Hear new music based on much older works of Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, by Italian Gianluigi Trovesi, and from American composers David Garland, Wendy Carlos, and Huck Hodge.
Listen to contemporary takes on Monteverdi’s operatic works – from his first opera, La favola d'Orfeo, along with music from his last, L’incoronazione di Poppea by Italian saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Gianluigi Trovesi. Trovesi leads cheeky and playful arrangements for North-Italian provincial “banda”, which is a large wind orchestra with percussion.
Then, from David Garland’s latest record, Verdancy hear a work based on Monteverdi’s “Lamento della Ninfa” (The Nymph’s Lament.) Using 12-string adapted guitar, modified by Kenji Garland, and featuring the Czech vocalist and violinist Iva Bittová and double bass player Julian Lampert, Garland captures the emotion in the original text with much suffering and wailing.
Hear piano & computer acoustic music and electronics from Huck Hodge, who in his piece, Pools of shadow from an older sky, commemorating the first demonstration of Galileo’s telescope, works in "Ave maris stella" from Monteverdi's setting of it in his Vespers of 1610. Then, listen to Monteverdi as done up by Wendy Carlos from her 1970’s record, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, the follow-up to her groundbreaking Switched On Bach. And more.
Program #4148: Modern Monteverdi (First aired 9/10/2018)
ARTIST: Michel Godard
WORK: Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea: Pur Ti Miro [1:00]
RECORDING: Monteverdi- a Trace of Grace
SOURCE: Carpe Diem 1628
INFO: Available at Amazon.com
ARTIST: Wendy Carlos
WORK: Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610: Domine Ad Adjuvandum [2:33]
RECORDING: The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
SOURCE: East Side Digital E81612
INFO: Out of print. Try Amazon.com or auction sites
ARTIST: Gianluigi Trovesi All'Opera
WORK: Claudio Monteverdi: La favola d'Orfeo: Musa [1:36]
RECORDING: Profumo di Violetta
SOURCE: ECM 2048
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: Gianluigi Trovesi All'Opera
WORK: Claudio Monteverdi: Lincoronazione di Poppea: Pur Ti Miro [4:10]
RECORDING: Profumo di Violetta
SOURCE: ECM 2048
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: Red Byrd
WORK: Claudio Monteverdi: Zefiro Torna [5:48]
RECORDING: Songs of Love and Death
SOURCE: Facd 336
INFO: Out of print. Try Amazon.com
ARTIST: David Garland with Iva Bittova
WORK: David Garland: Monteverdi's Lamento della Ninfa [17:33]
RECORDING: Verdancy
SOURCE/INFO: davidgarland.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Huck Hodge
WORK: Pools of shadow from an older sky IV. In lost Venetian air [2:22]
RECORDING: Life Is Endless Like Our Field of Vision
SOURCE: New World Records 80758
INFO: newworldrecords.org
ARTIST: NOTUS
WORK: Claude Baker/Claudio Monteverdi: Hor Che'l Ciel E La Terra [7:16]
RECORDING: Of Radiance & Refraction
SOURCE: Innova 002
INFO: Due out Sept. 28, 2018 | innova.mu
ARTIST: Michel Godard
WORK: A Trace of Grace [2:23]
RECORDING: Monteverdi- a Trace of Grace
SOURCE: Carpe Diem 1628
INFO: Available at Amazon.com