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SKU: HL.49015916
ISBN 9790220124518. UPC: 884088567606. 8.25x11.75x0.375 inches. Italian.
Like many Englishmen I had sung madrigals for pleasure - usually late at night with friends, after several glasses of wine. While these madrigals have their charm, and many are extremely beautiful, I found, as I began an extended exploration of the madrigal as a creative venture, that the richest source lies in the Italian Renaissance.In 1998 I embarked on a project to write a series of madrigals, eventually deciding to collect them in 'books' in the manner of Italian madrigalists, such as Monteverdi or Gesualdo. The Second Book is for an unusual six-part group - the Scandinavian Trio Mediaeval (3 sopranos) and three tenors (John Potter plus two from the Hilliard Ensemble) - and sets Petrarch in the original 14th century Italian. I focused on those sonnets known as the Rima Sparsi (scattered verses) and added one extra Petrarch setting - originally a radiophonic piece (Marconi's Madrigal) for CBC's Marconi Day. Gavin Bryars.
SKU: AP.6-251020
ISBN 9780486251028. English.
This convenient edition makes available for the first time, 39 of Monteverdi's finest madrigals in one inexpensive paperbound volume. English translations of texts and other editorial material by Stanley Appelbaum. Sold in the USA only. 272 pgs.
SKU: ST.B570
ISBN 9790220208621.
CONT ENTS Ahi, dispietata morte Dissi a l'amata mia Or vedi, Amor Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento Vezzosi augelli in fra le verdi fronde Zeffiro torna.
SKU: ST.B571
ISBN 9790220208638.
CONT ENTS Chi vuol udir i miei sospiri in rime II lieti amanti Madonna, sua merce Non al suo amante piu Diana piacque Ov'e condotto il mio amoroso stile Tutto il di piango Vedi le valli e i campi.
SKU: ST.EM8
ISBN 9790220206320.
Well -known in his day as one of the most important contributors to East's Whole Book of Psalms (1592), Farmer was in the service of the Earl of Oxford who, more than any other nobleman, established the professional Elizabethan theatre. In the year that Burbidge opened the Globe Theatre, these 18 madrigals (the most famous is probably Fair Phyllis) gave the composer an attractive place in the history of English music. CONTENTS A little pretty bonny lass (SATB) Cease now thy mourning (SAT(or A) B (or T)) Compare me to the child (SAT(or A) B) Fair nymphs, I heard one telling (SSAT(or A) TB) Fair Phyliss, I saw (SATB) I thought, my love (SATB) Now each creature joys the other (SATB) O stay sweet love (SATB) Soon as the hungry lion (SATB) Sweet friend, thy absence (SAT(or A) B) Sweet Lord, your flame still burning (SATB) Take time while time doth last (SATB) The flattering words (SATB) Who would have thought that face? (SAAT) You blessed bowers (SSATTTBB) You'll never leave still tossing (SATB) You pretty flowers that smile (SAT(or A) B.
SKU: HL.49047362
ISBN 9798350124842. UPC: 196288207597.
The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti, who was a specialist in Bronzino and Pontormo. Bronzino's sonnet is a lament on the death of Pontormo, his teacher; Laura Battiferri's poem is a direct response to that of Bronzino. As I was also asked to set sonnets by Petrarca, I chose two of his closely linked sonnets, numbers 229 and 230 in the Rime Sparse. I had written a work for I Tatti some five years earlier setting Petrarca (??A qualunque animale?, the first in my Fourth Book of Madrigals) and was familiar with the context. However, through correspondence with Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian at I Tatti and, through her, Craig Smyth's family, I became increasingly aware of his unusual and quite special character. From his undergraduate days at Princeton and indeed throughout his life, although a great scholar and writer, he was at the same time an aficionado of jazz, loving above all Louis Armstrong, being photographed with Duke Ellington, taking his children to see Thelonious Monk, listening to Ben Webster and playing the tenor saxophone himself. Indeed, he had told Kathryn Bosi that he had been proud to walk in procession at the funerals of black musicians in New Orleans. In some ways his life was almost an obverse mirror image of parts of my own - I was a professional jazz musician but found myself teaching art history for a time. As Fiorella Superbi of I Tatti has said: Craig was a maestro di vita. I raise a glass in his memory and dedicate these sonnets to him. Gavin Bryars.
SKU: PR.114416920
UPC: 680160626052.
Carlo Gesualdo, the ill-fated if brilliant composer of the 16th-17th centuries was all but lost to music history until his rediscovery in the 20th century. His writings, described as intensely expressive, were centuries ahead of their time, and were perhaps informed by the tragic events of his life. Of particular appeal are the many madrigals written between 1594 and 1613, and Freshner has chosen several examples in his arrangements for brass quintet. From the book of 1597, he adapts I. Luci serene e chiare, II. Ecco moriro dunque; Hai, gia mi discoloro, and III. Io tacero; Invav dunque, o crudele. The complex harmonies and spirituality are unlike anything else written 400 years ago. For advanced performers.
