Composer: Benedetto Ferrari, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johannes Hieronymous Kapsberger, Isabella Leonarda, Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli, Tarquinio Merula, Salamone Rossi, Giovanni Felice Sances, Marco Uccellini
Performer: Oslo Circles, Marianne Beate Kielland
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: LAWO
Catalogue: LWC1226
Release: 2022
Size: 2.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Frescobaldi: Canzone quarta a 2 canti
02. Frescobaldi: Fiori musicali: Toccata per le levatione
03. Sances: Stabat mater: Pianto della madonna
04. Mealli: 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4: VI. La vinciolina
05. Rossi: Sinfonia grave a 5
06. Monteverdi, Milanuzzi: Si dolce è’l tormento, SV 332
07. Leonarda: 12 Sonatas, Op. 16: Sonata Prima: I. Allego (excerpt) [Cadenza by Astrid Kirschner]
08. Merula: Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna ‘Hor ch’è tempo di dormire’
09. Uccellini: Sonate, correnti et arie, Op. 4: No. 26. La Prosperina
10. Kapsberger: Intavolatura di chitarone, Libro 4 (1640): Toccata IX
Ferrari: Cantata spirituale “Queste pungenti spine”
11. I. Prima parte
12. II. Seconda parte
13. III. Terza parte
14. IV. Ultima parte
15. Cesti: L’argia: Alma mia
‘OSTINATI LAMENTI’ is a literary genre that developed with various names in Roman languages in the Middle Ages, which typically involves a character complaining in the first person about unrequited love, loss or even their own death. It became very popular in Italy during the Renaissance, due predominantly to the expansion of the publishing industry and renewed interest in the Greek and Latin classics, for example the laments Ludovico Ariosto borrowed from Ovid, including the weeping Olympia.
The economic crisis of the early seventeenth century and the remorseful climate of the Counter- Reformation inspired authors to write ever-greater numbers of sacred and secular laments, and these were increasingly frequently in verse form, designed to be set to music.
On this recording, featuring Norwegian Baroque ensemble Oslo Circles and mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, the listener will hear examples of the lament form by Italian composers such as Frescobaldi, Mealli, Merula, Uccellini, Kapsberger, Monteverdi and others.