The Collegium Musicum the Madrigal Singers
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The School ofMusic , presents the 57th program ofthe 1989-90 season c,'19qO 2. -2-7 The Collegium Musicum Margriet Tmdemans, Director The Madrigal Singers Joan Catoni Conlon. Director .. '..,-' ' "LaBella Venezia" Diversity of styles from La Serenissima February 27, 1990, 8:00 PM Meany 1beater " I -- --......~. r' I D~lI,(001 c fk.s 'fF Ir t9 0 2 11.(,,;03 Thus. amidst her angry tears, she lifted her voice to heaven. In this way in the hearts oflovers does Love Program mixflames and ice. Ca.~"'7*1lr(&02A Cynthia Beiunen. mezzo-soprano Dessus Ie marebe d'Arras (1528) .......... ADRIAN WIU.AERT (C.1490-1562) At the market (me"ily. merrily we play). I encountered a Spaniard (merrily ...). He said, 'Usten. maid,' Hor care canzonette (1584) ......................•CI..AUDIO MONTEVERDI (merrily...) 'I will give you silver' (merrily...). Dear camonets. go swiftly and surely. Ricercar declmo (Venice. 1559) ................................WILLAERT without saying a word. to Idss her hand... r Sweet camonets. go only to one...begging her pardon... Maledetto (1632) .................................CI..AUDIO MONTEVERDI Adoramus te (1620) ....................CI..AUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643) (Lament ofOlympia. abandoned by her lover on a We adore you. 0 Christ. and we bless'JOu./Or by your desert island}Cursed one! I love with afaitlt/ul. burn.ing passion. priceless blood, you have redeemed us. Have mercy upon yet I am a river oftorment. Love's ~ows pierce us. me. yet I am disarmed. You dismiss the fire ofmy love! Laurie Hungerford Flint, soprano Cantate Domino (1620) ........................... CI..AUDIO MONTEVERDI Sing to the Lord a new song. a bless G04 s name, who has made miracles to happen. Sing and rejoice, sing psalms with harp and voice. ~ Bicinium qlJ8rto modo (Venice. 1558) ....... GIOSEFFEZARLINO (1517-1590) '. ~ .... ~ ...... ;' 1 ....!3 Bicinium primo modo ................................GIOSEFFE ZARLINO ~ Nigra sum ...........................................GIOSEFFE ZARLINO I am black. but comely, 0 ye daughters ofJerusalem, Toccata 9/2 .........................GIROI..AMO FRESCOBALDI (1583-1643) as the tents ofKedar. as the cJU1Qins ofSolomon••.. lec.,,-r,Te. variQT~ '5c¥'Y'o... {o .{;Aio. - Hc.CII1IVl·, Cynthia Beitmen' Brian Fairbanks Man: Cassone Robert Tangney Non havea Febo aneora (1638) .................... CI..AUDIO MONTEVERDI Gabriel Dwnitrescu Phoebus had not yet brought light to the day when a YOlUlg woman left her dwelling; her pale face carried great grief; she sighed heavily, wandering Ecco mormorar l'onde ...........................CI..AUDIO MONTEVERDI aimlessly, treading on theflowers.lamenting her lost love thus: Behold the 1I1IU1nU1'ing waters. the rustling leaves. the morning air stirring amongst the branches. Lamento della Ninfa Above the verdant boughs, the birds sing sweetly. sky Love (she said, stopping and gazing at the skies) The eastern is beaming. See. the dawn begins to Love. where is thefaith the traitor swore? appear. and is mi"ored in the sea. She begins to (Unhappy one!) Let my love return to me. or kill me brighten the heavens, turning dewdrops into pearls to end my torment....(Unhappy one! She cannot bear such and the high molUltains into gold. Oh. loveliest Aurora! Breezes are thy herald. and thou their envoy. coldness any longer.) (text by Tasso) Si tra sdegnosi pianti Sonata a 6 (Venice, 16(8) ................CESARIO OUSSAGO (FL.1599-1612) Thus. in me, ambitious. vain desires have had more power than my love. Ah,foolish. blind world. ah cruelfate, Intermission that should make me the minister ofmy own death! Julia Vogel, Lauria Hungerford Flint, sopranos C<il..... ~:fP 1/,& 03 A 1 Qual sara mai si miserabil canto (Venice, 1543) ......... COSTANZO FESTA (c.1490-1545) J DamigeUa, tutta bella (1607) ......................CLAUDIOMONrEVERDI What song shall ever be doleful enough to suit the grief Fair damsel! Pour, pour some wine, the pure dewdrops ofmy great loss? How can I weep enough to lament eternally distilled into thefinest ruby wine! my mortal distress? I will stay grieving as long as heaven keeps me alive. My heart, a deep river ofpassion, sends out to you its profound love. But ifyou should throw me over and leave me. Ogni Iocom'atr~ta (1543) .......... .'.................. COSTANZO FESTA I would drown in its depths! Every place saddens me where I see not those gentle fair eyes which bore the keys ofmy sweet thought during Ah.1 am spent! I have not known suchfurious passion. God's pleasure. Whether I sleep or walk or sit. I seek The fires ofMt. Etna are less burning, less ardent nothing else. I am reminded how joyfid my life was then than my passions! by my present bitter unhappy state. New loves inflame me even more. Ifl don't get some help, (text by Petrarch) I shall become an exploding volcano. Partite variate sopra Ia folia. ....... ALESSANDRO PICCININI (1566-C.1638-;l Yet anew, within me, every hour. grows such a high aria Romanesca (Bologna, 1623) ~ temperature. consuming me, disarming me. How can I continue to live this way? e~__~_TM __________________ __ Quand'io pens' al martire ................ JACQUES ARCADELT (1505-1568) Quand'io ero giovinetto (1575) ............ OIOVANNI OABRIEU (1553-1612) Quand'io pens' aI martire .................. CLAUDIO MERULO (1533-1604) When I was a youth. I was always loving someone, with great pleasure. day and night; I lived beyond When I think on the cruel martyrdom you have given me. pain, and beyond traps to chain me down. I wish to rush to my death, to the[mal pain. Now that I am old. everyone pushes me away, saying: But when I think ofwhat has carried me. to this , Get out ofhere. Go to the market, and come back in martyrdom full oftorment, I feel great pleasure an hour or so.' Now. I know great So"ow,for nobody restoring my soul. Thus death returns me to life. wants me! Oh, infinite misery. I am at once encouraged and discouraged. Deb! Dimmi amor (1539) ................. JACQUES ARCADELT (1505-1568) Ah. tell me, ifa loving soul can be both pitying I and beautiful. ifit is not foolish to take a touching Obime, dov'e it mio ben .................... .... CLAUDIO MONrEVERDI , love. and give it away, ifI so able to give Romanesca a 2 did not give, out ofbitterness .... Alas, where is my beloved, where is my heart? Who hides herfrom me. who takes her from me? So alone my desire for honor gives me cruel cause Diminutions on "Un gay Bergbier" ...................GIOVANNIBASSANO for such sufferings. (Venice, 1585) -.J ~ ........................GIPRfANS 98 RQR£ (1516-i5~ (omame&ts by Gholamo dallA Casa (1584] The Madrigal Singers .Clmtllia Beim.len mei5i!9 96Bf8ftO Joan Catoni Conlon, Director Laura Ash Ellen Kaisse Passamezzo ......................'.. : ......................ANONYMOUS Bob Bavis (variations by Trevor Tunnacliffe) Brian Koreski Cynthia Beibnen Brent Kroon Trevor Tunnacliffe, viola da gamba Marc Cassone Pat Patterson Gabriel Dwnitrescu Tara 0' Brien Pride Brian Fairbanks Phil Raether ''LaSoIFaReMi'' (Venice, 1549) ........GIUUANO TIBURTINO (C. 1510-1569) Laurie Hungerford Flint Ted Rosenberger AdinoHo Douglas Fullington Robert Holcomb Robert Tangney Gretchen Hubbert Dianne Vars Julia Vogel Dokissimo uscignolo (1638) ....................... CLAUDIO MONfEVERDI Dianne Vars, Assistant Director Sweetest nighJingale, you call to your companion, saying, ,Come, my love.' For me, a song is ofno value, and, unlilce you, I have no wings to flyaway. ohappy, sweet bird, nature does reward you. Although sM denied you knowledge, she gave you goodfortune. The Collegium Musicum Margriet Tindemans, Director 4 Cynthia Beitmen, voice Kristine Rinn, recorder & Joseph Bichsel, viola da gamba Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba Girometta, a 8 ............................. COSTANZO PORTA (1528-1601) Chris Corfman, recorder Leslie Totusek, recorder George Forman, recorder Trevor Tunnacliffe Deirdre Jasper, recorder Jon Walkwick, theorbo, lute Vicki Melin, flute, recorder Sarah Weiner, recorder Vincent Ranger, harpsichord AItri canti di Marte (1638) ........................ CLAUDIO MONfEVERDI Laurel Uhlig, recorder Let others sing ofMars and his infantrymen, oftheir boldness and brave deeds, ofbloody victories, ofthe triumphs ofcruel, bitter death. Friends of Music (l/l/89 - 2/14/9IJ) I sing, Love, ofhow my spirit was wounded by you, how a glance conquered me, a hair enchained me; UFETIME FRIENDS FOlUulation Milton and Virginia Katims a sad story, but true. PONCHO Kathleen O. Long The Boeing Company Mo. V.R. Scheumann Theodore L. Muts Two beautiful eyes were the weapons that pierced Brechemin Family Foundation Seattle Foundation McCaw Foundation William and Ruth Gerberding SUPPORTERS ($25&.$999) Otarles and Alice McGregor my afflicted soul, and, instead ofblood, Hans and Thelma Lehmann Daniel and Arundhati Neuman bitter tears poured out. Edmund and Carolyn Littlefield Anonymous Maynard and Ellen Pennell Aura Bonell Mom son James and Jane Beale Andrew and Marianna Price PATRONS ($I.,toe-$24,999) Kenneth Benshoof Melville and Mary Price You, tlvough whose might my unvanquished enemy seized CCNAAO in Seattle Alan T. Robertson victory andfamefrom me, since you gave death to my heart, Meade and Deborah Emory James and Mary Carlsen Gilbert 1. Roth Luther and Carol Jones Digital Equipment COIporation Tom and Lorraine Sakata give life to my song. Donald and Linda Miller Richard and Judith Evans CONfRIBUTORS ($5&.$149) SPONSORS ($11)00.$9,999) Ferdinand Ebeotadt Foundation Robert Tangney, bass Ramesh and ShanlA Gangolli George and Lorna Aagaard Jennifer Hillaker,