Title
Venezia
Musical direction
Paul Agnew, musical direction and tenor
Soloists
Miriam ALLAN: Soprano
Hannah MORRISON: Soprano
Mélodie RUVIO: Contralto
Sean CLAYTON: Tenor
Cyril COSTANZO: Bass
Musicians list
Violin: Myriam GEVERS, Sophie GEVERS-DEMOURES
Viola: Galina ZINCHENKO, Jean-Luc THONNERIEUX
Viola da gamba: Juliette GUIGNARD*
Harp: Nanja BREEDIJK*
Theorbo: Massimo MOSCARDO*
Harpsichord, organ: Florian CARRÉ*
* Basso continuo
Credits to be mentionned at the beginning of the program
Les Arts Florissants receives financial support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Département de la Vendée and the Pays de la Loire region.
The Ensemble has been in residence at the Philharmonie de Paris since 2015.
The Selz Foundation, American Friends of Les Arts Florissants and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank are Principal Sponsors.
Programme
Extracts from Books VII and VIII
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Settimo Libro de Madrigali (1619) (extracts):
Sinfonia – « Tempro la cetra »
« Al lume de le stelle »
« Chiome d’oro, bel tesoro »
« Interrotte speranze, eterna fede »
Lettera amorosa a voce sola : « Se i languidi miei sguardi »
« A quest’olmo, a quest’ombre ed a quest’onde »
Romanesca : « Ohimè, dov’è il mio ben? Dov’è il mio core? »
Ballo : « Per monti e per valli »
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Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi. Libro ottavo (1638) (extracts):
« Altri canti d'Amor, tenero arciero »
« Hor che 'l ciel, e la terra, e 'l vento tace » - Prima Parte
« Così sol d'una chiara fonte viva » - Seconda Parte
Lamento della ninfa
- « Non havea Febo ancora »
- « Amor dicea »
- « Sì tra sdegnosi pianti »
« Dolcissimo usignolo »
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
« Volgendo in ciel per immortal sentiero ». Ballo a 5 Voci con due violini
Score credits
Musical editions : Les Arts Florissants (Pascal Duc)
Presentation courte (brochures, sites Internet, etc.)
After Cremona and Mantova, Venezia ends the trilogy imagined by Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants on Monteverdi's madrigals. This program, designed as a collection of extracts from Books VII and VIII, displays some of the most beautiful arias composed by the maestro during his stay in the City of the Dodges, that was bound to influence deeply his future creations.
« This recording is the completion of our series dedicated to the madrigals of Monteverdi. Monteverdi was born in the autumn of the Renaissance and died when the Baroque period, as it came to be known, was already well established. He witnessed and was in part responsible for an extraordinary transformation in musical composition from the sonorous polyphony of the Ars Perfecta to the birth of modern dramatic music. On this recording we hear a selection of the music he published during the final period of his life in that most theatrical of cities, Venice. »
Paul Agnew
« With the Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi of Book VIII, especially the masterpieces Lamento della ninfa and the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, theatre reinforces the association of poetry with music. Les Arts Florissants give of these treasures a refined, sensitive, and incredibly vivid interpretation. »
Sophie Bourdais, Télérama, 8 mars 2017.
Photos and biographies of the soloists
Miriam ALLAN bio FR / bio EN / photo
Hannah MORRISON bio FR / bio EN / photo
Mélodie RUVIO bio FR / bio EN / photo
Sean CLAYTON bio FR / bio EN / photo
Cyril COSTANZO bio FR / bio EN / photo
Media
Youtube playlist Monteverdi - Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew
