Monteverdi: Il Terzo L... - Concerto Italiano - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

No one knows better than Rinaldo Alessandrini that Monteverdi's madrigals – to which he has dedicated a major part of his work and recor-dings over the past thirty years – were above all texts where the music was the servant, and not the mistress. This form of a cappella vocal poly-phony, responding sensitively to the inflections of a highly expressive poetry, was born in the full flowering of Renaissance humanism and deve-loped in the 17th century by composers such as Monteverdi, Marenzio and Gesualdo, before being supplanted by the opera. As the Italian maestro explains, in the Third Book of Madrigals we can already see how carefully the twenty-five-year-old Monteverdi chooses poetry, e.g. by Guarini and Tasso, which is capable of 'responding to the needs of the drama, of truth, humanity and emotionality, culminating at the end of his life in the lustrous triumph of his final works'.

Il terzo libro de’ madrigali a cinque voci Venezia, appresso Ricciardo Amadino, 1592

Tracklist

1. La Giovinetta Pianta
2. O Come H Gran Martmre
3. Sovra Tenere Erbette E Bianchi Fiori
4. O Dolce Anima Mia, Dunque H Pur Vero
5. Stracciami Pure Il Core
6. Rossignuol Che In Queste Verdi Fronde
7. Se Per Estremo Ardore
8. Vattene Pure, Crudel
9. O Primavera, Gioventu Dell'anno
10. Perfidissimo Volto
11. Ch'io Non T'ami, Cor Mio?
12. Occhi, Un Tempo Mia Vita
13. Vivro Fra I Miei Tormenti
14. Lumi, Miei Cari Lumi
15. Rimanti In Pace

Label: Believe Recordi | Origin: Holland

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