Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2004) more music like this

performed by Alice Coote (vocals), Carolyn Sampson (vocals), Christopher Maltman (vocals), Emmanuelle Haïm (regal), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Emmanuelle Haïm (organ), Ian Bostridge (vocals), Les Sacqueboutiers, Lorenzo Regazzo (vocals), Malcolm Bennett (vocals)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

After almost 400 years, you might think Monteverdi's L'Orfeo would have lost its luster. But in the right hands it can still be deeply exciting, allowing you to relive the birth of an electric and emotionally charged new art form. Emmanuelle Haïm's new L'Orfeo, starring Ian Bostridge, is that kind of experience. It combines truly electric ...

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Bach: Matthew Passion [SACD] (2008) more music like this

performed by Annie Gill (alto), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass), Cecilia Osmond (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Malcolm Bennett (tenor), Matthew Brook (baritone), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Susan Hamilton (soprano), Dunedin Consort (choir, chorus), Dunedin Players
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

Fresh from the success of a 2006 Classic FM Gramophone Award-winning recording of the Dublin version of Messiah, conductor John Butt and the Dunedin Consort and Players have turned to Bach's Matthew Passion. This is an even more radical departure from traditional performing practice than the Consort's 12-member chorus for Messiah, which drew the ...

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