Monteverdi: Monteverdi Series: 1

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CHAN 0730

Monteverdi: Monteverdi Series: 1

Running Time: 75:57

CD UPC: 0095115073025

Release Date: November 2006
Originally recorded in January 2006

Composer (1567-1643)
Claudio Monteverdi

Choral
I Fagiolini

Conductor director
Robert Hollingworth

Venue
Hertford College Chapel, Oxford

Producer
Rachel Smith

Engineer
John Taylor

Genre:
Choir

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Flaming Heart

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

(1567-1643)

Prologo: La Musica

5:42

from Orfeo (1607)

Clare Wilkinson

Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Louise Hogan, Richard Campbell, Jan Spencer

Continuo: David Miler, Eligio Quinteiro, Joy Smith, Matthew Halls (organ/harpsichord), Richard Campbell (lirone)

Luci serene e chiare

3:48

from Il quarto libro de madrigali (1603)

Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Giles Underwood

Anima mia, perdona

5:21

from Il quarto libro de madrigali (1603)

Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Giles Underwood

Tempro la cetra

9:17

from Concerto, Settimo libro de madrigali (1619)

Nicholas Mulroy

Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Louise Hoagan, Richard Campbell, Jan Spencer

Continuo: David Miller, Eligio Quinteiro, Joy Smith, Matthew Halls (organ/harpsichord)

Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro

5:15

from Il quinto libro de madrigali (1605)

Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Giles Underwood

Continuo: David Miller, Eligio Quinteiro, Joy Smith, Matthew Halls (organ)

Con che soavità

5:12

from Concerto. Settimo libro de madrigali (1619)

Clare Wilkinson

Choir I [continuo]: David Miller, Eligio Quinteiro

Choir II [violins]: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Louise Hogan, Jan Spencer, Catherine Pierron

Choir III [great bass viols]: Richard Campbell, Peter McCarthy, William Hunt, Matthew Hall (virginals)

Sinfonia

1:21

from Orfeo (1607)

Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Louise Hogan, Richard Campbell, Jan Spencer

Ch'io t'ami

8:02

from Il quinto libro de madrigali (1605)

Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Giles Underwood

Partenza amorosa

8:10

from Concerto. Settima libro de madrigali (1619)

Giles Underwood

Continuo: Eligio Quinteiro

10.

Parlo, miser'o taccio?

4:43

from Concerto. Settimo libro de madrigali (1619)

Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Giles Underwood

Continuo: David Miller, Eligio Quinteiro

11.

Volgando il ciel

10:59

from Madrigali guerrieri. . . Libro ottavo (1638)

Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Nicolas Mulroy (solo tenor), Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Giles Underwood

Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Richard Campbell

Continuo: David Miller, Eligio Quinteiro, Joy Smith, Matthew Halls (harpsichord)

12.

Longe de te, cor mio

2:59

from Il quarto libro de madrigali (1603)

Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Giles Underwood

13.

Piagn'e sospira

5:08

from Il quarto libro de madrigali (1603)

Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook

76:01

Choral: I Fagiolini

Conductor: Robert Hollingworth director

9-11 January 2006

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Reviews

On the Monteverdi performances:
…some of the most exquisitely intense vocal music ever written…

The Times

The result is undoubtedly an engaging and effective concert on disc that has gained much from I Fagiolini’s recent dramatised performances of the Fourth Book of Madrigals (soon to be issued on DVD).

BBC Music Magazine

Do not miss this wide-ranging survey on any account.

Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’

The performances are as beautiful as they are careful and stylish. The singers (there are seven in all) are highly expressive in solo stints and handsomely balanced in ensembles… This release guarantees both immediate and lasting satisfaction. It belongs in any decent Monteverdi collection.

American Record Guide

Engaging convincingly in the Italian baroque, the one-per-part singers sigh, plead and agonise like lovers in the unaccompanied choral recitatives (madrigals). Instruments are now part of the I Fagiolini fold now: solo madrigalists bathe in beautiful, moaning gut-strung violins, plunking chittarone and glittering harpsichord.

The Times

This is Monteverdi madrigal singing of the very highest order, bringing his whole kaleidoscope of emotions so vividly to life that the listener is drawn into the very heart of the music and enabled to experience something of the over-whelming impact which these sensational new pieces surely made on their first astonished hearers

Early Music Review

Monteverdi’s response to the pains and pleasures of love, is the proof it provides that the best way to convey the impression of spontaneity is to pay meticulous attention to detail. This is especially obvious in impassioned solos such as ‘Partenza amorosa’, an extended monologue in which Giles Underwood gives every word and note its proper, perfectly judged emphasis, and every phrase its proper pace and direction. In this way he conveys the fluctuations of the music’s emotional temperature, as hopeless, hushed heartbreak vies with violent outbursts of bitterness. Ensemble pieces benefit from the same approach… The singer’s fine performances are exquisitely enhanced by the continuo group’s rich sound and imaginative ornamentation.

Telegraph

Anyone who has ever loved and lost cannot fail to be moved by this.

Early Music Review

Though their repertoire stretches from ‘The Cries of London’ to improvised songs in Soweto, I Fagiolini are most seductive and persuasive in Monteverdi… Frankly you won’t hear madrigals better sung.

The Independent on Sunday

It’s put together with imagination, wit and profound admiration for the expressive power of Monteverdi’s word setting and every number is performed with the same combination of sterling values.

The Guardian

Whether in impassioned monologues or ecstatic ensemble pieces, I Fagiolini’s superbly responsive singing gives this collection of some of Monteverdi’s most vividly expressive madrigals a wonderful air of emotional spontaneity.

Telegraph ‘CDs of the year’

Critic’s Choice Richard Lawrence

Gramophone

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Flaming Heart

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

Prologo: La Musica

Luci serene e chiare

Anima mia, perdona

Tempro la cetra

Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro

Con che soavità

Sinfonia

Ch'io t'ami

Partenza amorosa

Parlo, miser'o taccio?

Volgando il ciel

Longe de te, cor mio

Piagn'e sospira

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