La bella piu bella: Songs from early baroque Italy

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This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: GCD922902
Label: Glossa
Length: 78 minutes

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Giulio Romano: Strana armonia d'amore

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Ferrari, Benedetto: Son ruinato, appassionato

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Piccinini: Toccata No. 5

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Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Caccini, G: Dolcissimo sospiro

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Caccini, G: Dalla porta d'oriente

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Caccini, G: Torna, deh torna

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Kapsberger: Ciaccona

Work length1:27

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Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Rossi, Luigi: La bella più bella

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Carissimi: Piangete, aure piangete

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Kapsberger: Libro D'Intavolatura di Lauto

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Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Libro I d'intavolatura di lauto: Toccata No. 6

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Rossi, Luigi: A qual dardo il cor si deve

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Strozzi: Udite amanti

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

Strozzi: Mi fà rider la speranza

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

Castaldi: Tasteggio soave

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Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Merula: Folle e ben che si crede

Work length2:37

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

India: Crud'Amarilli, che col nom'ancora

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

India: Intenerite voi, lagrime mie

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

Piccinini: Aria di saravanda in varie partite

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Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Kapsberger: Ninna nanna

Work length5:09

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali

Work length2:17

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)

Scherzi musicali cioe arie et madrigali, SV 246-251: No. 4. 1a parte: Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armato, SV 249

Track length2:17

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Monteverdi: Eri già tutta mia

Work length2:18

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

Eri gia tutta mia: Eri gia tutta mia

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Monteverdi: Voglio di vita uscir, voglio che cadano

Work length4:41

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Craig Marchitelli (archlute)
Recorded: February 2012
Recording Venue: Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovi, Italy

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Known for her dazzling and elegant displays in the music of the later Baroque the Milanese singer has also nurtured, across her career, the more delicate and nuanced art of the Italian song repertory from the early 17th century. It was a time when courtly and polyphonic expression were giving way to the “moving of the emotions” by a solo singer accompanied by a single instrument. Renato Dolcini guides us through the musical evolution of this form in his illuminating booklet essay.

'La bella più bella' sees Roberta Invernizzi sailing gracefully across the terrain of such monody in songs composed by the likes of Kapsberger (his Ninna nanna), Giulio Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, as well as Luigi Rossi, whose dream-like piece provides the album with its title. Three of Claudio Monteverdi’s later works conclude this recital, in which lutenist and theorbist Craig Marchitelli accompanies, and also contributes a number of solo pieces, by Kapsberger, Castaldi and Piccinini.

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May 2014

This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others made hot and heavy with vibrato, and her fioritura in Monteverdi's Voglio di vita uscir is coruscating.

June 2014

Invernizzi's delivery is forthright, refusing to relax and bloom into vibrato until the very last, digging deep into the suspensions that give this music its emotional friction. She delivers operatic scope within the intimate framework of a vocal recital...Recorded close, this disc has all the brightness and directness of a live performance.

La bella piu bella

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