Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

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Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

This Italian composer bridged the 16th and 17th centuries—the eras of madrigal songs and opera arias. He wrote nine books of the former, leaving his mark with harmonic ingenuity and more than a dozen operas, only three of which survive. The horns that introduce 1607's L'Orfeo reveal the form's original purpose: pomp in celebration of the Gonzaga court. By 1642, opera was a popular medium, with sensuality taking centre stage, as Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea demonstrates. (Courtly types also started to come in for some mockery.) Listen and discover the roots of classical song.

I. Deus in adiutorium

Dunedin Consort, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Butt, Joshua Ellicott

2:20

Dal Mio Permesso Amato

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Monica Piccinini

5:11

Zefiro torna, e di soavi accenti

Barokksolistene, I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

6:13

Cruda Amarilli (Live)

2:54

1. Tancredi, che Clorinda un homo stima

John Mark Ainsley, Catherine Bott, Andrew King, Philip Pickett, New London Consort

3:11

Il ballo delle ingrate, SV 167

Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml

5:18

Pur ti miro (Poppea, Nerone)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Sylvia McNair, Dana Hanchard

4:09

Beatus vir primo, SV 268

Krijn Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche

7:10

Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

5:28

No. 7, Possente spirto, e formidabil nume

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea, Valerio Contaldo

8:29

Dixit Dominus a 6

English Baroque Soloists, Ann Monoyios, Mark Tucker, Alastair Miles, Nigel Robson, Bryn Terfel, Marinella Pennicchi, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

7:12

Lamento d'Arianna

Hespèrion XXI, Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall

11:34

V. O chiome d'or, neve gentil del seno

Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants

2:18

Addio, Roma! Addio, patria! Amici, addio!

Magdalena Kožená, Andrea Marcon, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

4:24

Sonata sopra Sancta Maria a 1

Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh

6:39

Dixit Dominus secondo, SV 264

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

7:47

'Io che nell'otio naqui e d'otio vissi'

Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

7:38

Concerto - Audi coelum

Taverner Consort, David Thomas, Andrew Parrott, Dame Emma Kirkby, Taverner Choir, Nigel Rogers, Rogers Covey-Crump

7:32

Lætaniæ della Beata Vergine a sei voci, SV 204

Odhecaton, Paolo Da Col

11:10

Sí ch'io vorrei morire, SV 89

Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini

3:40

No. 1, Sonnet by an Anonymous "Altri canti d'Amor, tenero arciero"

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

9:54

Ohime Ch'io Cado

Roberto Gini, Ensemble Concerto

3:57

Sinfonia

Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain

1:28

Deposuit potentes

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

2:27