Every Friday we choose a monitor from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to offer the accompaniment for 5 minutes of your downtime.
This week’s choose from the Naxos label (8.555310) is taken from Monteverdi’s Fourth Guide of Madrigals, printed in 1603. The gathering continued the expressive innovation that had characterised his Third Guide, with texts dealing primarily with the expression of craving and ache brought on by the vicissitudes of affection, not least within the erotic cost heard in our chosen monitor, Sì, ch’io vorrei morire (Sure, I’d die).
