Lamento | Lawo Classics LWC1226

Lamento

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Label: Lawo Classics

Cat No: LWC1226

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 25th February 2022

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About

'Ostinati lamenti' is a literary genre that developed – with various names – in Roman languages in the Middle Ages, which typically involves a character complaining in the first person about unrequited love, loss or even their own death

It became very popular in Italy during the Renaissance, due predominantly to the expansion of the publishing industry and renewed interest in the Greek and Latin classics, for example the laments Ludovico Ariosto borrowed from Ovid, including the weeping Olympia.

The economic crisis of the early seventeenth century and the remorseful climate of the Counter-Reformation inspired authors to write evergreater numbers of sacred and secular laments, and these were increasingly frequently in verse form, designed to be set to music.

On this recording, featuring Norwegian Baroque ensemble Oslo Circles and mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, the listener will hear examples of the lament form by Italian composers such as Frescobaldi, Mealli, Merula, Uccellini, Kapsberger, Monteverdi and others.

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