Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Green-Clad Hills
Vestiva i colli - Pastoral Madrigal in Three Parts
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Green-Clad Hills
Vestiva i colli - Pastoral Madrigal in Three Parts
- Instrumentation Violin, Cello and Harpsichord
- Composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Editor Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde
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- Publisher Soundnotation
- Order no. 4251133779622-DL
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Description:
The 1566 madrigal "Vestiva i colli" from Palestrina's fifth book appears here in a chamber trio arrangement following the model of Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde (1638). The violin presents the bright, singing soprano line with clear lightness, the violoncello weaves alto and tenor in warm, resonant timbre-sometimes octaved, sometimes alternating to keep the polyphonic imitations alive. The harpsichord supplies a restrained basso continuo foundation. Thus Green-Clad Hills emerges: an intimate miniature where Palestrina's contrapuntal mastery meets the early Baroque sound world-a melancholic walk through verdant hills, carried by Renaissance clarity and Baroque warmth.