Monteverdi: Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti - Fouchécourt, Padmore

[TepidStreams]

Why is it notated such that the second quarter-note of each measure sounds like the downbeat? Were the measure bars added by someone else after it was written?

[RufusLoacker]

My surname is Monteverdi, my grandparents come from Cremona, the city where Claudio Monteverdi born. Aaaaaand... I'm sudying composition. I <3 my grandgrandgrandfather :P

[SageFlores]

@RufusLoacker

I think you have to add more grands to that! Hahaha I love Monteverdi, such a cool last name to have, congrats ;)!

[mirrors1]

Davvero torna zefiro!

[ReverendNervousDog]

Jesus christ, this is fucking awesome.

[flip0830]

you are so right

[NemoProkofiev551]

5:06 :whoah.. did I just hear a b flat and an f sharp TOGETHER!? I'm confused... really!

[Krotalopaffuto]

ho miei dei....ho miei dei!..HO MIEI DEI!

[mulekka2008]

Bravoooooooooo... I loved is song... I am brasilian.!

[rosten736]

I just love this Chaconne melody which I think has been the basis for more compositions by different composers than perhaps any other besides La Folia

[isadorapopa]

Innebunitor de frumos!

[jeffwyss]

I think this is the most convincing interpretation of all those I've heard, especially the way they end the piece. I've always been annoyed the way others, that startted off so well, would rub me the wrong way when the got to the end would ruin it. These two fellows are good and very well directed.

[Gitarre888]

Thank you SO much for uploading! One of my beloved ones. ;)

[nonnopirro52]

Beautiful

[kotetsu131]

I don't know....I have great respect for high rennaissance composer such as Palestrina and Josquin, but this just seems ANNOYING. Perhaps my musical tastes are slightly defunct as of late but it's so fucking repetitive!!! at least some counterpoint would have been nice...

[ecp2014]

@kotetsu131 Monteverdi had a long career that spanned from the late Renaissance to what you could call proto-baroque (opera, figured bass, etc.) If you want counterpoint, check out his earlier masses or madrigals - they don't disappoint.

[kotetsu131]

@ecp2014 Eh you are right of course. I think I was probably just in a bad mood and sniggering about the overt pederasty of it all.....(jk). I actually remember this piece being beaten into us during a lecture in one of my musicology classes a while back. It is quite brilliant when you think of what it led up to; those florid lines paired against each other at ~ 1:08 or so bring Bach and his oratorio writing sharply to mind.....ha I wonder where he got the idea :)

[suffiice]

@kotetsu131 Its a basso ostinato, of course the HARMONY is repetitive but the melody is extremely charming

[AgnesRegina]

AWESOME.... I want to learn it... if I could find another soprano to do it with....

[grandadpoppyable]

I can imagine a couple of Spanish peasants dancing to this. Bugger it here goes nothin, I'm on my feet and they have a will of their own dammit.

[Flixypoo]

I believe that the sonnet that Monteverdi has set to music here is by Francesco Petrarca. Am I right or wrong?

A very beautiful interpretation, thanks for posting!

[drtmuir]

@Flixypoo No, you're thinking of the 5-part Zefiro torna e'il bel tempo rimena. This is by Rinuccini.

[molealto]

Wow. The first time I've heard two of the world's greatest hautes-contre duetting together.

[kenmorris]

Che piu si puo dire ? Straordinari ! Superbi ! Splendidi!

I heard L'arpeggiata, and my hero Doron on cornetto nero,

at Carnegie Hall (Zankel) on Friday night do a splendid recital of music

from Teatro d'a more, the CD which Zefiro torna is on.They are

absolutely fantastic- historical vetted, uptempo, fresh, exciting, and when you marry these supremely, amazingly, stunningly talented musicians, with the ethereal and blended voices of Nuria Philippe - you

[bah3688]

awesome!

[madamebellaful]

i love this

[pleasureman666]

amazing

[1980NewWave]

Although I love classical music, I've never been an opera fan....but I LOVE this melody, and the harmonizing is perfect. And I find it fascinating that despite having been composed in the 16th or early 17th century, it sounds closer to modern, say, broadway music (I know the classical purists will blast me for that, but some modern music *is* good, you know), than the Romantic period vocal music.

[mouhint]

Such a lively and merry tune indeed.

[berenJRRT]

aahhh....gaudio sonoro!

[2javivi1]

Is this an opera or a madrigal?

[eulero75]

@2javivi1 A madrigal....opera is something completely different! Opera is a theatre piece, with music, and sung instead of talken!

[2javivi1]

@eulero75 haha, okey. Thank for answering.

[lovesGenet]

How complex this is .i had no idea music written this early did these kind of expressionistic music!!!Monteverdi!

[ecp2014]

Every I listen to this, I find myself waiting for 5:07.

[evaltala]

"Bella interpretazione." Un grand' chef d'oeuvre de Claudio Monteverdi. Merci bien pour ses efforts. EV

[FKRamon22]

Magnífico..

[Anavyia]

Beautiful

[peres010492]

Where did you get the score, please?

[limone84]

sublime

[eulero75]

Bellissimo duetto....ogni tanto mi capita di cantarlo anch'io :-)

Comunque loro sono molto bravi a pronunciare l'italiano, la nostra è una lingua molto più difficile di quel che sembra!

[L4NdSkN3ChT]

Zarter, als die Interpretation mit Rial und Jaroussky, aber absolut nicht zu verachten (;

[manrico29]

Immenso Claudio Monteverdi, bellissima interpretazione.

[mozartbg]

Monteverdi è sempre Monteverdi. Il più grande !

[suffiice]

monteverdi has unbeatable harmony

[gustavodmaia]

Monteverdi is simply awesome! I can hear the wind over the field! Gorgeous!

[qualcunomingoi]

sono d'accordo con staffilo... sembrano esercizi con le vocali, non dico una pronuncia italiana perfetta ma questa è ridicola.

Inoltre prima di procedere al cantato si studia il testo nella lingua originale.

Per il resto... Monteverdi! :D

[AuroraOnVenice]

non mi pare.... è un testo ricco di suoni difficili per gli stranieri.... noi diamo per scontato che l'italiano sia facile ma non è affatto vero

[SecondaParte]

Io sono italiano e non mi sembra affatto una pronuncia ridicola. Anzi, considerando che sono cantanti stranieri, trovo che abbiano una pronuncia quasi perfetta.

[Lukecash12]

Hands down, Monteverdi is a spectacle when it comes to lyricism and intonation of the lyrics into his music. I just wish i knew more languages :)

[stafffilo]

La pronuncia dell'italiano è mediocre.

[1PostPoMoMaN1]

Good for a native English speaker and a a French speaker.

[stafffilo]

Obviously  ;)

[tenorbear60]

Thank you for sharing this. I just heard it on the radio (KUSC Los Angeles) this morning and immediately wanted to find out about this great duet. Thank you also for putting in the sheet music! A glorious piece of Monteverdi!

[histoireducinema]

You post such great versions. I am subscribing. Brava!

[jessyquedens]

Thanks for including the score!

[cuicuimusic]

incredible !! and tis' the same bass as another part i heard jaoroussky sing and it started with "amantiiii". ok that's a bit vague but i'm convinced it's the same bass.

[navtelagata]

This bass is called "Ciaconna". There are many pieces composed over this bass. Try the Ciaconna from Tarquinio Merula by the Il Giardino Armonico here in YouTube.

[Vihor189]

Wonderful! 5* and fav!

Thank You!

[cvmostert]

Ohhhh me gusta este cancion!!!

[eduardoromera]

La primera vez que me gusta una obra de Claudio Monteverdi. Bravo Padmore y Fouchecort!!!

[onclevanja]

5:06 !!!!

Monteverdi has the most beautiful and surprising chord successions that I know of. This is super duper.

[senesino83]

oh my... it's amazing, you are right... incredible!

[dzhuljano]

it's amazing! Thank you for posting