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Ciprian's madrigal "Io canterei d'amor" (1547) is one of my most favorite pieces. Of course its beauty lies in the sublime contrapuntal interwoven texture, but I tried to catch and enhance something of its character as I feel it, ornamenting (making so called diminutions of the plain melody lines) and jumping through all four voices in a way that its structure remains understandable although I play only one voice at a time. On a violin this would have been impossible, but with the viola tenore which is tuned one octave below the violin, here in 465 Hz, I can touch all voices from the luckily rather low soprano line of this madrigal down to some of the bass lines (which I enjoy very much as a violinist :)).
Text by Petrarca:
Io canterei d'amor si novamente
ch'al duro fiancho il dì mille sospiri
trarrei per forza, et mille alti desiri
racconterei ne la gelata mente;
E'l bel viso vedrei cangiar sovente,
et bagnar gli occhi, et più pietosi giri
far, come suol chi de gli altrui martiri
et del suo error quando non val si pente.
I would sing of love in so new a way
I would draw a thousand sighs
from that hard heart, and light a thousand
noble desires in that chill mind:
and I would see her often change expression,
and wet her eyes, and turn more pityingly,
like one who, when it's no use, repents
of other's suffering and her own error.
(translation by A.S. Kline)