The Lagrime di San Pietro (Italian: Saint Peter's Tears) is a cycle of 20 madrigals and a concluding motet by the late Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus. It is structured as three sequences of seven compositions in each sequence and is for seven voices. It was also his last composition, written in 1594, and published posthumously in Munich in 1595. He dedicated it to Pope Clement VIII on May 24, 1594, just three weeks before his death.
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The Lagrime sets 20 poems by the Italian poet Luigi Tansillo (1510–1568) depicting the stages of grief experienced by St. Peter after his denial of Christ, and his memory of Christ's admonition (Matthew 26:69–75). The settings by Lassus are for seven voices, and numerical symbolism plays a part throughout: the seven voices represent the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary; in addition many of the madrigals are in seven sections. The total number of pieces in the set, 21, represents seven times the number of members of the trinity.
Roland de Lassus (also Orlande de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, or Roland de Lattre; 1532, possibly 1530 – 14 June 1594) was a Netherlandish or Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and one of the three most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century (the other two being Palestrina and Victoria).
Life
Lassus was born in Mons in the County of Hainaut, Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). Information about his early years is scanty, although some uncorroborated stories have survived, the most famous of which is that he was kidnapped three times because of the singular beauty of his singing voice. At the age of twelve, he left the Low Countries with Ferrante Gonzaga and went to Mantua, Sicily, and later Milan (from 1547 to 1549). While in Milan, he made the acquaintance of the madrigalist Spirito l'Hoste da Reggio, a formative influence on his early musical style.
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Score of Orlando di Lasso's "Lagrime di San Pietro" ('Tears of Saint Peter'), a set of twenty spiritual madrigals in vernacular and a final motet in latin, composed in 1594. The madrigals are based on twenty poems written by Luigi Tansillo about the stages of grief St. Peter had to endure after his denial of Christ. Dedicated to Pope Clement VIII three weeks before his death and published posthumously the next year, it was Lassus' last composition and is considered one of his most important and mature works and even a landmark of Renaissance polyphony.
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Orlando di Lasso (1532 - 1594): La nuict froide et sombre
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Score of Orlando di Lasso's "Lagrime di San Pietro" ('Tears of Saint Peter'), a set of twenty spiritual madrigals in vernacular and a final motet in latin, composed in 1594. The madrigals are based on twenty poems written by Luigi Tansillo about the stages of grief St. Peter had to endure after his denial of Christ. Dedicated to Pope Clement VIII three weeks before his death and published posthumously the next year, it was Lassus' last composition and is considered one of his most important and mature works and even a landmark of Renaissance polyphony.
There has been a lot of numerological speculation, implying the constant appearance of the number 7. The set is written for seven voices (that could represent the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary, to whom he seems to allude as an abbreviation in the preface), many of the madrigals are structured in seven main sections (following the main cadences), and the work uses the first seven gregorian/church modes in a well ordered way (deliberately leaving the eight one out); in top of that, the total number of pieces could be interpreted as seven times the number of members of the Trinity (7*3=21). Be that as it may, I have followed this idea and decided to artificially divide the work into three main sequences.
00:00 - (Introduction)
00:15 - 15. Vattene vita va
02:44 - 16. O vita troppo rea
05:15 - 17. A quanti già felici
07:44 - 18. Non trovava mia fé
10:09 - 19. Queste opre e più
12:24 - 20. Negando il mio signor
14:55 - 21. Vide homo [Final motet]
Performers: Musica Ficta Copenhagen, Bo Holten (conductor)
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Score of Orlando di Lasso's "Lagrime di San Pietro" ('Tears of Saint Peter'), a set of twenty spiritual madrigals in vernacular and a final motet in latin, composed in 1594. The madrigals are based on twenty poems written by Luigi Tansillo about the stages of grief St. Peter had to endure after his denial of Christ. Dedicated to Pope Clement VIII three weeks before his death and published posthumously the next year, it was Lassus' last composition and is considered one of his most important and mature works and even a landmark of Renaissance polyphony.
There has been a lot of numerological speculation, implying the constant appearance of the number 7. The set is written for seven voices (that could represent the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary, to whom he seems to allude as an abbreviation in the preface), many of the madrigals are structured in seven main sections (following the main cadences), and the work uses the first seven gregorian/church modes in a well ordered way (deliberately leaving the eight one out); in top of that, the total number of pieces could be interpreted as seven times the number of members of the Trinity (7*3=21). Be that as it may, I have followed this idea and decided to artificially divide the work into three main sequences.
00:00 - (Introduction)
00:15 - 15. Vattene vita va
02:44 - 16. O vita troppo rea
05:15 - 17. A quanti già felici
07:44 - 18. Non trovava mia fé
10:09 - 19. Queste opre e più
12:24 - 20. Negando il mio signor
14:55 - 21. Vide homo [Final motet]
Performers: Musica Ficta Copenhagen, Bo Holten (conductor)
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Score of Orlando di Lasso's "Lagrime di San Pietro" ('Tears of Saint Peter'), a set of twenty spiritual madrigals in vernacular and a final motet in latin, composed in 1594. The madrigals are based on twenty poems written by Luigi Tansillo about the stages of grief St. Peter had to endure after his denial of Christ. Dedicated to Pope Clement VIII three weeks before his death and published posthumously the next year, it was Lassus' last composition and is considered one of his most important and mature works and even a landmark of Renaissance polyphony.
There has been a lot of numerological speculation, implying the constant appearance of the number 7. The set is written for seven voices (that could represent the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary, to whom he seems to allude as an abbreviation in the preface), many of the madrigals are structured in seven main sections (following the main cadences), and the work uses the first seven gregorian/church modes in a well ordered way (deliberately leaving the eight one out); in top of that, the total number of pieces could be interpreted as seven times the number of members of the Trinity (7*3=21). Be that as it may, I have followed this idea and decided to artificially divide the work into three main sequences.
00:00 - (Introduction)
00:15 - 15. Vattene vita va
02:44 - 16. O vita troppo rea
05:15 - 17. A quanti già felici
07:44 - 18. Non trovava mia fé
10:09 - 19. Queste opre e più
12:24 - 20. Negando il mio signor
14:55 - 21. Vide homo [Final motet]
Performers: Musica Ficta Copenhagen, Bo Holten (conductor)
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The Lagrime di San Pietro (Italian: Saint Peter's Tears) is a cycle of 20 madrigals and a concluding motet by the late Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus. It is structured as three sequences of seven compositions in each sequence and is for seven voices. It was also his last composition, written in 1594, and published posthumously in Munich in 1595. He dedicated it to Pope Clement VIII on May 24, 1594, just three weeks before his death.
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The Lagrime sets 20 poems by the Italian poet Luigi Tansillo (1510–1568) depicting the stages of grief experienced by St. Peter after his denial of Christ, and his memory of Christ's admonition (Matthew 26:69–75). The settings by Lassus are for seven voices, and numerical symbolism plays a part throughout: the seven voices represent the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary; in addition many of the madrigals are in seven sections. The total number of pieces in the set, 21, represents seven times the number of members of the trinity.