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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Monteverdi - Lamento Della NinfaAltri Canti di Marte, Libri VII & VIII
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie “Some minor tuning problems, but the singing is spirited, and the interplay between voices and instruments in Tirsi e Clori a delight.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Monteverdi - Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Trudeliese Schmidt, Kurt Equiluz, Werner Hollweg & Felicity Palmer Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Baroque Voices 20 - Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfaand madrigals from the 8th book
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini In the Lamento della Ninfa, Monteverdi developed a completely new style, with amazing intensity and impressive dramatic power. This recording by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano was a “Gramophone Award Winner” in the year of its release. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Claudio Monteverdi - Chamber Duets & Selected Madrigals
Il complesso barocco, Alan Curtis | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosiThe 8th Book of Madrigals
Bernarda Fink, Maria Christina Kiehr, Antonio Abete, Victor Torres, et al. Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs “A thrilling set.” Sunday Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Musicke Instrumental Consort Ensemble, Anthony Rooley | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali, Vol. I
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Le Concert Astrée, Emmanuelle Haim Emmanuelle Haim follows her 2006 recording of Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with an unusual and inventive programme on the theme of the Lamento, the literary and dramatic form that found its seventeenth-century musical archetype in Monteverdi’s celebrated Lamento d’Arianna. Emmanuelle Haim has taken great care in choosing 9 soloists to perform these demanding works amongst which Véronique Gens sings the Lamento d’Arianna, the tantalising fragment from Monteverdi’s lost opera of 1608; Natalie Dessay is the abandoned nymph in the very different Lamento della ninfa from the Eighth Book of Madrigals. Alongside these familiar works by Monteverdi the programme includes Philippe Jaroussky in Barbara Strozzi’s dramatic monologue L’Eraclito amoroso, probably written for Strozzi herself, Carissimi’s Lamento di Maria Stuarda (with Patrizia Ciofi) and Strozzi’s teacher Cavalli’s Lamento d’Egisto (with Rolando Villazón, who also sings Orfeo’s Lamento). Joyce DiDonato, recently signed to EMI/Virgin Classics as an exclusive artist, adds Ottavia’s heartrending farewell to Rome from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. “Haim is pure dynamite” Daily Telegraph “Haim’s meteoric rise has been well charted by the press. It’s easy to understand the excitement - her enthusiasm is infectious, her conducting demeanour distinctive, and her knowledge intense.” Gramophone Magazine “Waif-like, driven, messianic or explosive, non-conformist, unruly, either way, the conductor Emmanuelle Haim has enough charisma to draw crowds in her wake. Haim is the most dynamic force to have hit the period movement since the 1970s. She’s a born leader” Financial Times “This all-star cast includes the ravishing Natalie Dessay as Monteverdi's forsaken nymph, Véronique Gens, a proud, desolate Ariadne, and Joyce DiDonato, who sings Octavia's farewell with extraordinary dramatic passion. Much of the interest of this disc lies in its subtleties, Emmanuelle Haïm highlighting telling details...” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ***** “A starry host of singers bring their talents to bear on Haïm's programme” Gramophone Magazine, January 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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The Netherlands Bach Society and Cappella Figuralis, Jos van Veldhoven Exceptionally intelligently planned, and beautifully executed and engineered, this cd is urgently recommended to all with any interest in 17th-century music. - Fanfare | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Margareta Enevold (soprano), Kristian Buhl-Mortensen (lute), Lone Ekstrand (gamba) Camerata Chamber Choir, Stockholm Motet Choir, Per Enevold, Dan-Olof Stenlund | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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