Italian Madrigals

Album by Heinrich Schütz & Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew

Italian Madrigals is a collection of madrigals by the German composer Heinrich Schütz, published in 1611. The music adapts Italian late-Renaissance and early-Baroque madrigal techniques for a German context, featuring expressive text-setting, intricate polyphonic interplay and early-Baroque harmonic colour that illustrate Schütz's absorption of the Venetian vocal tradition and his role in transmitting Italianate styles into German sacred and secular music.

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  1. 1.
    O primavera
    3:28
  2. 2.
    O dolcezze amarissime
    2:44
  3. 3.
    Selve beate
    3:15
  4. 4.
    Alma afflitta
    3:19
  5. 5.
    Così morir debb’io
    3:24
  6. 6.
    D’orrida selce alpina
    3:18
  7. 7.
    Ride la primavera
    3:11
  8. 8.
    Fuggi, fuggi, o mio core
    2:22
  9. 9.
    Feritevi ferite
    3:03
  10. 10.
    Fiamma ch’allaccia
    2:28
  11. 11.
    Quella damma son io
    2:42
  12. 12.
    Mi saluta costei
    3:20
  13. 13.
    Io moro, ecco ch’io moro
    3:47
  14. 14.
    Sospir, che del bel petto
    3:12
  15. 15.
    Dunque addio, care selve
    4:14
  16. 16.
    Tornate, o cari baci
    2:44
  17. 17.
    Di marmo siete voi
    2:58
  18. 18.
    Giunto è pur Lidia
    3:01
  19. 19.
    Vasto mar
    4:14

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