PCM 2: I Fagiolini

Proms Chamber Music at Cadogan Hall Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel 11’ Arianna – Lamento d’Arianna 12’ Il ballo delle ingrate 25’ I Fagiolini Barokksolistene Robert Hollingworth director All that has survived of Monteverdi’s great second opera, Arianna – whose 400th anniversary falls in 2008 – is Arianna’s Lament, which became so famous that, 40 years later, it was said to be on the shelves of every serious musician. Its arrangement for five voices stands as a pinnacle of Italian madrigal-writing. The opening and closing works this lunchtime are the dance-inspired pieces that end the two parts of Monteverdi’s Eighth Book of Madrigals: the first, Volgendo il ciel, representing War, the second, Il ballo delle ingrate, reflecting Love. There will be no interval Tickets cannot be exchanged refunded or resold.