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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
(1567-1643)
1.
Sinfonia from 'Ballo delle ingrate'
1:30
from Madrigali guerrieri… Libro ottavo (1638)
Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Stefanie Heichelheim, Christopher Suckling
Continuo: Terence Charlston (harpsichord), Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), David Miller, Frances Kelly
2.
Ardo, avvampo
3:47
from Madrigali guerrieri… Libro ottavo (1638)
Carys Lane, Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Richard Wyn Roberts, Nicholas Mulroy, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Matthew Brook, Giles Underwood
Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber
Continuo: Terence Charlston (harpsichord), Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), David Miller
3.
Rimanti in pace
8:05
from Il terzo libro de madrigali (1592)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Greg Skidmore, Matthew Brook
Ogni amante è guerrier
13:16
from Madrigali guerrieri… Libro ottavo (1638)
Nicholas Mulroy, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Giles Underwood
Continuo: Steven Devine, Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), Richard Sweeney
4.
Ogni amante è guerrier, nel suo gran regno
4:40
5.
Io che nell'otio nacqui d d'otio vissi
6:47
6.
Ma per qual ampio Egeo spieghi le vele
0:37
7.
Riedi, ch'al nostro ardir, ch'al nostro canto
1:10
8.
Sí ch'io vorrei morire
3:40
from Il quatro libro de madrigali (1603)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Matthew Brook
9.
Che dar più vi poss'io?
2:57
from Il quinto de madrigali (1605)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Robert Hollingworth, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Giles Underwood
10.
E così, a poco a poco
3:18
from Il quinto libro de madrigali (1605)
Carys Lane and Nicholas Mulroy, with Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Hurdnall Smith, Giles Underwood
Continuo: Steven Devine, Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), Richard Sweeney
11.
Vorrei baciarti, o Filli
4:54
from Concerto. Settimo libro de madrigali (1619)
Robert Hollingworth, Clare Wilkinson
Continuo: Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), Richard Sweeney
12.
Chiome d'oro
3:04
from Concerto. Settimo libro de madrigali (1619)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson
Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber
Continuo: Terence Charlston (harpsichord), Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), David Miller, Frances Kelly
13.
Batto, qui pianse Ergasto
3:48
from Il sesto libro de madrigali (1614)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Robert Hollingworth, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Matthew Brook
Continuo: Steven Devine, Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), Richard Sweeney
14.
Entrata from 'Ballo delle ingrate'
1:44
from Madrigali guerrieri… Libro ottavo (1638)
Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Stefanie Heichelheim, Richard Campbell, Christopher Suckling
Continuo: Terence Charlston (harpsichord), Lynda Sayce (chitarrone), David Miller, Frances Kelly
Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata
14:52
Sestina from Il sesto libro de madrigali (1614)
Anna Crookes, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Matthew Brook
15.
Incenerite spoglie, avara tomba
2:07
16.
Ditelo, o fiumi, e voi ch'udiste Glauco
1:51
17.
Darà la notte il sol lume alla terra
2:12
18.
Ma te raccoglie, o Ninfa, in grembo il Cielo
2:39
19.
O chiome d'or, neve gentil del seno
2:26
20.
Dunque, amatge reliquie, un mar di pianto
3:34
Tirsi e Clori
13:55
Ballo from Concerto. Settimo libro de madrigali (1619)
Anna Crookes, Carys Lane (Clori), Clare Wilkinson, Lucy Ballard, Richard Wyn Roberts, Nicholas Mulroy, Nicholas Hurndall Smith (Tirsi), Eamonn Dougan, Matthew Brook, Giles Underwood
Violins: Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Stefanie Heichelheim, Richard Campbell, Christopher Suckling
Continuo: Terence Charlston (harpsichord/virginals), Lynda Sayce (chitarrone/treble lute), David Miller, Frances Kelly
Percussion: Gillian McDonagh
21.
Tirsi: Per monti e per valli
5:04
22.
Il ballo: Balliamo, che il gregge
8:50
78:55
Chamber: I Fagiolini
Conductor:Robert Hollingworth director
26, 27 February and 20 September 2007
Notes
MONTEVERDI:
FIRE AND ASHES
This is the second volume of Monteverdi’s vocal chamber music compiled with wit and imagination by Robert Hollingworth. We can trace Monteverdi’s evolution from the early Mantuan a cappella madrigals that made his reputation, right through to the late concerted madrigals of the 1630s, written for the Viennese court. The styles are worlds apart yet forged by the same desire to confront and master the tension between art and real life. I Fagiolini perform with style and commitment. The critics said of Vol. 1, ‘I Fagiolini are most seductive and persuasive in Monteverdi… Frankly you won’t hear madrigals better sung’.
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Reviews
The singing and playing are wonderfully sensitive and acute. It’s classy, provocative stuff
The Guardian
This is a disc to be relished as much for its sudden contrasts as for the ensemble’s unfailingly spirited, idiomatic performances… In terms of expressive range, I Fagiolini is without equal.
Independent on Sunday
‘Rimanti in pace’ is an early masterpiece from Book 3, sung with the tenderest of touches at the melting harmonies, and the ‘Lagime d’amante’ (book 6) – written in memory of Caterina Martinelli who died of smallpox before she could take the title role inMonteverdi’s ’Arianna’ - is given the most persuasive of performances I have heard of this piece.
BBC Music Magazine
Under Robert Hollingworth’s inspired direction, the five singers squeeze all the emotion possible out of the suspensions, both diatonic and chromatic. The same five are equally passionate in the sorrowful ‘Lagrmime d’amante’. The disc ends with the ballo ’Trisi e Clori’: here Hollingworth varies the scoring to excellent effect. Another unmissable disc, then.
Gramophone
I Fagiolini are surely unequalled in their ability to project Monteverdi’s madrigals as miniature dramas… Such graphic outpourings of overwhelming emotion are perfectly complemented by more light-hearted pieces such as the delightful duet Chiome d’oro, with its captivatingly dancelike violin ritornello.
The Telegraph
Robert Hollingworth’s group offer more of their trademark imaginative programming in this second in a series working the crannies of Monteverdi’s madrigals. Plucking skilfully from most of the early master’s nine book’s of Madrigals, I Fagiolini garnish this secular repertoire with their usual fine musicianship and flair.
The Times
As the group’s director, Robert Hollingworth, mentions in his refreshingly honest booklet note, these works ‘never reveal all their secrets in any one performance’, although Fire and Ashes discloses Monteverdian secrets with almost embarrassing, certainly captivating, generosity.
Classic FM
The performances are dramatic, brilliant, expressive and well-sung
Early Music Review
The singers are permitted strong personalities and for me the music usually benefits from such a confident and animated standpoint. The instrumental forces employed – harpsichord, virginals, percussion, chitarrone, lute and harp – are carefully balanced, so as not to intrude but support I Fagiolini indulges fully here, yet manages to control a sense of the musical whole. This is an inventively constructed recording, which succeeds on its own terms in splicing together Monteverdi’s secular chamber works through a variety of milieu, here spanning the period 1592-1638.
International Record Review
This recording is quite a treat! The blunt sensuousness depicted on the CD sleeve effectively prepares the listener for the strikingly luscious and constantly varied sound dominating the recording. The opening Sinfonia from Ballo delle ingrate makes it clear that the singers of I Fagiolini are supported by a first-class instrumental ensemble Overall this is a first class recording and a must for any lover of Monteverdi.
Goldberg
*****
Musica (Italy)
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