Track Listings
| 1. Libro III - "Merce!" grido, piangendo | ||
| 2. Libro V - Voi dissi e sospirando | ||
| 3. Libro VIII - Alme luci beate | ||
| 4. Libro VIII - Io vi lascio, mie scorte | ||
| 5. Libro V - Sospir che del bel petto | ||
| 6. Libro I - Crud' Amarilli | ||
| 7. Libro VIII - Se tu, Silvio crudel | ||
| 8. Libro VIII - Ma se con la pieta | ||
| 9. Libro VIII - Dorinda, ah! Diro "mia" | ||
| 10. Libro VIII - Ferir quel petto, Silvio? | ||
| 11. Libro VIII - Silvio, come son lassa | ||
| 12. Libro III - "Lasso!", dicea Fileno | ||
| 13. Libro III - Ombrose e care selve | ||
| 14. Le Musiche Libro V - Ancidetemi pur, dogliosi affanni | ||
| 15. Libro IV - Strana armonia d'amore | ||
| 16. Libro IV - In cio sol differenti | ||
| 17. Le Musiche Libro IV - Che veggio ohime, che miro? | ||
| 18. Le Musiche Libro II - La mia Filli crudel | ||
| 19. Le Musiche Libro II - Ecco Filli, mia bella | ||
| 20. Libro III - Deh, chi mi fa languire |
Editorial Reviews
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The Sicilian nobleman Sigismondo d'India was roughly contemporary with Monteverdi (both began their careers around 1600); the musical ferment of that period led, in d'India's case, to a very heady brew. His madrigals--duets, solos and five-voice works--are like inebriated Monteverdi: d'India set the Italian poetic texts (usually dealing with a lover's pain) with even less regard for academic counterpoint and even more surprising twists of harmony than did his more-famous colleague, yet the music never veers into the disorienting, seemingly willful weirdness of Gesualdo. William Christie and Les Arts Florissants have made occasional forays into the music of 17th-century Italy before, but their real turf is the French Baroque--and on this disc, it shows. The fast passagework is blurred; the vibrato (from the sopranos in particular), while not wide by modern operatic standards, is sufficient to smudge d'India's searing dissonances. Some of the solo singing is interesting and the ensemble and tuning are perfectly good, but this listener doesn't sense much passion. Oddly, several of the madrigals are played by an ensemble of viols. Performance by instruments rather than singers is historically plausible, but why use the famously sober viol family for such ardent music from the period when the violin family was just coming into its own? Les Arts Florissants certainly don't dishonor themselves here, but their work is far from the exalted standard they set in, say, Charpentier. If you want to know how dramatic d'India's music can be, let the Italian singers of Daltrocanto show you. --Matthew Westphal
D'India - Madrigals / Révidat, V. Lucas, Wieczorek, Dugardin, Lescroart, Les Arts Florissants, Christie, Music, Sigismondo D'India, William Christie, Stéphanie Révidat, Violaine Lucas, Maryseult Wieczorek, Steve Dugardin, Étienne Lescroart, Francois Piolino, Matthieu Lécroart, Renaud Delaigue, Ensemble de Violes Orlando Gibbons, Les Arts Florissants, Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Classical Vocals, Madrigal, Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Vocal, Vocal Music
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