COMPANY: Harmonia Mundi
CATEGORY: CD

Product: 3149020185537

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M. C. Kiehr, S. MacLeod
Concert Soave, dir. J.-M. Aymes

Musical trifles... In addition to his books of madrigals, Monteverdi also practised throughout his life less ambitious vocal forms which he designated canzonette, arie or scherzi. Here is a broad selection of these, from the canzonette published in 1584 – when he was only seventeen – to the two books of Scherzi musicali. After the clear choreographic connotations of the 1607 collection, we move on, in 1632, to a considerably more sophisticated art, tending towards the strophic aria and the stile recitativo of the madrigal. Even if they were written for amusement, these ‘musical trifles' attain summits of refinement.