Monteverdi, C (1567-1643) – Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda – Documentary
Baroque Composers Playlist: www.youtube.com Making of documentary for ‘Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda’ which an operatic scena first performed in 1624, composed by Claudio Monteverdi, printed in 1639 along with 8 other works. Narrator – Guy de Mey Clorinda – Lorna Anderson Tancredi – Maarten Konigsberger Stage director: Pierre Audi Conductor: David Porcelijn ASKO Ensemble De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam – 1993 —————————————————— Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. Monteverdi’s work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition: the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Enjoying fame in his lifetime, he wrote one of the earliest operas, L’Orfeo, which is still regularly performed. —————————————————————————————————- Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ‘ Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ‘ is an operatic scena for three voices by Claudio Monteverdi performed in 1624. The piece has a libretto drawn from Torquato Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata “Jerusalem Delivered”, a Romance set against the backdrop of the First Crusade. In Il Combattimento the orchestra and voices form two separate entities. The strings are …
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