MONTEVERDI'S MADRIGALS sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS
Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
A Madrigal in Five Parts (from
Guarini's Pastor Fido)' i. Ecco Silvio (To you, Silvo)
2. Ma se con la pieta (But if you still have pity)
3. Dorinda, ah diro (Dorinda mine) 4. Ecco piegando (Can the dust upon my knees)
5. Ferir quel petto (To wound that bosom)
(from The 5th Book of Madrigals for
Five Voices (1605))
(An article on Monteverdi, on page 424, is by G. Francesco Malipiero , who has edited the whole of Monteverdi's Madrigals. It is from his edition that the Madrigals are being sung this week.)