This three-disc box combines several recordings by the Concerto Italiano and leader Rinaldo Alessandrini, dating back to 1998; the result is a complete set of Monteverdi's madrigals of Book Eight. The word "madrigal" was fast losing its meaning by this late stage in Monteverdi's career, and the works contained here are of various kinds. One can ...
Austerely agonized, excruciatingly ecstatic, and vocally virtuosic, this disc joining Alessandro Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus and Magnificat with five secular madrigals incarnates the notion of mannerism in music. Though self-consciously conservative, Scarlatti's music here is so expertly composed and so manifestly deeply felt that its extraordinary ...
Recordings of early guitar music often mix traditions and composers, looking for a pleasing balance, but this one is atypically in-depth. It may not be the disc to choose for the casual buyer looking for an hour of guitar music -- for one thing, the program contains music performed by various ensembles, some of them including a vocalist. But it's ...
L'Orfeo has become enough of a standard that it's no longer treated as a museum piece requiring reverential sobriety in its presentation, but even by modern standards, Naïve's recording must qualify as one of most uninhibited and vivacious on disc. This quality is not merely a matter of tempo, even though this version is overall somewhat faster ...
Rinaldo Alessandrini's brilliantly realized recording of Monteverdi's Vespers is an intimate, slightly pared down version of the early Baroque masterpiece. Working in the warm acoustic of Rome's Palazzo Farnese, he employs just one singer per part, and eliminates instrumental doublings in the choral movements except where they are expressly ...
Orlandus Lassus' Prophetiae Sibyllarum is the earliest known and weirdest of his 2,000 or so works, and it is isn't recorded very often. Although the first modern edition of Prophetiae Sibyllarum appeared as early as 1937, it was absent from record until Miroslav Venhoda and the Prague Madrigal Singers recorded it in Paris in 1963. In the four ...
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