Lagrime di San Pietro [3/3] - Orlando di Lasso (Score)

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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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