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Proms Chamber Music 2: I Fagiolini

  • Date Monday 28 July 2008
  • Time 1.00pm - c2.00pm
  • Venue CADOGAN HALL
I Fagiolini (credit: Eric Raymond)

All that has survived of Monteverdi's great second opera, Arianna - whose 400th anniversary falls in 2008 - is Arianna's Lament, which became so famous that, 40 years later, it was said to be on the shelves of every serious musician. Its arrangement for five voices stands as a pinnacle of Italian madrigal-writing.

The opening and closing works this lunchtime are the dance-inspired pieces that end the two parts of Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals: the first, Volgendo il ciel, representing War, the second, Il ballo delle ingrate, reflecting Love.

  • Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel (11 mins)
  • Monteverdi Arianna - Lamento d'Arianna (12 mins)
  • Monteverdi Il ballo delle ingrate (25 mins)

There will be no interval

I Fagiolini
Barokksolistene
Robert Hollingworth director

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