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Arcangelo: Love & Loss - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Love & Loss

Artist:

Arcangelo

Label:

Hyperion

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

034571280196

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2014-02-11

Number of Discs:

1

The Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Arcangelo presents a selection from Monteverdi's last three books of madrigals. These ardent and passionate works are microcosms of Monteverdi's great operas and among his most celebrated music. The eighth book of madrigals introduces the genere concitato - (agitated style) that Monteverdi devised to convey the emotions of war, whether physical or psychological. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda sets an extended passage from Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Tasso's text, set in the time of the first crusade, tells of the combat between the Christian knight Tancredi and the Saracen maiden Clorinda. Most of the action is conveyed by a narrator, sung here by celebrated tenor James Gilchrist.

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