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| |  | Recorded Teatro Massimo Palermo 1999
Ensemble Elyma, Coro Antonio II Verso & Madrigalia & Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulous, Gabriel Garrido | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Monteverdi - Sacred Vocal Music
“Music of exhilarating inspiration, superbly performed. A recording as near as may be to the ideal … for audiophile and music-lovers, this is essential” Hi-Fi News “One of the most beautiful records I have heard this year” The Guardian “There are few records of Monteverdi's solo vocal music as persuasive as this...the performances are outstanding, with the edge of Emma Kirkby's voice attractively presented in an aptly reverberant acoustic.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Sergiu Celibidache conducts Beethoven & Monteverdi
The Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and worked with Radio orchestras in Stockholm, Stuttgart and Paris. These are 1959 recordings. NB: the CD cover and sleeve-notes erroneously list Track 5 as the Magnificat from Monteverdi's Vespers. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Not Just Dowland
The programme, entitled ‘Not Just Dowland’ sets the father of English song alongside his contemporary Robert Johnson, who notably composed for the plays of Shakespeare, and the Italians Monteverdi, Grandi, Piccinini, Caccini and Merula. There are also instrumental items by Johnson, Ferrabosco, Rosseter and Kabsberger. “Everything was so perfect, the evening seemed to pass in a flash,” was The Independent’s verdict on the Wigmore Hall recital in December 2008 by soprano Carolyn Sampson and lutenist Matthew Wadsworth. “The soprano Carolyn Sampson is blessed with a lovely voice …and the lutenist Matthew Wadsworth … really is a class apart among exponents of this increasingly popular musical instrument.” “Carolyn Sampson’s pure soprano cossets the words, savouring their expressive implications, relishing their shifts of rhythm and subtly sighing with bliss, yearning or heartache, depending on the circumstances.” The Telegraph, 29th January 2010 **** “One of the chief delights... is the opportunity to hear the theorbo at close quarters...in the skilled hands of Matthew Wadsworth it takes centre stage, both as a solo instrument and as an exquisite companion to Carolyn Sampson's sweet, lyrical soprano...a ravishing programme of beguiling melancholia.” The Observer, 7th February 2010 “Wadsworth's lute and theorbo...craft a seamless expressive narrative...Sampson is careful never to over-egg the grief, always keeping in reserve extremities of emotion for the very darkest moments - and she never distorts the musical line by over-dramatisation.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2010 ***** “Carolyn Sampson and lutenist Matthew Wadsworth are well matched protagonists and in the main they cope equally well with both repertories. Sampson's diction is especially clear in the English selections, which come across very naturally.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 “Both artists respond with dark-shaded tones to a music that is touched by the aching melancholy of its time and place.” Sunday Times, 12th December 2010 *** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Margret Köll (triple harp) & Luca Pianca (lute) The title of this CD has been chosen because in the words of Luca Panca, “the composers which we have selected are truly musical giants.” As a principal harpist, Margret Köll has worked with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra and the Philharmonie der Nationen and has played in various ensembles. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | La Voce di Orfeo: A tribute to Francesco Rasi
Brunelli: | Non havea Febo ancora | Caccini, G: | Dolcissimo sospiro Dalla porta d'oriente | Despres: | Mille Regretz A nonimo “Porto celato il mio nobil pensiero”, Ms Torrefranca 250, f. 13-14 | Egüez: | Passamezzo Sinfonia | Ferrari, B: | Io son amante di un crin aurato | India: | Vorrei baciarti, o Filli Cara mia cetra Che vegg’io ohimè, Le musiche… a una et due v oci… libro IV Sovente allor | Monteverdi: | Air d'Orphee Rosa del ciel Solo di arpa dall’opera L’Orfeo Et è pur dunque vero | Rasi: | Fillia mia, Filli dolce È si lieto il mio core, madrigali di diversi autori In morte di Madonna Dove misero mai, madrigali di diversi autori Un guardo ohime ch’io moro, Madrigali di diversi autori… | Rinuccini: | Sfogava con le stelle | Tasso: | Madrigale “Amor l’ali m’impenna” |
Early music specialist, baritone Furio Zanasi and La Chimera pay tribute to the Italian singer, Francesco Rasi (1574-1621), one of the most fascinating musicians produced by the early Baroque era in Italy. The programme devised by La Chimera is organised in three sections, each of them representing one of the amatory conditions that Francesco Rasi regularly treated in the works he sang or composed. Francesco Rasi (1574-1621), poet, composer and singer, quickly established a reputation as an exceptional singer and a virtuoso exponent of the lute. His love of travelling saw him meet outstanding musicians including: Luca Marenzio, Jacapo Peri, Marco da Gagliano and Claudio Monteverdi. His splendid vocal talents in turn influenced these great composers, creating, for example, the title role in Monteverdi’s ‘Orfeo’. La Chimera was formed in 2001 as a viol ensemble by Sabina Colonna-Preti. Since meeting Eduardo Egüez and Quito Gato it has turned into a complete baroque ensemble. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Baroque Voices 27 - Monteverdi: 2nd Book of Madrigals
Respectful and sensitive attention to the meaning of the texts, a flexible, expressive treatment of tempo: therein lies the secret of these performances. Every nuance is superbly caught in Alessandrini’s much-praised vision of Monteverdi’s music. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Vanguard Alfred Deller Edition - Volume 5English, French & Italian Madrigals
135 Madrigals by Thomas Morley; John Wilbye; Thomas Weelkes; Robert Johnson; John Shepherd; Francis Pilkington; Orlando Gibbons; William Byrd; Josquin Desprez; Guillaume Costeley; Clément Janequin; Claudio Monteverdi; Luca Marenzio; Carlo Gesualdo (& others)
includes never-issued tracks and a free CDROM with all original details, LP covers etc | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Monteverdi - Scherzi MusicaliRecorded Chiesa di San Carlo, Modena (Italy), in February 2008
La Venexiana has recorded all eight volumes of Monteverdi's madrigals, the Selva morale e spirituale and L'Orfeo. Here we have the Scherzi musicali published in Venice by Bartolomeo Magni in 1632, although pieces from other publications, such as the Arie di diversi raccolte of Vincenti (1634) and the Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze of Milanuzzi (1624) are also included. By way of contrast, the finishing touch is provided by a dazzling and moving rendition of the Lamento di Arianna in an arrangement by Cavina himself, wherein the voice of Emanuela Galli, the star of this disc, is draped in a string ensemble led by Svetlana Fomina. “Purists may snip at the friskiness of Claudio Cavina’s period band in these mostly jocular Monteverdi madrigals — sometimes they seem about to discover baroque jazz. Those even more pedantic might cast aspersions at the solo soprano Emanuela Galli for her earthy timbre and for teasing the notes. Myself, I appreciate La Venexiana’s energy.” The Times, 8th August 2009 *** “Claudio Cavina's orchestration is discreet; Galli's singing blazingly theatrical; it's the perfect ending to a wonderfully varied and always imaginative recital.” The Guardian, 7th August 2009 **** (about Lamento d'Arianna) “It is a strange album of “musical jokes” that ends with one of the most heart-rending outpourings of grief ever written for the theatre: the Lamento d’Arianna...Here, in a discreet “orchestration” by Cavina, it is the climax of a programme by the soprano Emanuela Galli, sumptuous in tone, noble in demeanour and trenchant in delivery of the Italian text.” Sunday Times, 26th July 2009 **** “Claudio Cavina takes a flexible approach to what he calls Monteverdi's "light" music… Galli's breathy opening phrase of "Con que soavità" is exquisitely erotic… "Sì dolc'è il tormento" and "Et è pur dunque vero" both feature the effective combination of Doron David Sherwin's sensitive cornetto playing and Galli's emotive singing. The recital concludes with Cavina's new orchestration of the lament from the lost opera Arianna (1608); a sensuous string ensemble gives eloquent support to Galli, whose singing ideally conveys impassioned lamentation without becoming distorted.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 “…Emanuela Galli… brings panache and rhythmic flexibility to 'Quel sguardo', and plaintiveness to 'Si dolc'è il tormento' - helped by the jazzy languidity of Doron Sherwin's cornett playing. …a spirited disc full of interesting music.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2009 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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