Concert
Monteverdi, from profane to sacred
Monteverdi, from profane to sacred
Ensemble
Choir of Les Arts Florissants
Musical direction
Cast
Ellen GIACONE, soprano
Maud GNIDZAZ, soprano - (Bruxelles)
Violaine LE CHENADEC, soprano - (Pontoise)
Juliette PERRET, soprano
Marine CHAGNON, mezzo-soprano - (Pontoise)
Mathilde ORTSCHEIDT, mezzo-soprano - (Bruxelles)
Mélodie RUVIO, mezzo-soprano
Bastien RIMONDI, tenor
Sean CLAYTON, tenor - (Bruxelles)
Nicholas SCOTT, tenor - (Pontoise)
Marcio SOARES-HOLANDA, tenor
Cyril COSTANZO, bass
Matthieu WALENDZIK, bass
Florian CARRÉ, orgue
Program
Giovanni GABRIELI - Intonatione del quinto tono
Claudio MONTEVERDI - O Jesu mia vita
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Cantemus laeti quae Deus efficit
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Maria quid ploras ad monumentum
Girolamo FRESCOBALDI - Toccata Settima
Claudio MONTEVERDI - O gloriose martyr
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Jesu dum te contemplor [d'après Cor mio mentre vi miro]
Claudio MONTEVERDI - O Stellae coruscantes
Claudio MERULO DA CORREGIO - Toccata Settima
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Rutilante in nocte exultant
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Luce serena lucent
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Sancta Maria quae Christum peperisti
Luzzasco LUZZASCHI - Fantasia a quattro sopra Ave Maris Stella
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Qui laudes tuas cantat
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Stabat Virgo Maria
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
Girolamo FRESCOBALDI - Toccata avanti il Ricercar
Girolamo FRESCOBALDI - Recercar con obligo di cantare la quinta parte senza toccarla
Claudio MONTEVERDI - Felle amaro me potavit populus
"Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew are in their element and know how to draw from this music all the elegance it requires." Classica
A connoisseur of Monteverdi, whose complete madrigals he conducted, Paul Agnew invites us to rediscover this repertoire in an unusual light, with a program devoted to "contrafacta". These "forgeries", elaborated by Aquilino Coppini, are nothing other than adaptations of Monteverdi's madrigals to sacred texts. The music remains unchanged, but the poetic treatment is of the highest interest: Coppini, in an astonishing exercise of rhetoric, has shaped the sacred texts to bend them to the accents, rhythms and sonorities of the original secular texts whose resolutely erotic content finds, under his pen, a striking translation of religious ecstasy. This passage from the profane to the sacred is an opportunity to admire the extraordinary plasticity of Monteverdi's writing, which allows two very different readings of the same music.
"It is sacred music, but it retains its liveliness, its passion, its dissonance: a combination of things that makes it even more alive." Paul Agnew
Previous dates
Brussels / Belgium
Bozar - Eglise St-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg
- Thursday, November 24 2022, 8pm
Pontoise / France
Festival baroque de Pontoise
- Friday, October 1 2021
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