Monteverdi: Madrigals of Love and Loss

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These are not easy pieces, but the opening ballet swings along with panache, and there is some excellent tenor solo singing in the first section. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Feb 2014
Catalogue No: CDA68019
Label: Hyperion
Length: 69 minutes

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Monteverdi: Volgendo il ciel (Ballo ‘Movete'), SV 154

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Thomas Walker (tenor)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Introduzione al ballo. Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero

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Ballo a 5 con doi violini. Movete al mio bel suon le piante snelle

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Merula: Ciaccona

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Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Monteverdi: Volgendo il ciel (Ballo ‘Movete'), SV 154

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Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Ballo a 5, seconda parte. Ei l'armi cinse, e su destrier alato

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Excerpt, Monteverdi: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV 153

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James Gilchrist (tenor)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Monteverdi: Or che’l ciel e la terra

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Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Monteverdi: Ohimè Dov'è Il Mio Ben

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Katherine Watson (soprano), Anna Dennis (soprano)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Monteverdi: Zefiro torna

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Arcangelo
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Monteverdi: Ohimè il bel viso (Book 6), SV 112

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Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen

Monteverdi: Sestina - Lagrimae d'Amante al sepolero dell'amata

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Arcangelo
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I. Incenerite spoglie, avara tomba

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II. Ditelo, o fiumi, e voi ch'udiste Glauco

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III. Darà la notte il sol lume alla terra

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IV. Ma te raccoglie, o ninfa, in grembo 'l cielo

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

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VI. Dunque, amate reliquie, un mar di pianto

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Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Arcangelo (in their first recording as a vocal and instrumental group) presents a selection from Monteverdi’s last three books of madrigals. These ardent and passionate works are microcosms of Monteverdi’s great operas, and among his most celebrated music.

Most of the madrigals of Book 6 (1614) are songs of parting and loss. Book 7 (1619) is entitled Concerto, meaning that all the works it contains require instrumental accompaniment. And Book 8 (1638) introduces the genere concitato—the ‘agitated’ manner that Monteverdi devised to convey the emotions of war, whether physical or psychological. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda sets an extended passage from Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Tasso’s text, set in the time of the first crusade, tells of the combat between the Christian knight Tancredi and the Saracen maiden Clorinda. Most of the action of the Combattimento is conveyed by a narrator (Testo—the text), sung here by celebrated tenor James Gilchrist.

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April 2014

These are not easy pieces, but the opening ballet swings along with panache, and there is some excellent tenor solo singing in the first section.

March 2014

All of Cohen's singers come from the world of opera, and it shows in performances that place the drama of le parole to the fore...But among so much vocal athleticism, it's still the instrumentalists that dominate...Arcangelo's musicians deploy rough-edged expressive risk-taking within a framework of complete stylistic control.

March 2014

The first impression given by the opening track on this disc is of enormous energy and breadth. There is some superb singing from the assured and polished tenor Thomas Walker, while even more impressive is the remarkably full-bodied sound and glorious instrumental textures from the dozen players

Early Music Today

Of the two emotional foci of the disc, the Combattimento and the Sestina, the former is the more draining listening, thanks to the thrilling, visceral singing of James Gilchrist, in whose narration is summoned up every sword clash, every colour of the night, and almost every exhausted breath. I can’t imagine better performances of the middle-of-the- programme madrigals.

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