Details

Subject(s)

• Music—Performance [Browse]

Film director

• Soulard, Isabelle [Browse]

Performer

• Morrison, Hannah [Browse]
• Allan, Miriam [Browse]
• Clayton, Sean [Browse]
• Gautrot, Marie [Browse]
• Florissants, Les Arts [Browse]
• Abadie, Lisandro, 1974- [Browse]

Conductor

• Agnew, Paul [Browse]

Related name

• CLC Productions [Browse]
• Les Arts Florissants [Browse]

Contains

Monteverdi, Claudio. Primo libro de madrigali, a cinque voci. [Browse]

Summary note

The Arts Florissants begin to perform Monteverdi's complete madrigals at the Cité de la Musique: the First Book in this concert. Written in 1587, Monteverdi's First Madrigals Book is dedicated to the count Marco Verità, poet and patron of the arts in Verona. Monteverdi was nineteen years old then, and might have wanted to work for him -- his dedication offers the count a set of "young compositions," compared with "spring flowers." The book bears the marks of Marenzio's pastoral influence, and Luzzaschi's dissonant writing style -- this is evident with Baci soavi e cari, composed after a poem by Guarini. One of the best-known pieces from the book is, with no doubt, The vaga pastorella, which opens on a series of jumps describing the shepherdess in a field, before the music slides into introspection. Here as elsewhere, joy alternates with the tears: in Filli cara ed amata, the exclamation Ahi! ("alas!") results in a few bars of strong dissonances. This concert opened the complete Monteverdi Madrigals series performed by Les Arts Florissants conducted by Paul Agnew at the Cité de la Musique, the théâtre de Caen and the Valladolid Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes. Les Arts Florissants are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, la Ville de Caen and the Région Basse-Normandie. They are in residency at the théâtre de Caen. Imerys is the great benefactor of Les Arts Florissants.

Time and place of event

Recorded 2011 Former Cité de la musique, Paris, France.

Source of description

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Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Hannah Morrison, soprano ; Miriam Allan, soprano ; Sean Clayton, tenor ; Marie Gautrot, contralto ; Les Arts Florissants ; Paul Agnew, conductor ; Lisandro Abadie, bass.

Contents

Primo libro de madrigali, a cinque voci / Claudio Monteverdi.

OCLC

1461919523

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