Renaissance Madrigals and More in Los Angeles Chamber Singers Quintet's Musica Transalpina
St. Cross by-the-Sea Episcopal Church (1818 Monterey Boulevard Hermosa Beach, CA 90254)
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Crazy Love: 16th-C. Madrigals of Love, Lust & Longing
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The Los Angeles Chamber Singers sextet comes to Hermosa Beach to celebrate the season that "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," as Tennyson noted, with a collection of romantically-themed madrigals from the 1500s. These a cappella works of poetry set to music were popular throughout Europe during the Renaissance, and these particular concert selections from music director Peter Rutenberg explore the theme of lust and longing. Featured are works by the most famous madrigal composer, Claudio Monteverdi, along with those by the famed English school. The finale pulls from a 1601 collection by Thomas Morley, The Triumphs of Oriana, a gushing tribute to Queen Elizabeth I. Learn More
1 Goldstar Member Review
vladoc
Written on Jun 25 2012Beautiful concert. Sad that this type of music is not better appreciated. The audience was small, but appreciative.
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The Los Angeles Chamber Singers Quintet, under music director Peter Rutenberg, presents Musica Transalpina, a virtuosic collection of solo madrigals and part-songs from 16th-century Europe for two, three, four and five voices. Featured composers are Thomas Morley, William Byrd, John Wilbye, William Cornysh, John Ward, Clement Janequin, Josquin Des Prez, Claudio Monteverdi, Adriano Banchieri, Orlandus Lassus, Heinrich Isaac, and Hans Leo Hassler. The gamut of period specialties is explored, from standard English and Italian fa-la madrigals, German Lieder and French chansons, to rhapsodic laments, programmatic madrigals and laugh-out-loud humorous confections, all bearing the unmistakable elegance, wit and charm for which the Renaissance is known.