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West Road Concert Hall
11 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DP
England
Tickets
Prices: From £20.50
Book Tickets
Programme
Claudio Monteverdi – Sinfonia, a doi violini e una viola da brazzo
Claudio Monteverdi – Altri canti d'amor
Claudio Monteverdi – Hor che’l ciel
Claudio Monteverdi – Così sol d'una chiara fonte viva
Claudio Monteverdi – Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Claudio Monteverdi – Amor, amor from Lamento della Ninfa
Claudio Monteverdi – Ballo: Movete al mio bel suon
Performers
Anna Dennis – soprano
Ed Lyon – tenor
Laurence Cummings – Conductor
Programme Note
Academy of Ancient Music performs Monteverdi’s genre-defying Madrigals of Love and War (Madrigali guerreri ed amorosi). Unrequited passion has never sounded sweeter.
In lovers’ hearts, ice and fire mingle… and when Claudio Monteverdi published his Madrigals of Love and War he opened the floodgates to a new world of European art: magical tales of bold warriors and lovestruck nymphs, told in music that explored uncharted realms of tenderness, fantasy and drama. With Monteverdi, all bets are off.
But at AAM, those are exactly the odds they like. Directed by Laurence Cummings, and with the stellar voices of tenor Ed Lyon and soprano Anna Dennis, tonight they’re playing for the human heart itself, on an evening-long journey into one of music’s wildest, wittiest and most exquisitely beautiful minds. Monteverdi dedicated this music to an Emperor: today, they’re playing it just for you.
