Chi vuol udire

This Italian madrigal for three voices (STB) by Girolamo Scotto opens with a lively interplay between the parts, each line of text being passed from one voice to another. The composer sets a lament of unrequited love, where the singer laments his sighs and tears, scattered in vain. He asks his beloved ladies to read his sorrow in the landscape around him, for every valley is already full of his sighs. The music reflects the searching, restless quality of the text, with moments of pathos interspersed with more agile passages.