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Descripción del producto Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Arcangelo (in their first recording as a vocal and instrumental group) presents a selection from Monteverdis last three books of madrigals. These ardent and passionate works are microcosms of Monteverdis great operas, and among his most celebrated music. Most of the madrigals of Book 6 (1614) are songs of parting and loss. Book 7 (1619) is entitled Concerto, meaning that all the works it contains require instrumental accompaniment. And Book 8 (1638) introduces the genere concitatothe agitated manner that Monteverdi devised to convey the emotions of war, whether physical or psychological. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda sets an extended passage from Tassos epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Tassos 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 of the Combattimento is conveyed by a narrator (Testothe text), sung here by celebrated tenor James Gilchrist. Opinión The astonishing harmonic flexibility and melodic narrative of Monterverdi's writing translates here in urgent drama. You cant turn away from the musical convulsions of Clorinda's death nor doubt the simple agony of the lover in Sestina. --Gramophone, Mar'14 All in all this is a wonderful disc,presenting Monteverdi the dramatist and the creator of vivid aural pictures.Presented in such vivid recorded sound and by such acomplished muscians, intuitively directed by the excellent Jonathan Cohen, it provides an invaluable and hughely attractive addition to the composer's already genorous represenatation on disc. --IRR, Mar'14