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The Early Music Show

10 October 2004

Sunday 10 October 2004 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)

Lucie Skeaping presents the second of two programmes from this year's Brighton Early Music Festival. Musica Secreta perform erotic madrigals from Monteverdi's 4th book, which were miraculously transformed into sacred pieces by the substitution of Latin texts, for performances by nuns. These will be combined with music actually composed by and for nuns of Lombardy including the recently discovered music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

MONTEVERDI, Claudio:
Ah dolente partita (O infelix recessus) for 5 voices
Jesu dum te for 5 voices
Ardebat igne for 5 voices
O Jesu, mea vita for 5 voices

CIMA, Giovanni Paolo:
Surge, propera, amica mea - motet for voice and continuo

SESSA Claudia:
Vattene pur

MONTEVERDI, Claudio:
Vespro della Beata Vergine [1610] vers. with Magnificat a 6
Duo seraphim clamabant [3 voices and continuo]

COZZOLANI, Chiara Margarita:
O Dulcis Jesu

REINA Sisto:
Surge filia Sion

PERUCONA Maria Xaveria:
Gaude Plaude

MEDA Biana Maria:
Ardete, celestes flammae (1691)

MUSICA SECRETA:
Deborah ROBERTS - Soprano
Tessa BONNER - Soprano
Catherine KING - Soprano
Caroline TREVOR - Contralto
Frances KELLY - Harp
David MILLER - Lute
Nicholas PARLE - Harpsichord





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