MDR-Musiksommer: Heimliche Liebe 1

In the organizer's words:

Members of the MDR Radio Choir
Sebastian Reim - Conductor

Madrigals and songs from six centuries by Carlo Gesualdo, Hans Leo Haßler, Orlando di Lasso, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann and others.

The madrigals that were composed in Italy during the Renaissance show how wonderfully a poem can be set to music and thus embellished. The madrigal was regarded as the supreme discipline in the art of composition at that time and developed as a poetic-musical form in close exchange with Italian poetry. The composers interpreted the text as vividly as possible and brought drama to the music. The expressive madrigals from the pen of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, whose exclusivity inspired vocal composers well into the 19th century, remain unsurpassed in this respect. Under the direction of Sebastian Reim, the singers of the MDR Radio Choir bring these beautiful sounds from different eras to life.