The swan song of Orlando di Lasso, part 2 (of 3). At the center of this mini-series is the three-part madrigal cycle ‘Lagrime di San Pietro’ by Orlando di Lasso (ca.1532-1594).
Orlando di Lasso wrote ‘Lagrime de San Pietro’ shortly before his death and it is also called his swan song; he was 62 years old at the time. According to his friend and court physician, he suffered from ‘melancholia hypochondrica’ at that time. ‘Lagrime de San Pietro’ is a three-part cycle of 20 sacred madrigals and a concluding motet. In this three-part mini-series, we end each episode with a part from this cycle. We also pay attention to other works by this talented composer who, at the end of the Renaissance, already gave much room to expression, which would eventually become decisive for the Baroque period.
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
- From: his Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales:
- Miserere mei Tölzer Knabenchor, Musikalische Compagney Berlin conducted by Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (CD Orlando di Lasso – Busspsalmen. Cappriccio 67130)
- Catalina, open the window
- All day I weep
- Alone and pensive Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini (CD Orlando di Lasso – Villanelle Moresche e altre Canzoni. Opus 111 OPS 30-94)
- Lagrime de San Pietro, part 2:
- Nessun fedel trovai
- Chi ad una ad una
- Like a sheet of snow
- And his weeping was not in vain
- That face
- Seeing the poor man
- And eager to meet
Huelgas Ensemble conducted by Paul van Nevel (CD Orlando di Lasso – Lagrime di San Pietro. Sony SK 53373)
