MONTEVERDI: Ah! dolente partita! (The Full Monteverdi)

From Claudio Monteverdi's Il Quarto Libro de Madrigali a Cinque Voci (1603).
(text by Giovanni Battista Guarini)
Ah! dolente partita!
ah, fin de la mia vita!
da te parto e non moro? E pur i' provo
la pena de la morte
e sento nel partire
un vivace morire,
che dà vita al dolore
per far che moia immortalmente il core.
I FAGIOLINI / dir. by Robert Hollingworth
Soprano: Anna Crookes (w. Pano Masti, actor)
Soprano: Carys Lane (Alan Mooney, actor)
Mezzo: Clare Wilkinson (w. Mark Denham, actor)
Tenor: Nicholas Mulroy (w. Katharine Peachey, actress)
Baritone: Matthew Brook (w. Anna Skye, actress)
Bass: Giles Underwood (w. Gina Peach, actress)
Film Director: John La Bouchardière
Dir. of Photography: Nick Gordon-Smith
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[@strawberry1025]

Beautiful! What a moving setting. Break up over the dinner table......

[@compattoto2]

The greatest composer of all times, tha's Monteverdi! How do you figure out him? Baroc, modern, contenporary, in other words complete and touchfull passion!

[@beteltree]

@MrAPL4 Agree! Nothing better, no music more nakedly human or so utterly profound.

[@basieite]

It took me a lifetime to realize Monteverdi did it first and best. He is the first and the greatest composer in Western Civilization.

[@anibalconcha6612]

Not only him...i think: Schutz, J.S.Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms.

[@mtierra]

Fantastic singing.
Interesting but hilarious scene -- I wonder what those people were eating or drinking?

[@MrJonahWhaler]

In my opinion this setteing based on splitiing by voices does not correspont to the music... in that music different voicec do need really work dramatically as separate units... they all express one and they cannot be represented each by one person. They add one to another to make 'a sigle person'

[@amangkalikasan]

The bass is terrible...