IPPNW Charity Concert

Claudio Monteverdi’s contemporaries, pupils and successors in spirit assemble here to perform virtuoso works with and without vocal accompaniment. Salomone Rossi, named “Hebreo” due to his Jewish origins, was one of Monteverdi’s colleagues in Mantua. His instrumental works, as well as his many-part compositions for a reformed synagogue service, which he published under the title “Songs of Solomon”, were pioneering pieces of music. Luigi Rosso and Antonio Sartorio, who were one to two generations later than Monteverdi, are just two examples of the stimulating history of reception of Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” on later composers. Francesco Cavalli was summoned by Monteverdi to his court chapel at San Marco in Venice; first as a boy soprano, then as a tenor, he soon became the most famous opera composer of his generation after Monteverdi. Marco Uccellini’s musical-theatrical works have not survived; but his instrumental works, which are virtuoso in their demands, have an original use of form, survived. Alessandro Stradella extravagances in art, both vocal and instrumental, corresponded to escapism from life.

Amore Perduto – Music of the Early Italian Baroque

Marco Uccellini [ca. 1610-1680]
Sinfonia seconda a cinque stromenti in C minor [1660]
aus: Ozio regio. Libro VII op. 7 [1660]

Claudio Monteverdi [1567-1643]
“Lasciatemi morire” Lamento d’Arianna [1608]
for soprano and basso continuo. Text: Ottavio Rinuccini

Salamone Rossi [1570-1630]
The Songs of Salomon for five voices [1623] (selection)
Instrumental version

Antonio Sartorio [ca. 1630-1680]
L’Orfeo. Dramma per musica [1672] (excerpts)

Alessandro Stradella [1639-1682]
Sinfonia for violin, cello and basso continuo in D minor

Alessandro Stradella
“Affligetemi pure, amare memorie”
Cantata for soprano and basso continuo

Johann Rosenmüller [1617-1684]
Sonata nona à 5 in D major
from: Sonata à 2,3,4 e 5 stromenti d’arco et altri [1682]

Marco Uccellini
Sinfonia quarta a cinque stromenti in C major
from: Ozio regio. Libro VII op. 7 [1660]

Francesco Cavalli [1602-1676]
“Dunque, Giove immortale” – “Verginella io morir vo‘”
Recitative and aria of Calisto from “La Calisto” (I,2) [1651]

Marco Uccellini
Sinfonia sesta a cinque stromenti in D major
from: Ozio regio. Libro VII op. 7 [1660]

Francesco Cavalli
“Sien mortali o divini” – “Non è maggior piacere”
Recitative and aria of Calisto from “La Calisto” (I,4) [1651]

Sunhae Im soprano
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck conductor