Schütz: Italian Madrigals

Direction musicale

Paul Agnew

Ensemble

Les Arts Florissants

Cast

Miriam ALLAN, soprano
Hannah MORRISON, soprano
Mathilde ORTSCHEIDT, alto
Nicolas KUNTZELMAN, alto
Sean CLAYTON, tenor
Anicet CASTEL, bass
Jonathan SELLS, bass

Spectacles(s) lié(s)

Schütz - Italian Madrigals (2021-2022)

1611. After two years of study with Gabrieli in Venice, Heinrich Schütz tried his hand at composing madrigals on Italian poems. This mere ‘graduation exercise’ turned out to be a masterpiece: the young German composer demonstrated his ability to identify each nuance of the text with a different musical emotion, a refinement heightened here by the interpretation of Les Arts Florissants.