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Lamenti Barocchi, Vol. 1

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Sergio, San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists, Vartolo
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 03, 1995
Catalog #
8553318
UPC
730099431828

About

The Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah form part of the traditional liturgy in Holy Week, the texts of the Lessons of the First Nocturn on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Each verse begins with a Hebrew letter, preserved in the Latin liturgy, Aleph, Beth, Ghimel, Daleth and He, and words are added from the Prophet Hosea at the end of the verse. The chant for the Lamentations was established by the Council of Trent, the tonus lamentationum. The Lament itself has an ancient tradition as a literary and dramatic form, and hence as a musical entity. The most influential and effective of all Baroque musical laments was Monteverdi's Lamento d' Arianna (Lament of Ariadne), the only surviving part of his opera Arianna, with a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, written for and performed in Mantua in 1608, the year after Orfeo. Ariadne, daughter of King Minos of Crete, helps the Athenian Theseus escape from the labyrinth and the minotaur to which he and his companions were to be sacrificed. Sailing homeward, Theseus abandons Ariadne on the seemingly deserted island of Naxos, and her lament, given literary expression by Ovid, expresses her feelings at this desertion. It will be recalled that Ariadne subsequently found consolation with Bacchus and his followers, while the return to Athens I of Theseus was not without it's own untoward outcome, when a signal intended to assure his father of his safe return was mistaken, leading the father of Theseus to kill himself. Monteverdi arranged the Lament as a madrigal in 1614 and in 1640 restored it to it's original monodic form, this time with a Latin sacred text, including it in his volume of madrigals, Selva morale e spirituale. By this time the lament of Arianna had been much imitated.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah 06:05
    Track
    1
    Title
    Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Ensemble
    San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo
  2. 2 Pianto della Madonna sopra il Lamento d' Arianna 12:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    Pianto della Madonna sopra il Lamento d' Arianna
    Duration
    12:08
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo
  3. 3 Cantada sopra il Passacaglio 08:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    Cantada sopra il Passacaglio
    Duration
    08:46
    Composer
    Giovanni Felice Sances
    Ensemble
    San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo
  4. 4 Lamento di Mustafa e Bajazet 24:47
    Track
    4
    Title
    Lamento di Mustafa e Bajazet
    Duration
    24:47
    Composer
    Luigi Rossi
    Ensemble
    San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo
  5. 5 Le tre Grazie a Venere 04:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Le tre Grazie a Venere
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Barbara Strozzi
    Ensemble
    San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo
  6. 6 Hor ch'in notturna pace 09:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    Hor ch'in notturna pace
    Duration
    09:46
    Composer
    Luigi Rossi
    Ensemble
    San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo