Best Monody
Intenerite voi, lagrime mie is an Italian vocal work by Sigismondo d'India, a composer active during the transition from the late Renaissance to the early Baroque. The piece exemplifies his expressive treatment of poetic text through chromatic movement, dissonance, and abrupt harmonic contrasts asso...
Italian madrigal by Sigismondo d'India (c.1582–c.1629) setting a Guarini text also famously set by Monteverdi, exemplifying d'India's expressive early Baroque vocal style.
"Il lamento di Olimpia" is an extended dramatic monody composed by Italian early Baroque composer Sigismondo d'India, setting an episodic text drawn from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. It was published in the 1620s and exemplifies d'India's expressive solo-voice style, with declamatory recitati...
Italian madrigal by Sigismondo d'India reflecting the bitter-sweet affective intensity of early 17th-century Italian music through bold harmonic contrasts.
Italian madrigal by Sigismondo d'India (c.1582–c.1629), an early Baroque composer renowned for his expressive monody and chromatic harmonic language.
Italian madrigal by Sigismondo d'India evoking the return of the west wind Zephyr, drawing on pastoral imagery common in his secular vocal works.
