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Clorinda e Tancredi
Love scenes by Claudio Monteverdi
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (soprano), Luca Dordolo (tenor), Riccardo Pisani (tenor), Davide Benetti (bass) & Marco Mencoboni (harpsichord, direction)
Cantar Lontano
[Dordolo’s] firm clear diction and sensitive rhetorical control, which at times moves into a kind of speech-song, extracts every last ounce of carefully calculated drama from Monteverdi’s narrow... — More…
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Arias for Domenico Gizzi
A star castrato in Baroque Rome
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
I Turchini, Antonio Florio
Invernizzi is sovereign, commanding the band with the authority of an absolute ruler. Her execution dazzles through its seeming ease, as even fiendishly difficult passages yield to her delight... — More…
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Handel: Lucio Cornelio Silla, HWV10
Sonia Prina (Silla), Martina Belli (Claudio), Sunhae Im (Metella), Vivica Genaux (Lepido), Roberta Invernizzi (Flavia), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Celia), Luca Tittoto (Il Dio)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Genaux navigates tricky coloratura splendidly as Lepido, whose lover Flavia is sung eloquently by Roberta Invernizzi … Listeners might enjoy Biondi’s sheen of vitality. — More…
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Vivica Genaux (Romeo), Valentina Farcas (Giulietta), Davide Giusti (Tebaldo), Fabrizio Beggi (Lorenzo), Ugo Guagliardo (Capellio)
Belcanto Chorus & Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
[Biondi's] insistence on intimacy is underpinned by an alert period band - with fortepiano added to the ensemble - and smallish chorus. Instrumentally the reading constantly refreshes listening... — More…
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Campra: Le Carnaval de Venise
Salomé Haller (Isabelle), Marina de Liso (Léonore), Andrew Foster-Williams (Rodolphe), Alain Buet (Léandre), Mathias Vidal (Orphée), Sarah Tynan (Euridice), Blandine Staskiewicz (Minerve/La Fortune), Luigi de Donato (Le Carnaval/Pluton)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet directs a fine instrumental ensemble whose players are entirely at ease with the score's stylistic niceties. The singing is more variable, though Salome Haller is magnificent as... — More…
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Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali
Recorded Chiesa di San Carlo, Modena (Italy), in February 2008
Emanuela Galli (soprano)
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina
…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.... — More…
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Un opéra pour trois rois (An Opera for Three Kings)
A Versailles entertainment for Louis XIV, XV, XVI Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck
Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Emőke Baráth (soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone)
Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Conducted expertly by György Vashegyi, the Budapest-based Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra produce characterful panache, heroic swagger, balletic deftness and suave charm as each selection... — More…
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Handel: Imeneo
Magnus Staveland (Imeneo), Ann Hallenberg (Tirinto), Monica Piccinini (Rosmene), Fabrizio Beggi (Argenio), Cristiana Arcari (Clomiri) & Fabio Biondi (violin & direction)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Biondi shapes a performance in which the depth of preparation results in music-making that sounds entirely spontaneous. There's a startling variety of articulation and colour from his tiny band,... — More…
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Charpentier, M-A: La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers
Cyril Auvity (Orphée), Céline Scheen (Eurydice), Etienne Bazola (Pluton), Floriane Hasler (Proserpine), Maïlys de Villoutreys (Daphné), Virgile Ancely (Apollon & Titye), Jeanne Crousaud (Œnone), Dagmar Saskova (Aréthuze), Kevin Skelton (Ixion), Guillaume Gutierrez (Tantale), François-Nicolas...
It is Orphée who carries the entire weight of the piece…Not surprisingly the experienced Cyril Auvity grasps the opportunity avidly…The remainder of the cast once again testify to the depth... — More…
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