Lamento
Oslo Circles, Marianne Beate Kielland
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Oslo Circles, Marianne Beate Kielland
Description
'OSTINATI LAMENTI' is a literary genre that developed – with various names – in Roman languages in the Middle Ages, which typically involves a character complaining in the first person about unrequited love, loss or even their own death.
It became very popular in Italy during the Renaissance, due predominantly to the expansion of the publishing industry and renewed interest in the Greek and Latin classics, for example the laments Ludovico Ariosto borrowed from Ovid, including the weeping Olympia.
The economic crisis of the early seventeenth century and the remorseful climate of the Counter- Reformation inspired authors to write ever-greater numbers of sacred and secular laments, and these were increasingly frequently in verse form, designed to be set to music.
On this recording, featuring Norwegian Baroque ensemble Oslo Circles and mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, the listener will hear examples of the lament form by Italian composers such as Frescobaldi, Mealli, Merula, Uccellini, Kapsberger, Monteverdi and others.
Tracklisting
Christian Ihle Hadland
Ditte and Hans Christian Braein
Royal Norwegian Navy Band, The Norwegian National Opera Chorus, Bjarte Engeset
Alexandra Silocea
Nordic Voices, Nivalis Barokk
Tora Augestad, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Kare Nordstoga
Kammerkoret Nova, Julia Selina Blank
Tabea Debus; Tom Foster
Astrid Knochlein & Ensemble
Irene Roldan; Pablo Fitzgerald; Asako Ueda; Alberto Miguelez Rouco
Jennifer Johnson Cano; Peggy Pearson; Baroklyn; Simone Dinnerstein
Andreina Di Girolamo; Silvia Rambaldi
Fernando De Luca
Ferenc Fricsay; RIAS Symphonie Orchester
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken