DESCRIPTION:
Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) : Barca di Venezia per Padova, a madrigal comedy composed in 1623. A film by Dutch designer Jaap Drupsteen, with explanatory texts by Gerrit Komrij (no subtitles).

Sung by Collegium Vocale Koeln : Michaela Kraemer and Gaby Ortmann-Rodens (sopranos), Wolfgang Fromme (counter-tenor), Helmut Clemens (tenor), Hans-Aldrich Billig (bas) and Juergen Huebscher (lute).

Film dates from 1982. Dutch texts spoken by Henk van Ulsen.