Giaches de Wert: Nono libro de madrigali

The Fleming Giaches de Wert spent almost his entire life in Italy at the Gonzaga court in Mantua. He was one of those great composers who are able to transcend fashions and create art that is destined to remain "constant and eternal". The Ninth Book of Madrigals, published in 1588 at a time of personal hardship and pain over his thwarted love for the poetess Tarquinia Molza, marks a high point of artistry and pathos. Wert explores Petrarch's Canzoniere alongside verses by Torquato Tasso, Jacopo Sannazaro and Battista Guarini. He alternates between luminous courtly homages and an innovative lyricism that anticipates the style of Carlo Gesualdo.

Works:

•Giaches de Wert: Or si rallegri il Cielo
•Giaches de Wert: L'anima mia ferita
• Giaches de Wert: Vago augelletto che cantando vai
•Giaches de Wert: Valle che de' lamenti miei se' piena
•Giaches de Wert: Quel rossignol, che sí soave piagne
•Giaches de Wert: Ecco che un'altra volta, o piagge apriche
•Giaches de Wert: Mia benigna fortuna e'l viver lieto
• Giaches de Wert: Sovra un bel cristallino e puro rivo
•Giaches de Wert: Un bacio solo à tante pene, hai, cruda?
•Giaches de Wert: Di morte già sentìa il fero ultimo dardo
•Giaches de Wert: Mesola, il Po da lato, e'l mar a fronte
•Giaches de Wert: O come vaneggiate, Donna
•Giaches de Wert: Ha Ninfe adorne, e belle
•Giaches de Wert: Padre del ciel, dopo i perduti giorni