This beautiful duet from Monteverdi's opera 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea' is a wonderful addition to the CME Opera Workshop series. This duet, which occurs at the end of the opera, beautifully illustrat...
7SSolo/4TSolo/3BSolo/GemCh: SSATTB/MCh: TTBBB/Orch
These three madrigals written by opera composer Monteverdi come from his 4th book of 5-voice madrigals in 1603. Their expressiveness results in large part from the same flexibility of melodic line and...
Soli, Chor und Orchester
Claudio Monteverdi's (Cremona 1567 - Venezia 1643) nine books of madrigals can be divided into three groups. The first two books were written in the so-called Cremonese period (until 1590), when the c...
The body of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigals is contained in nine books and, for the most part, can be divided into three parts that correspond to the three periods of the life of the Cremonese composer...