Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda

On this CD:

1. Tempro la cetra, madrigal for tenor & strings (from Book 7), SV 117 Tempro la Cetra
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

2. Quel sguardo sdegnosetto, madrigal for soprano (from Scherzi musicali), SV 247/1
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

3. Interrotte speranze, madrigal for 2 voices (from Book 7), SV 132 Interrotte Speranze
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

4. Bel pastor dal cui bel guardo, dialogue of a nymph & a shepherd for soprano & tenor (from Book 9), SV 168 Bel Pastor
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

5. Con che soavità, labbra odorate, madrigal for soprano and instruments (from Book 7), SV 139 Con Che Soavità
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

6. Et è pur dunque vero, madrigal for soprano (from Scherzi musicali), SV 250
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

7. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, dramatic cantata (from Book 8), SV 153 Compatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Cettina Cadelo, Concerto Ensemble, Carlo Gaifa, Roberto Gini, Vincenzo Manno, Paul Beier, Caterina Dell'Agnello

Tracks:

Madrigali guerrieri: Altri canti d'Amor: Sinfonia - Altri canti d'Amor
Madrigali guerrieri: Altri canti d'Amor: Tu Cui tessuta han di Cesare alloro
Madrigali guerrieri: Hor che'l ciel: Hor che'l ciel, e la terra, e'l vento tace
Madrigali guerrieri: Hor che'l ciel: Cosi sol d'una chiara fonte viva
Madrigali guerrieri: Gira il nemico insidioso
Madrigali guerrieri: Se vittorie si belle
Madrigali guerrieri: Armato il cor
Madrigali guerrieri: Ogni amante e guerrier
Madrigali guerrieri: Ogni amante e guerrier: Io che nell'otio naqui e d'otio vissi
Madrigali guerrieri: Ogni amante e guerrier: Ma per quel ampio Egeo spieghi le vele
Madrigali guerrieri: Ardo, ardo, avvampo
Madrigali guerrieri: Volgendo il ciel
Madrigali guerrieri: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Tancredi, che Clorinda un homo stima
Madrigali guerrieri: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Non schivar, non parar, non pur ritrarsi
Madrigali guerrieri: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Tre volte il cavalier la donna stringe
Madrigali guerrieri: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Torna l'ira nei cori, e li trasporta
Madrigali guerrieri: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: Amico, hai vinto: io ti perdon...perdona

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Madrigali amorosi: Altri canti di Marte
Madrigali amorosi: Altri canti di Marte: Due begli occhi fur l'armi
Madrigali amorosi: Mentre vaga Angioletta
Madrigali amorosi: Ardo e scoprir
Madrigali amorosi: O sia tranquillo il mare
Madrigali amorosi: Ninfa, che scalza il piede
Madrigali amorosi: Dolcissimo uscignolo
Madrigali amorosi: Chi vol haver felice
Madrigali amorosi: Lamento della ninfa: Non havea Febo ancora
Madrigali amorosi: Lamento della ninfa: Amor, dicea, il ciel
Madrigali amorosi: Perche t'en fuggi, o Fillide
Madrigali amorosi: Non partir ritrosetta
Madrigali amorosi: Su, su, su, pastorelli vezzosi
Madrigali amorosi: Vago augelletto

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"Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi" ("Madrigals Warlike and Amorous") is how Claudio Monteverdi titled his eighth and largest book of madrigals--which was actually two volumes in one. The "warlike madrigals" (concerned largely with the "war of love") feature the "agitated style" Monteverdi pioneered: quick, almost nervous writing, lots of rapidly repeated notes, and more syllables than a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song. These works culminate in the famous short quasi-opera Il Combattimento de Tancredi e Clorinda. The "amorous madrigals" are no less ardent, but they are less, well, warlike--that is, more leisurely paced, with plenty of chromaticism, dissonant suspensions, and giddily virtuosic runs to depict the pain and excitement of love.

Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby, and the Consort of Musicke made these recordings in the early 1990s. While the performances were widely admired in their day, they're now universally considered (at least by those of us who actually spend time thinking about such things) to have been superseded by the remarkable work of Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano. It's true that some of the singing on the Consort's first disc is lackluster, but things perk right up with the young Paul Agnew's solo in Volgendo il ciel followed by an energetic Combattimento. Everyone's back in fine form for the "amorous" madrigals on the second disc; particularly notable are the virtuoso turns for Agnew, Andrew King, and Alan Ewing, as well as the Divine Miss Emma. Yes, Concerto Italiano is preferable if you can afford both of the full-price discs, but at the bargain price Virgin is charging for these reissues, you'll get more than your money's worth. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

Mature Monteverdi at his best!.......2000-05-11

This interpetation of the 8th (and last) book of madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi is the best I've heard. Nine perfectly balanced voices with clear but restrained period instrumentation show off the music in its polyphonic and chromatic brilliance. Solo passages are sung with great attention to the phrasing and dynamic possibilities inherent in the score. The overall effect is one of intimate brilliance.

The enginnering of the recording was excellent. The only disapointment was a dearth of information about the text of the score.

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Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda

Monteverdi - Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi / Concerto Köln, Jacobs

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At times, great and at other times...well... er.....
Monteverdi used 'cornets'?!

Monteverdi - Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi / Concerto Köln, Jacobs
Salomé Haller , Maria Cristina Kiehr , Jeremy Ovenden , and Concerto Köln
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ASIN: B00006L7TB
Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

Altri Canti D'Amore, Tenero Arciero
Hor Che 'L Ciel E La Terra E 'L Vento Tace
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore
Se Vittorie Si Belle
Armato Il Cor D'adamantina Fede
Ogni Amante E Guerrier: Nel Suo Gran Regno
Ardo, Avvampo
Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda
Introdutione Al Ballo E Ballo
Altri Canti Di Marte E Di Sua Schiera

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Vago Augelletto
Mentre Vaga Angioletta
Ardo E Scoprir, Ahi Lasso, Io Non Ardisco
O Sia Tranquillo Il Mare O Pien D'orgoglio
Ninfa Che, Scalza Il Piede
Dolcissimo Uscignolo
Chi Vol Haver Felice E Lieto Il Core
Lamento Della Ninfa. Non Havea Febo Ancora
Perche Ten Fuggi, O Fillide
Non Partir, Ritrosetta
Su, Su, Su, Pastorelli Vezzosi
De L'implacabil Dio
Udite, Donne, Udite!
Bella Madre D'Amor
Ecco Ver Noi L'addolorate Squadre
Ahi Troppo Ahi Troppo E Duro!

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You might think that two-and-a-half hours of Monteverdi madrigals would become tiresome or repetitive, but think again: here is a composer whose ability to combine voices and instruments (actually, it's conductor Rene Jacobs who, for the most part, has chosen the instruments, which include strings, trombones, cornets, organ, and percussion--brilliantly, colorfully, and dramatically) became greater as he aged, and these are among his latest works. Some pieces are long and dramatic, indeed, operatic: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is sung to us by baritone Victor Torres with such urgency that it might be compared with an old Orson Welles radio drama. The subtitle of the collection—"Madrigals of War and Love"--really tells it all; fascinatingly, the warring within a lover's breast is just as passionate as true battle. The texts, some by such luminaries as Petrarch and Tasso are as worthy as the music, and Monteverdi's great gift--his ability to wed words to music--is in evidence in all of these works. Emotions run from self-pity to adoration to rage, and Jacobs and his band of singers--every one a virtuoso--make each come to life. Their technical skill, comprising seemingly endless breath, stunning legato, and every embellishment known to the Renaissance and Baroque, is matched by the loveliness and expressive quality of their tone. This is a perfect collection, ravishingly conceived, recorded, and performed. --Robert Levine

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At times, great and at other times...well... er............2003-08-27

First things first.
'Cornet', with a single T, is a perfectly acceptable spelling of the word for the Baroque cornetto - cornett, cornetta, cornèta, Kornett, cornet à bouquin, corno, cornio, Zink, Zinge, Zinggen and Recht Chor-Zink (et cetera) are all historical variations. The spelling with the single T was the original spelling - the double T spelling was adopted in the 20th century to save confusion with the cornett's modern brass band name sake.

Okay! So what's this CD like?
Well, its pretty good and much of it is very good. The music is 'orchestrated' with cornet(t)s, trombones, a dulcian and percussion - as well as the violins, viols and continuo mentioned by the composer. Maybe René Jacobs is suggesting that this music might have been performed like this for an aristocratic audience? Maybe, maybe not, however, Monteverdi and/or his publisher only suggest strings and continuo in the instrumental forces needed to perform this music. The cornetts and sackbuts sound splendid in madrigals like 'Altri canti d'Amor' even if their inclusion would have surprised Claudio Monteverdi! The string and continuo groups play very well and very idiomatically.

This brings us to the question of the voices used. Some of the singers are simply too operatic in their approach for this kind of music. One of the tenors sings in a highly charged way that would not be out of place in 19th century Italian opera. Bernarda Fink, as usual, uses too much vibrato - more than one would reasonably expect in a modern performance of Mozart or, indeed, Verdi - let alone Monteverdi! However, there is some great singing here, too - Maria Cristina Kiehr is an excellent Monteverdian. When the voices all sing together, as in 'Altri Canti d'Amore', the voices tend to jar and there is little sense of ensemble. We are presented with a group of not terribly compatible soloists singing together rather than a traditional madrigal vocal ensemble. Of course, this is my response to this recording and others may be delighted with this approach.

This is the first truly complete L'ottavo libro de madrigali available in one set on two CDs and for that reason it is a worthy introduction to this music.

Alessandrini's group and Anthony Rooley's The Consort of Musicke have also recorded these works and I have enjoyed all these different interpretations. Jacobs can be perverse and wayward in his interpretations but he can also make the music sing and dance like no one else. I will continue to enjoy most of his opera recordings and most of this madrigal set.

Monteverdi used 'cornets'?!.......2003-04-02

Though I have not listened to this particular CD of Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri et amoroso, I'm certain that cornets, the modern small brass instrument used in marching bands would not be appropriate. A cornett (or cornetti) the Renaissance wind instrument, made of wood and covered in leather, was used by Monteverdi, and would be quite appropriate, and I think that is what is being used in the CD.

Monteverdi: Il ballo delle ingrate; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Ballo 'Movete'; Altri canti d'Amor

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Monteverdi: Il ballo delle ingrate; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Ballo 'Movete'; Altri canti d'Amor

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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ASIN: B00026W66I
Release Date: 2004-08-10

Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 8 "Madrigali guerrieri"

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Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 8 "Madrigali guerrieri"

Manufacturer: Tactus Records
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Tracks:

Sinf Che Va Inanci Al Madrigal Che Segue
Altri Canti D'amor, Tenero Arciero: Altri Canti D'amor, Tenero Arciero
Altri Canti D'amor, Tenero Arciero: Di Marte Io Canto
Altri Canti D'amor, Tenero Arciero: Tu, Cui Tessuta Han Di Cesareo Alloro
Altri Canti D'amor, Tenero Arciero: Che Mentre Guerre Canta
Or Che'l Cielo E La Terra E'l Vento Tace: Or Che'l Cielo E La Terra
Or Che'l Cielo E La Terra E'l Vento Tace: Cosi Sol D'una Chiara Fonte Viva Parte Seconda
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore: Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore Parte Prima
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore: Nol Lasciamo Accostar Parte Seconda
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore: Armi False Non Son Terza Parte
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore: Vuol Degli Occhi Attaccar Il Baloardo Parte Quarta
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore: Non E Piu Tempo Ohime Parte Quinta
Gira Il Nemico Insidioso Amore: Cor Mio Non Val Fuggir Parte Sesta
Ogni Amante E Guerrier: Ogni Amante E Guerrier
Ogni Amante E Guerrier: Io Che Nell'otio Nacqui
Ogni Amante E Guerrier: Ma Per Quel Ampio Egeo
Ogni Amante E Guerrier: Riedi
Ardo Avvampo: Ardo Avvampo
Ardo Avvampo: Son Due Belli Occhi Il Ladro
Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda: Tancredi Che Clorinda Un Homo Stima
Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda: Notte Che Nel Profondo Oscuro Seno
Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda: Non Schivar (Principio Della Guerra)
Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda: L'un L'altro Guarda
Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda: Torna L'ira Nei Cori E Li Trasporta (Guerra)
Combattimento Di Tancredi Et Clorinda: Amico Hai Vinto
Intro Al Ballo: Entrata Con Doi Violini/Volgendo Il Ciel Per L'immortal Sentiero
Ballo A Cinque Voci Con Doi Violini: Movete Al Mio Bel Suon
Ballo A Cinque Voci Con Doi Violini: Brando (Salomone Rossi)
Ballo A Cinque Voci Con Doi Violini: Ei L'armi Cinse

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Monteverdi: Madrigali

Manufacturer: EMI Classics Imports
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ASIN: B000093U3L
Release Date: 2004-02-03

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Manufacturer: Opus 111
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The Pilgrimage Of The Rose: Was Kilingen Denn Die Horner/Im Hause Des Mullers - Chor Musicus Koln/Christoph Spering
Ottavo Libro De' Madrigali: Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda - Con Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini
Hortus Deliciarum: Let Leta Concio - Discantus/Brigitte Lesne
Die Kunst Der Fuge - Flanders Recorder Qt
Vespro: Dixit Dominus - Cappella De'Turchini/Antonio Florio
Mit Ganczem Willen/Ho, Ho, Ho! - Alla Francesca
Sinf in D - Musica Petropolitana
Stabat Mater: Fac Ut Portem Christi Mortem/Inflammatus Et Accensus - Sara Mingardo/Gemma Bertangnoli
Cantigas De Santa Maria: Ontre Todalas Vertudes - Micrologus
All The Angels Exult - Russian Patriarchate Chor
Stabat Mater: Juxtra Crucem Tecum Stare - Sara Mingardo
Trio Pathetique in d - Olga Tverskaya/Colin Lawson/Alberto Grazzi/Norbert Blume/Adrian Chandler
Do Not Ask Me - Lina Mkrtchyan/Evgeny Talisman
The Pigrimage Of The Rose: Es'was Der Rose Erster Schmerz/Wie Blatter Am Baum - Chor Musicus Koln/Christoph Spering

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Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda
Monteverdi , Mcgegan , and Capella Savaria
Manufacturer: Hungaroton
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ASIN: B00005YMHP
Release Date: 1994-04-18