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twelve Italian madrigals for five-part chorus of mixed voices never before published in a modern edition
S'infinita bellezza = Since beauty that is boundless / Jacques Arcadelt -- O morte, eterno fin = Last slumber, eternal end / Cipriano de Rore -- Quand'io pens'al martire = When I think how I languish / Claudio Merulo -- Ecco l'aurora con l'aurata fronte = Lo, how Aurora with her golden graces / Andrea Gabrieli -- Verament'in amere = Love, in truth, to a lover / Filippo di Monte -- Quand'io ero giovinetto = When I was a merry stripling / Giovanni Gabrieli -- Quivi sospiri = Therein deep sighing / Luzzasco Luzzaschi -- Erasi al sole il mio bel sole assiso = My queenly sun before the sun was wasted / Costanzo Porta -- Fiere silvestre = Wild, silvan creatures / Luca Marenzio -- Ah dolente partita! = Ah, this parting will slay me! / Giaches Wert -- Fummo felici un tempo = Fortune once made us happy / Orazio Vecchi -- Di marmo siete voi = Of marble you are fashioned / Marco da Gagliano.
Selected, edited and annotated by Alfred Einstein, with English versions by Gustave Reese.
Includes piano reduction for rehearsal only.
Madrigals by Jacques Arcadelt, Cipriano de Rore, Claudio Merulo, Andrea Gabrieli, Filippo di Monte, Giovanni Gabrieli, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Costanzo Porta, Luca Marenzio, Giaches Wert, Orazio Vecchi, Marco da Gagliano.
From the Howard Mayer Brown, Edward Downes and Mary Schieffelin Book Collections, October 2004.