Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ; Ballo in onore dell'Imperatore Ferdinando IIIo della casa d'Austria ; Amor che deggio far
Subtitle: (Canzonetta)
By: Monteverdi
Contributors: Tegani, Emma; Carbi, Claudia; Nobile, Alfredo; Fait, Renato; Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595; Complesso monteverdiano di Milano; Madrigalisti Milanesi
Publisher: Vox
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: ita
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Operas; Ballets; Italian Madrigals; Part-songs, Italian
Other titles: Ballo in onore dell'Imperatore Ferdinando IIIo della casa d'Austria.; Amor che deggio far?
Work titles: Madrigals, book 8. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Notes: The 1st work a dramatic narration "to be performed in the manner of a masque," originally for 3 voices, 4 viols, and continuo; the 2nd work in part a ballet.

Sung in Italian.

Durations: 19:17; 10:15; 4:25.

Program notes by Virgilio Mortari include English translation of the preface to the Eighth book of madrigals, the libretto of the 1st work (from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and texts of the 2nd and 3rd works, with English translations by Julius Elias on container.

Emma Tegani, soprano, Claudia Carbi, mezzo-soprano, Alfredo Nobile, tenor, Complesso monteverdiano di Milano, Albert Soresino, harpsichord (1st work) ; Madrigalisti Milanesi, with string orchestra (2nd-3rd works) ; Renato Fait, conductor.

Recorded in Italy.