Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
Part One
1/5. Mantua in its heyday was host to one of the most brilliant courts in late Renaissance Italy. Thats where Claudio Monteverdi wrote what would prove to be the worlds first operatic masterpiece, LOrfeo.
Donald Macleod raises the curtain on Monteverdis dramatic music, from his most powerfully expressive madrigals to his lavish ballets and highly original operas.
Playlist
L'Orfeo - Toccata
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5456422
CD1 T1
Le Concert d'Astree
Emmanuelle Haim, director
De la Bellezza le dovute lodi
ERATO ECD 88032
T6
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, director
Madrigals from books 5:
Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora
O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia
T'amo mia vita
OPUS OPS 30-166
T1,2 & 17
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
L'Orfeo -
Act III: Possente spirto
Act IV complete
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5456422
CD2 T6-16, T19-30
Ian Bostridge Orfeo
Patrizia Ciofi Euridice
Veronique Gens Proserpina
Lorenzo Regazzo Pluto
Malcolm Bennett Spirits
Paul Thompson "
European Voices
Les Sacqueboutiers
Le Concert d'Astree
Emmanuelle Haim, director
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