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Sunday, January 24th, 2021 – 3 p.m.
On Demand until Sunday, January 31st, 2021 – 11:59 p.m.
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Published in 1638, the madrigals of Monteverdi’s Eighth Book are madrigals in name only. Completely redefining the polyphonic genre of the Renaissance, these exceptional works use a most diverse range of voices, while also calling for instruments, heralding the baroque cantata and its expression that so closely approaches the operatic form. Monteverdi described them as “guerrieri et amorosi”: what could be better for such an aesthetic program than to evoke the war of love… its assaults, its conquests, and its ravages of the heart.
Excerpts of The Eighth Book of madrigals by Monteverdi
Madrigal Altri canti d’Amor, tenero arciero
Madrigal Dolcissimo uscignolo
Madrigal Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace
Madrigal Armato il cor d’adamantina fede
Introdutione al ballo e ballo – intermède : Tarquinio Merula, Ballo detto Pollicio, op. 12 nº 24 (1637)
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Lamento della Ninfa
Madrigal Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo, ardo : accorrete
Marie Magistry et Stephanie Manias, soprano
Josée Lalonde, alto
Nils Brown et Michiel Schrey, tenor
Clayton Kennedy, bass
Laura Andriani et Guillaume Villeneuve, violin
Mélisande Corriveau, tenor viol
Susie Napper, bass viol
Sylvain Bergeron, theorbo
Andrew McAnerney, direction