Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda / Lamento d'Arianna

Album by Claudio Monteverdi & Carolyn Watkinson & Nigel Rogers & Patrizia Kwella & David Thomas & Musica Antiqua Köln & Reinhard Goebel

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda / Lamento d'Arianna is a pair of vocal works by Claudio Monteverdi, composed in the early 17th century (the Lamento originating c.1608 and the Combattimento c.1624). These pieces exemplify early Baroque dramatic vocal writing, combining monodic recitative and madrigalian textures with expressive dissonance, concertato accompaniment and instrumental colour, and they mark Monteverdi's movement from Renaissance madrigalism towards the emerging art of operatic drama.