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
Mariam Kharatyan; Vigen Balasanyan; Alessandra Bossa
Berit Norbakken; Solmund Nystabakk
Trio Accanto; Eivind Buene
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Andris Poga
Ssens Trio
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Aivis Greters
Oslo Circles
Sunniva Rodland
Heidi Fardell; Lynda Sayce; Poppy Walshaw; Robin Bigwood
Ensemble J.M. Anciuti
Ensemble Diderot; Johannes Pramsohler
La Bellemont
Arion Baroque Orchestra; Mathieu Lussier
Juliette Hurel; Orchestre D'Auvergne; Arie Van Beek
I Bassifondi; Simone Vallerotonda
Amanda Babington; Baroque in the North