Profeti della Quinta (Israel/ Switzerland)
29/10｜Thursday｜8pm
St. Dominic's Church
Admission with free ticket
Musical Direction: Elam Rotem
Doron Schleifer and David Feldman, Countertenors
Lior Leibovici and Dan Dunkelblum, Tenors
Elam Rotem, Bass and harpsichord
Ori Harmelin, Chitarrone
Programme highlights
L. Luzzaschi: Morir non puo ‘l mio core
C. Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa
A. Piccinini: Passacaglia
C. Gesualdo: Occhi, del mio cor vita
S. Lacorcia: Ahi, tu piangi
Anonymous: Ballo del gran duca
G. Frescobaldi: Cosi mi disprezzate
1st Prize at the 2011 York Early Music Young Artists Competition
The Madrigal was the most prominent genre of secular vocal music in the Renaissance and early Baroque.Lamenti and Love Songs follows the evolution of the madrigal from the highly expressive polyphonies of Luzzascho Luzzaschi and Carlo Gesualdo to the revolutionary and visionary works by Claudio Monteverdi that decisively shaped the Baroque era.
Profeti della Quinta have been active in performing and researching hitherto neglected repertoire, such as Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Lamentations (1600) and Salomone Rossi’s Hashirim asher li’Shlomo (1623), the first publication of polyphony in Hebrew.
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes, no interval
Festival Outreach Programme:
Pre-Show Talks