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Round About Monteverdi

Beirach, Huebner, Mraz

Released
2003
Label
ACT
Forces
Piano, Violin, Trio
Personnel
Richie Beirach piano, Gregor Huebner violin, George Mraz bass

Beirach admitted that he had once imagined Bach as the beginning of something new, but studying Monteverdi convinced him that Bach was the culmination of innovations already under way.

The album opens with the only surviving music from Monteverdi’s lost opera Arianna, then returns to it at the end as a much longer fantasy.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsMonteverdi, Gesualdo, Pergolesi, Palestrina, Schütz, J.S. Bach · classical source works

The classical player presents each shared source once: Lamento d’Arianna opens the album and returns as the closing fantasy, while “Tu se’ morta” covers tracks 6 and 7 and the Messenger-Orfeo exchange covers tracks 9 and 10. The other securely identified sources follow in album order.

Jazzed upBeirach, Huebner, Mraz · 2003
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Lamento D’AriannaMonteverdi: Lamento d’Arianna
  2. Responsorium #5Gesualdo: Responsoria (1611), Sabbato Sancto, Responsorium V “O vos omnes”
  3. Eja Mater Fons AmorisPergolesi: Stabat Mater, P. 77: VII. “Eja mater, fons amoris”
  4. ChantPalestrina: Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae, Book III, Feria VI: I. “De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae”
  5. Ben Mio, Rimanti In PaceMonteverdi: “Rimanti in pace” from the Third Book of Madrigals (1592), No. 15, prima parte
  6. Orfeos LamentMonteverdi: L’Orfeo, SV 318, Act II: “Tu se’ morta”
  7. Fantasy On Orfeos LamentMonteverdi: L’Orfeo, SV 318, Act II: “Tu se’ morta”
  8. Fantasy On Fili Mi, AbsalonSchütz: “Fili mi, Absalon”, SWV 269
  9. Dialog Orfeo MessangerMonteverdi: L’Orfeo, SV 318, Act II: the Messenger-Orfeo exchange, “Ahi, caso acerbo”
  10. Around Dialog Orfeo MessangerMonteverdi: L’Orfeo, SV 318, Act II: the Messenger-Orfeo exchange, “Ahi, caso acerbo”
  11. Sancta Mater, Istud AgasPergolesi: Stabat Mater, P. 77: IX. “Sancta mater, istud agas”
  12. SicilianaJ.S. Bach: Siciliano from the Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031
  13. Fantasy On Lamento D’AriannaMonteverdi: Lamento d’Arianna