Six madrigals by Luca Marenzio SATB Edited by Alec Harman CONTENTS Ahi, dispietata morte Dissi a l'amata mia Or vedi, Amor Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento Vezzosi augelli in frà le verdi fronde Zeffiro torna

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen

These Four Madrigals From The Natural World by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen are settings of texts by the Australian author Les Murray. Two songs were originally written for the Song Company Australia and two more from his larger work Sound/Sight for Danish Radio Chamber Choir. All have been arranged here for six voices (SSATBarB) with texts in English and Danish. Duration 16:30

12 Italian Madrigals-This book of twelve five-part mixed choruses has been put together and edited by Alfred Einstein. Although it illustrates historically the development of the madrigal over a period of sixty years the primary purpose of this collection is a musical one and the collection should give delight to those who love Renaissance music and a capella singing. Although each song has five parts these are not 'set' and any section may be split in any one piece. Original Italian texts with English versions and piano for rehearsal only.

Par . This album contains 12 pieces arranged for six C flutes by Cathi Marro: The Cloud-cap't Towers, Nun liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit, Maria wallt zum Heiligtum, Frisch auf, ihr Menschenkinder, Quodlibet, If Beauty be a Treasure, Un tempo sospirava, Der Heilig Geist vom Himmel kam, Es springen und singen, Io morirò d'Amore, Ich klag den Tag und alle Stund, and Viva la Musica. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Recueil / Ensemble de Flûtes

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen

Judith Weir's Madrigal for TTBB choir unaccompanied. This work was commissioned by the BBC Singers in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Stephen Cleobury. The lyrics are from aSardinian folk tale.

Par HAHN REYNALDO. Reynaldo Hahn 's Songs And Madrigals for three- and four-part choir. The time machine has no secrets for Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947). After plunging his contemporaries into the delights of Renaissance revelry with the ‘ Bal De Beatrice D'Este', the composer continued to explore the past with a tribute, in 1907, to Rameau (in the final drumroll of the ‘ Sonatine' for Piano). He also published Songs And Madrigals, composed on a selection of texts written by famous 15th and 16th century poets: Charles d'Orleans, Jean-Antoine de Baï f and Agrippa d'Aubigne. Composed for three- and four-part choir (with optional Piano accompaniment duplicating the Vocals), these six Songs And Madrigals radiate a powerful charm that preserves them from affectation: Un Loyal Coeur envelops the listener in the polyphonic latticework of an enchanting melancholy, while Vivons, Mignarde borrows rhythmically from Lully to exalt the 'sweet life' that Coralie's lips promise to make even more voluptuous. With its seductive melody and expressive delays, Pleurez Avec Moi! bestows heartrending accents upon the sighs of a desolate soul. En Vous Disant Adieu, Comment Se Peut-il Faire Ainsi and Les Fourriers D'Ete round off this collection of deliberately archaic songs that exhale an irresistible freshness./ Répertoire / Choeur et Piano

Hor che'l ciel e la terra for 24-Voice Chorus and 4 Percussionists is a re-imagining of the second work in Claudio Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love) published in 1638. The original a setting of a sonnet by Petrarch for six voices two violins and continuo is unquestionably one of Monteverdi's greatest masterpieces.

Fifteenth-Century Music-The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.

The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.

Dance Music-The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.