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Comment on Monteverdi’s Setting of Petrarch’s Sonnet Hor che’l ciel e la terra by Magnificat

Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:42:59 +0000

Dear Norbert,

Thanks for catching that – it’s been corrected!

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Comment on Monteverdi’s Setting of Petrarch’s Sonnet Hor che’l ciel e la terra by Norbert E. Fuchs

Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:07:23 +0000

Correction:

Veglio, penso, ardo, piango

is incorrectly translated as

I see, I think, I burn, I weep

while “veglio” correctly means “I wake” or “I awake” or “I stay awake”.

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Comment on Isabella Leonarda – the Muse of Novarra by Tim Gibson

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:37:07 +0000

Enjoyed the Isabella L. sonata.Wish I could have it on CD.

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Comment on The Most Excellent Iacomo Carissimi by Denise

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:35:07 +0000

What amazing music! I just got back from listening to your Berkeley performance at St Mark’s Episcopal. Wow…

Thank you, also, for often selecting pieces like this with profound spiritual overtones. I was moved and nourished by the words and their meaning as well as the music…

Thanks!

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Comment on 2010 Berkeley Festival Featured in NPR Documentary by Alan Curtis

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:11:26 +0000

Dear Warren,
Surprised that, usually so careful with your documentation, you use (as, alas, so many do) that portrait of a famous comedian (can’t remember his name at the moment) as if he were Monteverdi. The only authentic oil portraits I know of are the Strozzi copy in Innsbruck and the (perhaps original?) better one in Vienna, Musikfreunde. Why not use one of them? I was with Robbins Landon in Venice in I think 1965 when he decided to pass that painting off as Monteverdi and put it on BBC TV. Tried to talk him out of it, but had no idea the deception would have such an unfortunately long-lasting effect! All best, Alan (in Lonigo, as usual)

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Comment on Did Caravaggio Die of Lead Poisoning? by Albert Anthony Aguilar

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:45:39 +0000

I’m very curious as to find out how this could be proven. I would like to be placed on your list.

Much adored a GREAT MAN, Caravaggio

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Comment on The Noëls in Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit by Craig Zeichner

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:36:34 +0000

Really nice piece! Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit may be the first piece of French baroque music I ever heard–I never tire of it.

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Comment on Magnificat’s Love Affair with Charpentier by “Sans frayeur” for Soprano and Basso Continuo by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:58:27 +0000

Comment on Charpentier’s Music for Plays by Corneille and Poisson by Magnificat’s Love Affair with Charpentier | Magnificat

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:10:28 +0000

[…] In the 2002-03 season, working together with musicologist John Powell, Magnificat assembled a program of music that Charpentier composed for stage works of Thomas Corneille (Circé, 1675 and La Pierre Philosophale, 1681) and Raymond Poisson (Les Fous Divertissants, 1680.) With these theatrical works – ranging from pastoral airs to lunatic raving, we returned to the entertaining world of the Le Malade Imaginaire. John’s informative program notes for these concerts can be read here. […]

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Comment on Charpentier's Music for the Grand Dauphin by Magnificat’s Love Affair with Charpentier | Magnificat

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:42:52 +0000

[…] for the stage works of Moliere, Corneille and others, the intimate petits motets for the “Dauphin’s Music” and the sublime histoires sacreés from his time at the Jesuit Church of St. Louis and later […]

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