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Flaming Heart
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
(1567-1643)
1.
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)
2.
Luci serene e chiare
3:48
from Il quarto libro de madrigali (1603)
Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Giles Underwood
3.
Anima mia, perdona
5:21
from Il quarto libro de madrigali (1603)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Giles Underwood
4.
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)
5.
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)
6.
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)
7.
Sinfonia
1:21
from Orfeo (1607)
Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Louise Hogan, Richard Campbell, Jan Spencer
8.
Ch'io t'ami
8:02
from Il quinto libro de madrigali (1605)
Anna Crookes, Carys Lane, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Giles Underwood
9.
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 Hollingworthdirector
9-11 January 2006
Notes
Monteverdi: Flaming Heart I Fagiolini celebrate their 20th anniversary after being awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society British Ensemble award with another great recording of Monteverdi. In this series they have introduced a new approach to the complete edition starting with LOrfeo and continuing with the very best of his works for capella ensemble, soloists and strings. A Monteverdi for both 16th and 21st centuries the Early Music Review magazine said Anyone who has ever loved and lost cannot fail to be moved by this
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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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