Zefiro torna (Monteverdi) - Rial & Jaroussky

[oblatusosb]

the most beautiful voice on the planet.

[gbinzat]

Superb!

[katsandroses]

gorgeous, so uplifting

** many thanks **

[MuseDuCafe]

Incredible. all superlatives fall short of the vitality of Monteverdi and his music in this performance. These musicians - all of them - can play at my party, Anytime!

[BigBro1043]

i was simply overwhelmed whn listen to this, time seems to stop

[flyngalan]

I adore the juxtaposition of their voices - so often so closely intertwined it is impossible to tell who is singing!

[higherpoweredone]

The Angels have landed....

[watcherofthings]

if you found yourself here listening to this, it wasnt by accident......................­.

[JMHEROE]

SUBLIME... CANTI

[deLaponia]

This is outstanding! The best recording of Montiverdi's Zefiro Torna. It sounds almost as they are laughing while singing... wonderful! It sounds easy, light and glad. I really like it!

[isadorapopa]

Oameni exceptionali care-si fac meseria...

[esbaritenor]

I can't stop smiling when I listen to this :)

[Vivaldiana1]

Jednym słowem -genialne :-)

Dzięki :-))))

[Moorgothn]

wspaniałe. Da się tu odczuć klimat przewdziwie wysublimowanej esencji prawdziwej sztuki.

[nonnopirro52]

30 stelle Michelin

[ArtemisiaTook]

Brilliant! Such a perfect marriage of technical mastery and beautiful feeling.

[iamhoiam]

Absolut Superb :)



[MrKain1000]

Is it possible to love Monteverdi even more? My! I guess it is!

[moonmandarine]

Fascinante!

[elfapoderosa]

@moonmandarine

Sim fascinante e envolvente... vou estudar isso com minha amiga mezzo.

[MegaJahwe]

@Marietherese77fr

die schönste monteverdi-aufnahme, die ich je gehört habe! herzlichen dank dafür - bitte discographie ins netz stellen, ich muss die cd haben...

[mauriziopanfilo]

Sublime

[Davidoff73]

It is like honey and milk for my ears! Just utterly beautiful!

[tonnze]

Um conjunto necessariamente perfeito! De Boa apreciação! Excellent!!! Perfect!!!

Is very beautiful , my style!!!

[pc0sence]

1:26

Ich träge Scholl

Und ich hol Dir ab

[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 have a celestial event !!

Mon dieu !

[naxeldelenarkie]

What a wonderful experience. Thank you so much!

[ecselonagent]

@Iputhebapu Just for humans, kitty kat!

[Sirianne59]

Paradisiaco, Heavenly voices, this makes you be in contact with better dimensions... <3

[Rotebuehl1]

Fantastic! Grande Monteverdi!

[sweostor]

I just fell in love....

[Liszt31]

O mio Dioooooooooo la tecnica di semicrome della Rial é la più bella che abbia mai sentito O_O Legate, chiare. Un vero e proprio strumento musicaleeee O_O

oh my god! Nuria Rial semocrome technique has the best I've ever heard O_O

[fpainestam]

I'm prejudiced, though. I can't remember a Monteverdi number that I haven't liked...

[v1x4g2]

Brilliant!  Musical sunshine!

[MusicTest1]

or piango, or canto, or gasmo

[IA2329]

Absolutely astonishingly beautiful - I love Monteverdi to pieces.........

[susannahmcdnld]

lucious!

[RGKLEIN21]

This is a very nice and delightful version of "Zefiro Torno". However in my opinion, there is also a version of equal magnificance by Nadia Boulanger in 1937 and re-released on Angel. It has an absolutely 'other-worldly' quality about it. Available as a sample here, but you have to look for it.

Pristine Classical Music site

[luceelizabeth]

This countertenor is excellent!

[VinciLit]

Yeah, whatever. I was thinking about uploading a baroque painting, maybe. a simple motif, theme, etc. shouldn't be enough. I'm just being pedantic, on the other hand :)

[VinciLit]

Why would you look at a painting of Boccaccio when listening to Monteverdi?

[franpoule]

@VinciLit Painting of who?

[VinciLit]

@franpoule

Sorry, I meant Botticelli :D

[SnakkyDoll]

@VinciLit Maybe because we can see Zefiro on this picture, for example ? :)

[brituzo22]

Geniale complimenti

[iaquil]

I´m not a music expert, but.. is it just me or this piece is very refreshing??? Wow!

[acoustic8y3]

@iaquil This is one of the most important characteristic of baroque music and late renaissance... it is happy, delightful music that is meant to heal the wounds of the heart. great stuff.

[SopranoLutju]

The best version of 'Zefiro Torna' I've heard, ever!

[Lucem2]

Beautiful and different.

I uploaded another version with two tenors and Lyrics in Italian and English.

[SpaceWalkTraveller]

I just love Monteverdi.

[francimontis]

Light in my veins! Lovely Edinburgh!

[DonaldBecker79]

The west wind returns an nature revives at its breath,

Flower wreathed girls sing happily of love, and hills and valleys re-echo their song.

Dawn is more lovely, the sun more bright, the sheen of the waters more glorius.

But, I wander alone , tormented by the brightness of her eyes;

and sometimes I weep and sometimes sing their praise.

[neefai]

I had forgotten my love of the viol and lute till I heard this piece.

Thank you.

[Linpha83]

fantastico!

[mrkmb]

whats with the word sublime? why does everybody yses it?

it is a nice piece though!

[tsikitili]

Buona Primavera !!!!

[2222LINDSAY]

Music that ravishes the ears and sets one's soul dancing. Utterly sublime!

[tenorbear60]

What a completely luscious performance of Monteverdi's luscious music. The instrumentation and the singing combine perfectly - so full of life and air and beauty. I feel sorry for people who are not exposed to this kind of music; it should be popular - that groove is infectious!

[vieiracelina]

Que maravilha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[risterion]

Otro milagro del excelso Monteverdi.

[udottor]

Gorgeous.

[Sirianne59]

I am overwhelmed by this beauty...I discover these 2 voices-interpreters only now. Where can I buy this CD and what is its name? Thank you for help!

[morgenstimmung08]

Album: "Monteverdi: Teatro d'Amore"

you can buy it from amazon

It's beautiful!

[Sirianne59]

Thank you, Morgen! ciao

[ceehof123]

If Monteverdi was able to hear how his "Zefiro torna" is performed today by these two vioces, I think his eyes would be filled with tears!

[sylcarmar]

Oy Gevalt! Exquisite beyond description. Heavenly, sheer ectasy.

[55555fuenfeck]

the timbres are exquisitely together

[SyClopps]

Best piece of music, ever!

[hymnistic]

This is unbelievably beautiful!

[sjuli17]

I've listened to this music a few hundred times but still enjoy every note. And even better this way: with a beautiful picture presented to us with good taste and much imagination!

[hthoma]

@sjuli17

Du hast so recht. Genau!

[sarahthomsen77]

Sublime. 

Thank you for this.

[LadyPrizma]

Amazing :) I like this kind of music - also to sing, yes, full of emotion and freedom!!! Thank you!!!

[kozmodamian]

Philippe is perfect!

[mariananueve]

yes!!

[serenaluce]

Purtroppo e' l'unica registrazione su YT, ma ho sentito abbastanza per preferirla. Per me quella e' "sublime e commovente". Se preferisci la versione di Rial e Jaroussky, allora e' solo una questione di gusti personali. Grazie per il tuo parere, ma e' stato il mio.

[serenaluce]

The video is really very beautiful, but Nicholas Spanos and Theodora Baka's version is much better where it's very distinct when a man is singing . Here it sounds almost like 2 women singing...

[realguada]

sounds like two women singing if you don't listen to this music much....a countertenor is perfectly discernible from a female voice...

[serenaluce]

No, it's exactly because I've listened to this music much and know very well what a countertenor is and how discenible he usually sounds from a female voice. I mentioned whose version I consider a perfect example of this. I meant it only for Jaroussky's voice which doesn't sound masculine to me at all and I need to listen to it very closely to discern that it's still a man singing...

[eulero75]

I've sung this song, lol :-)

It was a great emotion, as it's a wonderful rythm and superb music, indeed!

Thank you Claudio! ;-)

[doleen1]

...

[zaccaspacca]

bellezza eterna ..senza tempo

[bettyafeia]

raddoppian l'armonia...

...raddoppian l'armonia

This music brought tears to my eyes, it's too beautiful! I definitely was born in the wrong era.

Monteverdi's seconda pratica is such a treasure of beauty!

[Anavyia]

Beautiful

[serjiusprimus]

Заечательный ритм, мелодия, голос. Юность Европы. Здорово!

[pharrisduffey]

I join all of you, if joy is sound then this is it

[veteranos68]

I like interpretations like these.

These artists are regaining the love of life that the masters of the arts had once.

This love was lost after 1789 in western art.

Congrats to the video poster. Monteverdi plus

Botticelli !!!

Wonderful!

[gjc82071]

Why did you choose the year 1789? Mozart died 2trs later, Beethoven wasn't even in his prime yet (9th symp. completed 1824) & then there were Chopin, Brahms, Hayden, Tchaikovsky, all born after 1789. As for non-musical art, Picasso, Dali, etc. Many great musical works have been completed after that year.

I'm just not sure what you mean about "love of life" and lost it. Could you elaborate a little? I'm interested to know exactly what you mean.

Thanks

[gjc82071]

WOW!! This is Amazing!!!! I consider myself a huge classical music fan & not just the the big 3 "Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) I love Giovanni Gabrieli, Handel & Corelli. Scarlatti & Purcell are nice, & I also like some other not so well knows. I have never really heard anything like this! It almost 'Rocks"! The closest thing to it I have heard would be, maybe Pierre Certon. But this is really hopping! Drums & all! Who is actually playing (not composing) this? I love the interpretation!

[gjc82071]

PS: It doesn't have anything to do with the French Revolution starting it 1789 does it?

[Gazzellabell]

I do sing with them.They are so alive.

Tenederness,I feel it.

These days we need tenderness.Don't you think so?

[Ousios]

Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti

l'aer fa grato e'il pié discioglie a l'onde

e, mormoranda tra le verdi fronde,

fa danzar al bel suon su'l prato i fiori.

Inghirlandato il crin Fillide e Clori

note temprando lor care e gioconde

e da monti e da valli ime e profonde

raddoppian l'armonia gli antri canori.

[monteverdi1567]

absolutely sublime, done with such technical brilliance, sheer joy, and love for the music. First rate!

[boomchuckaboom]

Sublime joy! Thanks for sharing this, I am smiling with every cell in my body now!

[phlarrdboi]

@boomchuckaboom even the ones in your bumhole and your pancreatic system?

[quagapp]

Is that a Botticelli?

[mozartbg]

Yes is "La primavera" (The Spring) of Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1445- 1510). The lyric is inspired to a sonetto of the great italian poet Francesco Petrarca (Arezzo 1304- Arquà 1374). The music is, obviously of Claudio Monteverdi, "il divino" (Cremona 1567- Venezia 1643). Well, sublime italian art. I am proud of being italian

[paunitka]

fox1810, your comment is valuable and I don't see why sb deleted it. I must disagree with you, yet. It isn't possible to know EXACTLY how it sounded then, but we can try to imitate it basing on theory, which bring us closer to the ideal, or give in and perform it as if it were Romanticism. I had such a performance on CD and had to discard it, for it was unbearable. Consider sagarzon's comment - if some people like it the way Baroque ensembles do it, let them :)

[Sailorstayfree]

Hola 1810fox saludos desde acracas, en mi pais tenemos varioasvertiaentes de musica popular, en donde se reparte la influencia de monteverdi de nuestar musica, Si pillas algun video Video donde puedas escuchar, Un polo margariteño O Un galeron, Tambien busca joropo tuyero joropo del llano, Y musica de los andes venezolanos, segun mi concepcion "te vas a quedar loco" ademas este zefiro suena a una "gallarda napolitana" buscalo tambien aqui en youtube. Saludos desde caracas. Julian eduardo

[federicoxxl]

I agree with fox1810, is nonsense to think that we know how it was played at the time of Monteverdi. NOBODY lived at that time, ergo we do not know how they played at that time.

This is heard here is not historically, is a very nice invention, but nothing more.

[1810fox]

I repeat what I said in a previous message that someone removed. NOBODY knows how this music was played in Monteverdi´s time. This version is subjective and questionable as any other.

[starcommander55]

Not true. There very much are degrees of subjectivity and we do have a certain amount of knowledge as to how music sounded at that time. We may not have firsthand knowledge, however we have their words which we can use to develop our ideas of their soundscapes from. There are versions which we do KNOW are more accurate than others; and we can prove that.

[phlarrdboi]

musicologists can study the music, including contemporary tutors' descriptions of how to play, and recreate the style of the time. In absoluto of course it will never be exactly the same, because two times playing the same piece will never be exactly the same in all particulars (unless played by robots).

but it's pish to say that we can't recreate it because no one alive today was living then.

[mrmolinodelahoz]

Even films from the 30s and 40s look different than how they might be recreated today.

One thing is for sure-- our minds are different and our perceptions as well- never to return to former epochs.

[Sailorstayfree]

Hay que destacar que tambien suena la influencia de monteverdi en varios ritmos latinoamrecanos, como el joropo y el galeron en venezuela.

[1810fox]

Tu afirmación es verdaderamente audaz. ¿En qué fuentes te apoyas para decir que Monteverdi influyó sobre los rítmos venezolanos o hispanoamericanos?

[1810fox]

Very ugly the percussion, it is so vulgar. Careful, do not know how it played in Monteverdi's time, NOBODY knows, this is a very subjective and modern instrumentation.

[eustazio]

so you remark is pretty much moot isn't it ? ahem

[sagarzon]

I like it all. If anyone different to you likes it, wouldn't it be just enough? Isn't music made for everyone? Maybe if it had the instrumentation you like, it wouldn't be so nice to other people.

Humans have the right to be different!!! So criticism must be kept for oneself.

[jazael48]

La música de Monteverdi es siempre bella y sorprendente. Hay que seguir el significado de las palabras y las modulaciones de la música: palabras y música forman una unidad que quizás nadie volvió a repetir. ¡Que viva Monteverdi!

[Trompicavalas]

Estoy de acuerdo las piezas de Monteverdi contienen algunos textos que en mi opinión por si solo son dignos de considerarse entre los mejores de la literatura universal. Yo animo a que los hispanohablantes hagan un pequeño esfuerzo para seguir la letra en el Italiano del renacimiento, para nosotros es bastante fácil de entender y realmente merece la pena

[Babejuda]

I don't know how this fantastic group manages to be so modern, relevant and live within the bounderies of the Baroque's principals! Bravi!

[rosangelasor]

che ritmo!!! certo che sapevano divertirsi all'epoca di Monteverdi!!

[Sailorstayfree]

Zèfiro retorna, Retorna retorna, Zèeeeeefiro retorna!

[Sailorstayfree]

suena a musica latinoamericana!

[JanMarshall]

very beautiful!! thanks

[Josefk40]

impresionante pieza. Magnifica.

[quontin]

Their voices perfectly complement each others! What a heavenly chemistry!

[erucolindo87]

It's amazing how much a little bit of percussion makes a piece like this just come to life....

[1BODGER95]

Yes, the percussion is fantastic!

[schwarzesblut89]

Das ist so wundervoll....

[diesissimo]

E' Veramente meraviglioso! Ciao Nuria!!

[PEACEandNoWar]

ボンジュールさんへ、素晴らしいドゥエット。いつかライフで聴き­たいですね。

[koliatima]

C'est d'une beauté exquise! Merci

[tuscarett]

Que hermosura. Hace ya mucho que amo este madrigalito que suena a son cubano por la festiva y magnífica versión de "Tragicomedia" con dos tenores. Esta vuelve a despertar mis sueños mas juveniles. Parece que Monteverdi la compuso ayer.

[zorbazig]

Je confirme l'avis de Xenio: c'est la plus belle video de YouTube !!!...

[cuirassier08]

superbe duo ,un enchantement  comme toujours avec ces talentueux artistes ,on en redemande toujours plus !! merci

[Justino111]

FANTASTIC!! the version of Zefiro Torna that I have is with two incredible tenors (please, not the romantic tenors the media makes us swallow, but 2 early music interpreters). It's astounding to come across this version with a soprano and a countertenor (i was about to say it was an alto). I thought Monteverdi had specified the voices. I don't own the score and wonder which one is the original. This is a marvelous recording...rich, beautiful, stunning.

6:11 is the very breath of a genius.

[zorbazig]

ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE !!!... Thanks for posting it --

[stafffilo]

C'è ancora da lavorare sulla pronuncia.

[sgoslinga]

This video is so stunningly beautiful!

I've just bought the CD.

Thank you so much for bringing it to my notice. Who wants heavenly choirs if you can listen to this kind of music?

[GONDREMARK]

Evviva Monteverdi !!!!

[baulif]

Evviva Jaroussky!!!

[xenio72]

The most beautiful video I've ever seen on YouTube.

Thank you!!!!

[vasylynka007]

Such a lively and beautiful interpretation!!!

[mattmarcucci1]

I'm perplexed that a group which can clearly make such beautiful music is also capable of abominating Monteverdi (see: jazz renditions of madrigals...)

[asisecanta]

THE CD OF THE YEAR!!!!

STUNNIG, each track more stunning than the previous one

[dzhuljano]

it's really amazing!

Still, Zefiro is pronounced (by Tuscan speakers) with a low [e] (i.e. -ATR, phonologically).

[ievabirzkopa]

perfect interpretation!! love it!!! PJ - simply the best!!

[encomiumjah]

Semplicemente stupefacente; tale bellezza! Your choice of this particular Renaissance art piece is the bonus; kind of like icing on the cake...thank you!

[MariadeBsAs]

I'm overwhelmed by such beauty...!!Philippe, amazing as always, Nuria sings beautiful too, and both voices together sound superb... Thanks for posting!

[Arsace83]

semplicemente magnifico!!!

[bafitchbb24]

exquisite! Excellent countertenor, simply angelic!

[bennigno1]

wow, that's so beautiful! thank you!

[mradaChris]

Beautiful, as always.