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: UT.ODH-35

ISBN 9790215322578. 9 x 12 inches.

L’amorosa caccia is a collection of 24 madrigals for five voices, created specially by as many composers originating from Mantua. All were distinguished professional people, working within the church, at court or in the Palatine basilica of Saint Barbara, and music lovers of noble birth from the area who were somehow connected to the Academy of the Invaghiti, or perhaps part of the same. Among the established musicians of the collection are to be mentioned: G.M. Bacchino, H. Baccusi, P. Cantino, A. Coma, G. Moro, S. Nascimbeni, A. Nuvoloni, N. Parma, G.B. Recalchi, F. Rovigo, A. Striggio, R. Trofeo. The lesser-known, however, seem to be: C. Accelli, E. Ceruti, S. Cressoni, P. Marni, A. Preti, while the following: H. Borelli, C. Ceruti, O. Grassi, P. Massari, G.B. Orto, F. Ramesini, C. Zucca have become known as composers only thanks to L’amorosa caccia.
The realization in score of the madrigals has made it possible to bring to light this collection, establishing its actual musical value and proving the remarkable mastery of madrigal writing of these 24 musicians and offering the opportunity to highlight each one’s different skill as a composer. If some of them have proved to be completely in line with the practices of the time, verging on Augenmusik, others stand out for the wide variety of their harmonies, melodies and rhythms, seeking the best musical expressions to express the affetti contained in the text.
There are no major breakthroughs, but, if the contrapuntal procedures are as to be expected, the body of voices, the experimentation, the interplay between the parts and the harmonic sensitivity show familiarity with the vocal virtuosity of the concerti di dame of Ferrara and Mantua, bringing out what was most modern at the time. The possibility that these madrigals may actually have been performed by that very group of talented singers is enchanting and entirely plausible.

SKU: BT.MUSM570205509

English.

Published 1977. First performance: Janet Craxton, Perry Hart, Redcliffe Concert, 21st January 1981.

SKU: ST.EM26

ISBN 9790220212598.

CONTENTS
Care for thy soul (SSATB)
Chaste Daphne fled (SST (or A) B)
Chaste Syrinx fled (SSA (or T) TB)
Come shepherds' weeds (SSA (or T) TB)
Coy Daphne fled (SST (or A) B)
Crowned with flowers (SSAAB)
Cruel Pabrilla (SSAT (or A) TB)
Dear shepherdess (SSAATB)
Drown not with tears (SSATB)
Fancy for the Viols (SSAATB and Viol Sextet)
Go, you skipping kids and fawns (SSATB)
If she neglect me (SSA (or T) B)
Maenalas in an evening (SSAB)
O gracious God (SSATB)
O praise the Lord (SSATTB)
O softly-singing lute (SSAATB)
Palaemon and his Sylvia (SSTB)
Sovereign of my delight (SST)
Stay, heart, run not so fast (SST)
Surcrease, you faithful shepherdess (SSATB/Viol quintet/Lute)
Wake, sleepy Thyrsis (SST)
Weep, sad Urania (SS and string accompt.)
Ye bubbling springs (SST)
Yond hilltops Phoebus kissed (SST)
You gentle Nymphs (SSA (or T) B)
Your fond preferments (SST).

SKU: ST.EM35A

ISBN 9790220209796.

Jones was a famous lutenist and one of the musicians responsible for training the 'children of St Paul's', who acted and sang in Elizabethan and Jacobean court plays. His 16 madrigals are mostly to texts about birds - birds merry, sweet, shrill, crowing or melancholic.

CONTENTS
Are lovers full of fire? (SSAATBB)
But let her look in mine (SST)
Cock-a-doodle-doo (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Come, doleful owl (SSTTB)
Fair Oriana seeming to wink (SSAATB)
I come, sweet birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Love, if a god thou art (SST)
O I do love (SST (or A))
She only is the pride (SSA)
Shrill-sounding bird (SST (or A) B)
Sing, merry birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Sweet, when thou singest (SSATB)
The more I burn (SSAATTBB)
Thine eyes so bright (SSA)
When I behold her eyes (SST)
Your presence breeds (SSAATB).

SKU: ST.EM27

ISBN 9790220203428.

A minor canon of Norwich Cathedral, Carlton belonged also to the older generation of madrigal composers, particularly fond of the 'Byrd' or English cadence of flat versus sharp leading-notes. Although he claims to have laboured 'somewhat to imitate the Italian style', he admitted in his preface, 'I cannot forget that I am an English man.'

CONTENTS
All creatures then (SSATB)
Calm was the air (SSAT (or A) B)
Content thyself with thy estate (SAATB)
Even as the flowers do wither (SSATB)
From stately tower (SSATB)
If women can be courteous (SSATB)
Let every sharp (SSATB)
Like as the gentle heart (SSATB)
Nought is on earth (SSATB)
Nought under heaven (SSATB)
O vain desire (SSATB)
Sound saddest notes (SSATB)
So whilom learned (SSATB)
The heathen Gods for love (SA (or T) A (or T) BB)
The love of change (SSATB)
The self-same things (SS (or A) ATB)
The witless boy (SSATB)
When Flora fair (SSATB)
Who seeks to captivate (SAATB)
Who vows devotion (SSATB)
With her sweet locks (SSATB)
Ye gentle ladies (SSATB).

SKU: ST.EM22

ISBN 9790220200861.

CONTENTS
Ah, Cupid, grant (SSATTB)
All the day I waste (SSA(or T)A(or T)B)
Camilla fair tripped o'er the plain (SSA(or T)T(or B)B)
Come, Sorrow, help me to lament (SSATB)
Cupid in a bed of roses (SSATTB)
Cytherea smiling said (SSATTB)
Down the hills Corinna trips (SSATB)
Fond love is blind (SSATTB)
Have I found her? (SST(or A)BB)
Her hair the net of golden wire (SSATTB)
I heard a noise (SSATB)
If floods of tears (S(or T)Solo)
If I seek to enjoy (SST)
In depth of grief (SA(or T)TTB)
Life of my life (SSATB)
Live not, poor bloom (SSA(or T)B)
Love is the fire (SAT)
My mistress after service due (SAT)
O what is she? (SSAB)
One woman scarce of twenty (SST)
Pleasure is a wanton thing (SST)
Sadness, sit down (SSATB)
See forth her eyes (SAA(or T)B(or T))
She with a cruel frown (SSTTBB)
Sweet those trammels of your hair (SAT)
The nightingale in silent night (SSAT)
When to the gloomy woods (SATB)
Why do I, dying, live? (SSA(or T)TB)
Why dost thou fly? (SSA(or T)T(or A)B)
With bitter sighs (SS(or A)A(or T)TB).