Piangete
Cantatas & Motets by Giacomo Carissimi

Concerto Delle Donne
Gill Ross
Donna Deam
Elin Manahan Thomas
Alastair Ross
David Miller

Performance Notes

Harpsichord by Richard Clayson and Andrew Garrett, a copy of an instrument by Giacomo Ridolfi (1665) in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. We are very grateful to Ruth Holton and Nicky Mitchell for lending this instrument to us.

Chamber Organ by Alan Gotto, kindly lent by Claire Hammett.

1	Giacomo Carissimi: Motet Cum reverteretur David	a	b	c	d		f	[4:09]
2	Carissimi: Motet Benedictus Deus et Pater	a	b	c	d		f	[4:30]
3	Girolamo Frescobaldi: Parte sopra lamonicha					e		[7:17]
4	Carissimi: Motet Exulta, gaude, filia Sion	a		c	d		f	[5:07]
5	Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: Toccata XI						f	[2:01]
6	Carissimi: Cantata Va dimanda al mio pensiero			c		e	f	[5:38]
7	Kapsperger: Prelude XI						f	[0:36]
8	Carissimi: Motet O dulcissimum Mariae nomen	a	b		d		f	[3:31]
9	Carissimi: Cantata Siam tre miseri piangenti	a	b	c	d		f	[8:16]
10	Michelangelo Rossi: Toccata Settima					e		[4:07]
11	Carissimi: Motet Surrexit pastor bonus	a	b	c	d		f	[2:23]
12	Carissimi: Cantata Ahi, non torna		b	c		e	f	[5:06]
13	Carissimi: Cantata Piangete, ohimè piangete	a					f	[5:42]
14	Kapsperger: Prelude X						f	[0:54]
15	Carissimi: Cantata Si dia bando, alla speranza		b			e	f	[3:47]
16	Carissimi: Motet Omnes gentes gaudete cum victore	a	b	c	d		f	[3:39]
	Total running time:							[66:24]

Editions

Carissimi:

Cum reverteretur David: G. Carissimi, Le opere complete, ed. L. Bianchi and others (Rome, 1951-)

Benedictus Deus et Pater: Andrew Jones, The Motets of Carissimi (Ann Arbor, 1982)

Exulta, gaude, filia Sion: Andrew Jones, The Motets of Carissimi (Ann Arbor, 1982)

Va dimanda al mio pensiero: Christ Church Oxford, manuscript ed. Alastair Ross

O dulcissimum Mariae nomen: Andrew Jones, The Motets of Carissimi (Ann Arbor, 1982)

Siam tre miseri piangenti: Christ Church Oxford, manuscript ed. Alastair Ross

Surrexit pastor bonus: King’s Music, ed. Brian Clark (Manuscript from University Library, Uppsala, Sweden, dated 1665)

Ahi, non torna: G. Carissimi, Le opere complete, ed. L. Bianchi and others (Rome, 1951-)

Piangete ohimè piangete: Italian Arias of the Baroque and Classical Eras, Alfred Publishing Co.Inc.,
ed. John Glenn Paton

Si dia bando, alla speranza: King’s Music, ed. Brian Clark (Manuscript from University Library, Uppsala, Sweden, dated 1665)

Omnes gentes gaudete cum victore: King’s Music, ed. Brian Clark (Manuscript from University Library, Uppsala, Sweden, dated 1665)

Frescobaldi:

Parte sopra lamonicha: The First Book of Toccatas & Partitas, Bärenreiter , ed. P. Pidoux (Rome, 1637)

Kapsperger:

Toccata XI, Prelude XI and Prelude X: Libro quarto d’intavolatura di chitarrone (Rome, 1640)

Rossi:

Toccata Settima: Works for keyboard, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, ed.John R. White 

Credits

We are extremely grateful to Barbara Diana for so generously giving her time coaching our Italian and translating the Italian texts, and to Andrew Jones for making his editions available to us, and giving us much helpful advice on sources of the music.