FULL LAGRIME MIE: Songs of Lamentation, Disdain, and Renewal New York 2022 Margaret Haigh
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Lagrime Mie
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: St.Barthomew's Church, Mid-Manhattan, New York City
- Recorded: November 3, 2022
- Type: Concert Live
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Information about the Recording
- Published by: Midtown Concerts
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In a program featuring works by Dowland, Lanier, Rossi, and Monteverdi the overlapping musical worlds of Elizabethan lute song and Italian recitative lament are explored, finding particular corollaries in the music of Nicolas Lanier and Luigi Rossi. Lanier’s expressive and expansive scena Hero’s Lament to Leander breaks the strictures of small form lute songs, channeling its heroine’s complex emotional shifting sands through the recitative style typical of the compositional and rhetorical frames imposed by contemporary Italian composers and pairs exquisitely with Rossi’s Lament di Zaida moro. The recitative lament as a genre is flanked by more restrictive, yet equally soul-baring musical forms, including Claudio Monteverdi’s Voglio di vita uscir — a curiously upbeat lament set over the ciaccona ground base, offering a shining beam of possibility and light in an otherwise dark world.