It's difficult to figure out from the cover, or from Internet images, what all is going on in this fine release by Montreal's Les Voix Baroques and Consort Les Voix Humaines. Even the booklet doesn't help much, going into great detail about a semi-theatrical comic work from 1604 by Monteverdi's contemporary Orazio Vecchi; only two small sections ...
Alpha Productions' L'Astrée, performed by the early music ensemble Faenza under the direction of Marco Horvat, presents a musical counterpoint to the early seventeenth century French novel The Two Faces of Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, published in five parts between 1607 and 1628; its author -- a gentleman soldier -- died in battle before the book ...
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