Concert vocal
Gesualdo - Madrigals, Book 2
Complete cycle
Gesualdo - Madrigals, Book 2
Complete cycle
Ensemble
Les Arts Florissants
Musical Direction and tenor
Cast
Miriam ALLAN, soprano
Hannah MORRISON, soprano
Lucile RICHARDOT, contralto
Sean CLAYTON, tenor
Edward GRINT, bass
Musical Editions:
Les Arts Florissants (Pascal Duc)
Program
Orlando DI LASSO - Concupiscendo concupiscit
Pomponio NENNIA - Candida man ti bacio
Pomponio NENNIA - Se taccio il duol s’avanza
Claudio MONTEVERDI - O come è gran martire
Cipriano de RORE - Anchor che col partire
Luca MARENZIO - Non è questa la mano
Michelangelo ROSSI - Alma afflitta, che fai ?
Michelangelo ROSSI - Occhi, un tempo mia vita
Carlo GESUALDO - Maria mater gratiae
Carlo GESUALDO - Reminiscere miserationum
Entracte
Carlo GESUALDO - Caro amoroso neo
Carlo GESUALDO - Ma se tale ha costei
Carlo GESUALDO - Hai rotto, e sciolto, e spento a poco a poco
Carlo GESUALDO - Se per lieve ferita
Carlo GESUALDO - Che sentir deve il petto mio che langue
Carlo GESUALDO - In più leggiadro velo
Carlo GESUALDO - Se così dolce è il duolo
Carlo GESUALDO - Ma se avverrà ch'io moia
Carlo GESUALDO - Se taccio, il duol s’avanza
Carlo GESUALDO - O come è gran martire
Carlo GESUALDO - O mio soave ardore
Carlo GESUALDO - Sento che nel partire
Carlo GESUALDO - Non è questa la mano
Carlo GESUALDO - Né tien face, o saetta
Carlo GESUALDO - Candida man, qual neve, a gl'occhi offerse
Carlo GESUALDO - Dalle odorate spoglie
Carlo GESUALDO - E quell'arpa felice
Carlo GESUALDO - Non mai, non cangerò
Carlo GESUALDO - All'apparir di quelle luci ardenti
Carlo GESUALDO - Non mi toglia il ben mio
Following the success of Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Paul Agnew and his team of singers will now dedicate three years to the earlier madrigals of Carlo Gesulado, author of both some of the most traditional 5 part madrigals ever written and of some of the most extreme vocal chamber works in the history of composition.
“Count Gesualdo was a self-proclaimed violent murderer, a devout and repenting Christian, a nobleman and a published composer all at the same time. A complex and contradictory character, he played a key role in a turning point in the history of music at the beginning of the 17th century, contributing some of the fundamental elements which will secure a place for new, dramatic and modern music – la seconda prattica.
In 2018 we undertake the first step in a cycle of the six books of madrigals. We will attempt to place them in their context by associating them with music of their contemporaries and retracing the emergence of the chromatic madrigal, trying to understand how Gesualdo finally came to write at the very end of his life, music which today continues to shock and fascinate.
Sometimes treated as a mad man having lost all sense of reason, Gesualdo was indeed an artist who followed a compositional logic and contributed to enlarging and pushing the possibilities of musical expression to its limits.”
Paul Agnew
This concert is part of a complete cycle of Gesualdo madrigals being performed during three seasons by Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew in partnership with la Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris.
Previous dates
Ubeda / Spain
Ciudad de ubeda
- Friday, June 21 2019, 9pm, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza 'Ciudad de Úbeda'
Madrid / Spain
Auditorio Nacional de Música
- Friday, June 7 2019, 7.30pm
Paris / France
Amphithéâtre de la Cité de la musique
- Wednesday, June 5 2019, 8.29pm
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