Le Concert D'astree: Lamenti

1. Cavalli: L'Egisto -- "D'Hipparco, e di Climene," Lamento d'Egisto(Rolando Villazón) 2. Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi -- "Non havea Febo ancora",Lamento della Ninfa (Natalie Dessay, Simon Wall, Topi Lehtipuu,Christopher Purves) 3. Strozzi: Cantate, ariette e duetti -- L'Eraclito amoroso (Philippe Jaroussky) 4. Monteverdi: "Lasciatemi morire," Lamento d'Arianna (Véronique Gens) 5. Landi: Arie - "Superbe colli" (Christopher Purves) 6. Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea -- "Addio Roma" (Joyce DiDonato,mezzo-soprano) 7. Cavalli: La Didone -- "Acate, Ilioneo," Lamento di Enea (Topi Lehtipuu) 8. Carissimi: "Ferma, lascia ch'io parli," Lamento di Maria (Patrizia Ciofi) 9. Cesti: L'Argia -- "Dure noie," Lamento d'Atamante (Laurent Naouri) 10. Cavalli: La Didone -- "Alle ruine del mio regno," Lamento d'Ecuba eCassandra (Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Patrizia Ciofi) 11. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo -- "Tu se' morta mia vita," Lamento d'Orfeo(Rolando Villazón)

Emmanuelle Haim follows her 2006 recording of Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with an unusual and inventive programme on the theme of the Lamento, the literary and dramatic form that found its seventeenth-century musical archetype in Monteverdi’s celebrated Lamento d’Arianna. Emmanuelle Haim has taken great care in choosing 9 soloists to perform these demanding works amongst which Véronique Gens sings the Lamento d’Arianna, the tantalising fragment from Monteverdi’s lost opera of 1608; Natalie Dessay is the abandoned nymph in the very different Lamento della ninfa from the Eighth Book of Madrigals. Alongside these familiar works by Monteverdi the programme includes Philippe Jaroussky in Barbara Strozzi’s dramatic monologue L’Eraclito amoroso, probably written for Strozzi herself, Carissimi’s Lamento di Maria Stuarda (with Patrizia Ciofi) and Strozzi’s teacher Cavalli’s Lamento d’Egisto (with Rolando Villazón, who also sings Orfeo’s Lamento). Joyce DiDonato, recently signed to EMI/Virgin Classics as an exclusive artist, adds Ottavia’s heartrending farewell to Rome from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.