Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Quarto Libro de Madrigali (Venice, 1603):

Quel augellin che cantata

Luci serene e chiare

Si ch’io vorrei morire

A un giro sol de’ begl’occhi lucenti

Il Primo Libro de Madrigali (1587):

Se per havervi oimè

Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali (Venice, 1614):

Zefiro torna e’ l bel tempo rimena

Granados

The Lover and the Nightingale (Piano)

Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

Madrigali:

Six ‘Fire Songs’on Italian Renaissance Poems

John Rutter (b. 1944)

Movements from Birthday Madrigals

Fats Waller and Harry Brooks arr. Peter Gritton

Ain’t misbehavin’

George Shearing arr. Andrew Carter

Lullaby of birdland

Gershwin arr. Roderick Williams

Summer time

George and Ira Gershwin

I got rhythm