Monteverdi - Vorrei baciarti
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Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge
RecommendedRandall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Scotting borrows your heart in Monteverdi’s ‘Con che soavità’ when a lover asks how can one speak and kiss at the same time, while conductor Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Sara Mingardo: Monteverdi, Vivaldi & Handel
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
A genuine contralto with accompaniments of vivid spontaneity by Rinaldo Alessandrini — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Amore e morte dell’amore
Duets by Monteverdi, Marcello, Handel, Scarlatti, Lotti, Durante
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto) & Luca Pianca (lute, conductor)
Throughout the disc the continuo battery of Ensemble Claudiana provides colourful support...But the disc belongs to Invernizzi and Prina, who aptly cap a feast of glorious Handelian virtuosity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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…I Fagiolini are at their best in the quietly pastoral pieces. 'Rimanti in pace' is an early masterpiece from Book 3, sung with the tenderest of touches at the melting harmonies, and 'Lagrime... — More…
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Book 7 (1619) gathers together works that must have been written many years apart. The common denominator is its consistent use of instruments in conjunction with the voices. Recording the complete... — More…
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Monteverdi - Madrigali erotici
Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Poppy Holdon (soprano), Paul Elliott, Andrew King (tenors), Richard Wistreich (baritone) & David Thomas (bass)
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
Most of the madrigals on this CD come from the Seventh Book of 1619, very much a watershed in Monteverdi’s output. In many instances they are for virtuoso singers and make a break with the past... — More…
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Festa Teatrale: Carnival in Venice & Florence
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock
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Special offer. Parole e Querele d’Amore: Madrigali a due voci
Music by Monteverdi, Sances, Strozzi, Rognoni, Valentini, Carissimi
Agnès Mellon (soprano), Dominique Visse (countertenor), Eric Bellocq (theorbo), Marianne Muller (viol da gamba), Marco Horvat (lirone), Brice Sailly (harpsichord/organ)
Mellon and Visse here make a thrilling duo: her silky soprano the perfect complement to his plangent countertenor...producing performances that combine playfulness, passion, youthful spirit... — More…
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The countertenor duet in Ohimè dov'è il mio ben is ravishing, and is accompanied by some brilliantly stylish playing n the harpsichord by Carmen Leoni… — More…
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