Lamenti Barocchi, Vol. 2

Marcello, Benedetto;
Monteverdi, Claudio;
Strozzi, Barbara;
Rossi, Luigi;
Bassani, Giovanni Battista

Vartolo, Sergio;
San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists

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The lament plays an important part in Baroque vocal repertoire, with an earlier literary and musical counterpart in the sixteenth century madrigal. In early opera one of the most influential such compositions was Monteverdi's Lament of Arianna, a work that survives from a lost opera on the subject of Ariadne, deserted by Theseus on the island of Naxos. Monteverdi adapted the lament as a madrigal, following contemporary practice, and later, towards the end of his life, gave it a sacred text. In 1638, in his eighth book of madrigals, he provided another notable lament in his Lamento della ninfa, one of his Canti amorosi, the counterpart of the Canti guerrieri that form the first part of the collection. The lament itself, based on the distinctive and increasingly customary descending four notes in the bass, is framed by sections for two tenors and bass.

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Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

10-06-1996

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