L'onde de miei pensier

The words of L'onde de miei pensier paint a turbulent scene where thoughts carry the heart between hope and fear, struck by love's lightning or chilled by sorrow's tempest. At times a fog of pain obscures the way, at others a blinding light of the supernatural dazzles. Lost and adrift, the heart passes through the rocks of ruin and death. Giovanni Andrea Dragoni, a master of the Italian madrigal, sets this dramatic text for SATTB voices. His intricate part-writing captures the emotional extremes of the poetry, creating a rich and complex sound world for this secular Renaissance work.