Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew

Monteverdi - Madrigals, Book I

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Video Director: Isabelle Soulard - Artist: Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew - Producer: CLC Productions - Conductor: Paul Agnew - Chorus: Les Arts Florissants - Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Cité de la musique, Paris | 51 min | 2011 | TV-G

Monteverdi - Madrigals, Book I

Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) composed nine books of madrigals in half a century, which helped transform the genre from the polyphonic, a cappella madrigals of the late Renaissance to the ‘concertato’ madrigals of the early Baroque, shifting the style’s focus to the ability of music to express emotions contained in a text. In 2011, British tenor Paul Agnew and renowned Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants started recording eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals. In this program, Agnew leads Les Arts Florissants in the madrigals of Book I. Published on New Year’s day of 1587, Book I consist of seventeen madrigals for five voices. This performance was recorded at the Cité de la musique in Paris, France, in 2011.

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