SCHERZI MUSICALI

Description

ORCHESTRA MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL
CREMONA ANTIQUA
Interpreti
Cristina Fanelli, soprano
Anna Bessi, mezzosoprano
Alessandro Ravasio, basso
Gian Andrea Guerra, violino primo
Lena Yokoyama, violino secondo
Nicola Brovelli, violoncello
Mauro Pinciaroli, tiorba
direzione e cembalo Antonio Greco
Programma
Damigella tutta bella (I libro), Claudio Monteverdi
Dolci miei sospiri (I), Claudio Monteverdi
Ciaccona, Tarquinio Merula
Quel sguardo sdegnosetto (II libro), Claudio Monteverdi
Eri già tutta mia (II), Claudio Monteverdi
Lidia spina (I), Claudio Monteverdi
La violetta (I), Claudio Monteverdi
Et è pur dunque vero (II), Claudio Monteverdi
Amorosa pupilletta (I), Claudio Monteverdi
Fugge il verno (I), Claudio Monteverdi
Canzon La Pusterla, Tarquinio Merula
Maledetto sia l’aspetto (Do) (II), Claudio Monteverdi
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The voices of Cristina Fanelli, Anna Bessi and Alessandro Ravasio, led by Antonio Greco, Principal Music Director of the Festival Monteverdi, take us to a Venetian salon of the early 17th century, for a concert of arias and madrigals from the Scherzi musicali (1632), which Monteverdi wrote in Venice, after leaving the court of the Gonzaga. At that time, the Serenissima was the city of cultural and political innovation, worldly and carnivalesque; and the experimental language, free and daring, of those madrigals is a bright mirror.