Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Tuesday 26th January 2021
7:30 PM

Programme

Orazio Vecchi – Affrettiamoci tutti di fruire
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Soave fia il morir
Claudio Monteverdi – Sfogava con le stelle, SV 78
Alessandro Striggio – Misero Ohime
Luca Marenzio – Senza il mio sole
Claudio Monteverdi – Rimanti in Pace, SV 74
Alessandro Orologio – Omnia vincit amor
Rinaldo del Mel – Madonna io non so far
Philippe de Monte – Zefiro torna
Francesco Corteccia – S'altri d'amor sospira
Carlo Gesualdo – Felice primavera
Carlo Gesualdo – Asciugate i begli occhi
György Ligeti – Nonsense Madrigals: selection
Cristofano Malvezzi – Lieti solcando il mare

Performers

The Gesualdo Six

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Programme Note

Trace the evolution of the madrigal from Claudio Monteverdi to György Ligeti in this entrancing programme.

Monteverdi led the way in a new expressive style of composition, emphasising words just as much as harmonies – and breaking the rules as he went. Palestrina, Gesualdo and Marenzio feature alongside several works of the Il Trionfo di Dori, a collection of madrigals composed in honour of the wife of a Venetian nobleman.

Ligeti’s Nonsense Madrigals parody earlier madrigals by using old compositional techniques as vehicles for humorous portrayals of texts from children’s literature by Lewis Carroll and William Brighty Rands.

‘The sheer beauty of the group’s sound… is spellbinding.’