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Review from the concert:
The Epoch Times newspaper 2023-12-06 >>
FIRE & PASSION
Chiseling out artful combinations between text and tone has probably never been as innovative and successful as during the 15th-17th centuries of the Renaissance. The poems' linguistic ingenuity gave poetry new dimensions and composers blended their old and new skills in intricate melodic art. The madrigal became the unsurpassed combination!
No vocal ensemble is unaffected after an encounter with a classical madrigal – it challenges with its demands on phrasing, text understanding, dynamics and listening. That the tempi constantly moves in step with the text makes the whole thing even more exciting.
The madrigal is by no means a dead musical form. Ever since the Renaissance, it has had its given place in the tonal language of other eras - but always retained its close word-tone contact.
With our concert today, we want to put the classical madrigal in relief for later times - Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi will meet madrigals by Hendrik Andriessen, Arnold Mendelssohn (!) and Morten Lauridsen.
With us we have Karl Nyhlin on theorb and our ciceron is Maja Verner Carlsson.
Tonight's program:
MORTEN LAURIDSEN Ov'è, Lass, Il Bel Viso?
From "Six "Fire Songs" on Italian Renaissance Poems" No. 1
LUCA MARENZIO Zefiro towers
text: Francesco Petrarca Canzoniere CCCX
HENDRIK ANDRIESSEN 1892-1981: Omaggio a Marenzio (1965)
text: Fazio degli Uberti 1305 (?)- 1367
GIOVANNI GABRIELI Dormiva dolcemente
text: Torquato Tasso
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Sestina
Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell Amata - The lover's tears at the beloved
tomb Text: Scipione Agnelli
ARNOLD MENDELSSOHN Three Madrigals
nach Words aus Goethe's "Leiden des jungen Werther"
BARBARA STROZZI Dialogo in partenza
text: Giulio Strozzi
MORTEN LAURIDSEN See per havervi, oimé
From Six "Fire Songs" on Italian Renaissance Poems No. 6. (1987)
VWELCOME!
Mikaeli Chamber Choir
Anders Eby, conductor
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