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Composer:
Claudio Monteverdi

Artist(s):
Maria Cristina Kiehr
Stephan Macleod

Conductor:
Jean Marc Aymes

Background: In the preface to his eighth book of madrigals (1638), Monteverdi states that his oeuvre as a whole can be split into three distinct genres, which are determined by their place of performance: music for the theatre, the church, and the 'chamber'. Most of his da camera output consists of madrigals for five voices, eight books of which were published during his lifetime.

However, throughout his life, Monteverdi also practised other, less ambitious forms, to which he gave the name canzonette, arie or scherzi. Maria Cristina Kiehr and Concerto Soave here present a broad selection of these, from the canzonette published in 1584, when he was only seventeen but already a master of the prima prattica, to the two books of Scherzi musicali.

The Scherzi musicali of 1607 are a collection of entertainments written for the court of Mantua, to which Monteverdi had been attached since 1590. Overwhelmed by pressure of work, Claudio gave his brother Giulio Cesare the task of supervising their publication. The 1632 collection is considerably more sophisticated, tending towards the strophic aria and the stile recitativo of the madrigal.

CATALOGUE NR: HMC901855
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 11-Jul-2005

COMPOSER: Claudio Monteverdi
TITLE: Scherzi musicali
TRACKS: Fugge 'l verno de' dolori. Come faro cuor mio quando mi parto. Lidia spina del mio core. Damigella tutta bella. Quel sguardo sdegnosetto. Piu lieto il guardo. Et e pur dunque vero. Si dolce e 'l tormento. Clori amorosa. Ecco di dolci raggi. Lo che'armato sin hor. Eri gia tutta mia. Maledetto sia l'aspetto. Aria detta Balletto pour clavecin (Girolamo Frescobaldi), Quando sperai. Quando l'Alba in Oriente. Toccata arpeggiata (Anon. harp solo). Se i languidi miei sguardi. Lettera amorosa in genere rapresentativo. Ohime ch'io cado. De la bellezza le dovute lodi.
CONDUCTOR: Jean Marc Aymes
ARTISTS: Maria Cristina Kiehr   Stephan Macleod   Concerto Soave  

- Jul-2005 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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