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Offer,Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Charles Daniels (Orfeo), Faye Newton (Euridice), Emily Van Evera (Messaggiera), Clare Wilkinson (Speranza/Proserpina), Curtis Streetman (Caronte), Christopher Purves (Plutone), Anna Dennis (Ninfa), Guy Pelc (Apollo)

Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott

Daniels is magnificent in the title role - technically brilliant...impassioned...and lyrically supple...The rest of the cast is also good...Faye Newton is a pure and effective Euridice...As one... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2013
Catalogue No: AV2278
Label: Avie
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

September 2013

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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Work length1:43:14

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Anna Dennis, Rodrigo del Pozo, Charles Daniels, Faye Newton, soprano, Gareth Morrell, Charles Daniel, Claire Wilkinson, Curtis Streetman, Taverner Players, Christopher Purves, Faye Newton, David Hurley, Simon Wall, Emily van Evera, Guy Pelc, Robert Macdonald, James Arthur, Richard Latham
Taverner Consort
Andrew Parrott

L'Orfeo: Toccata

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L'Orfeo, Prologue: Ritornello – "Dal mio Permesso amato"

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"In questo lieto e fortunato giorno"

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"Vieni Imeneo, deh vieni"

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"Muse, honor di Parnaso"

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Balletto – "Lasciate i monti"

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"Ma tu gentil cantor"

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"Rosa del Ciel, vita del Mondo"

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"Io non dirò"

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"Balletto – Lasciate i monti"

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"Vieni Imeneo, deh vieni"

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"Ma s’il nostro gioir"

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Ritornello – "Alcun non sia"

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Sinfonia – "Ecco pur ch’a voi ritorno"

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Ritornello – "Vi ricorda o boschi ombrosi"

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"Mira, deh mira Orfeo"

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"Ahi caso acerbo"

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"In un fiorito prato"

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"Tu se’ morta"

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"Ahi caso acerbo"

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"Ma io"

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Sinfonia – "Chi ne consola ahi lassi?"

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Sinfonia

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"Scorto da te mio Nume"

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"Ecco l’atra palude"

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"Dove, ah dove te n’ vai"

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"O tu ch’innanzi morte"

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Sinfonia – "Possente Spirto"

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"Ben mi lusinga alquanto"

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"Ahi sventurato amante"

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Sinfonia – "Ei dorme"

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Sinfonia – "Nulla impresa per huom"

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"Signor quell’infelice"

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"Benchè severo & immutabil fato"

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"Quali grazie ti rendo"

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"Ecco il gentil cantore"

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"O dolcissimi lumi"

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Sinfonia – "È la virtute un raggio"

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Ritornello – "Questi i campi di Tracia"

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Sinfonia – "Perchè a lo sdegno & al dolor"

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"Saliam cantando al Cielo"

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Ritornello - "Vanne Orfeo felice a pieno"

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Moresca

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Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort & Players offer a magnificent recording of the world's first operatic masterpiece, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Befitting such an outstanding recording, the 2-CD set is luxuriously packaged with extensive notes and the complete libretto with English translations in a 52-page booklet.

Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort & Players celebrate their 40th anniversary with a marvellous recording of the world's first operatic masterpiece, Monteverdi's L’Orfeo. As can be expected from Andrew Parrott, who has been at the centre of the early and baroque music scene for over four decades, his meticulous research results in a performance and stylistic approach that brings a fresh perspective to the myth of love lost and found through the art of music. His scholarship, combined with the collaborative nature of the Taverners, translates into a performance brought to life by the finest singers and instrumentalists in the early music world, including tenor Charles Daniels who is the superb Orfeo.

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September 2013

Daniels is magnificent in the title role - technically brilliant...impassioned...and lyrically supple...The rest of the cast is also good...Faye Newton is a pure and effective Euridice...As one may expect from Andrew Parrott, the instruments are very adroitly deployed and controlled.

June 2013

the Avie set favours near-vibrato-less singers of ambiguous fach - proper voices indeed (not the vernacular singing occasionally heard in Monteverdi) but not necessarily ones you'd typically hear in modern opera houses...More than usual, instrumentalists are active story-telling participants.

July/August 2013

We can hear Parrott's approach most clearly in Orfeo himself...Daniels reserves his emotional outbursts for a very few key moments...In the same vein, Emily van Evera does the tricky Messenger scene with chilling simplicity...'Possente spirto' - the highlight of the work - is a triumph...I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed by [Daniels's] techique of his formidable subtlety.

19th May 2013

Charles Daniels gives a sensitive and intimate portrayal of the part of Orfeo. Under Parrott’s direction, the first-rate team of instrumentalists further enrich our experience in a shapely reading of a still lovely, still fresh masterpiece.

24th May 2013

the presentation is faithful to the original small-scale salon performances, which were more like poetic oratorios than grand opera. Thus, colourful singing is eschewed in favour of an almost spoken-sung recitative, with comparatively undemonstrative accompaniment from sparse instruments

26th May 2013

This new version of Monteverdi's Orfeo is thoroughly researched and reimagined...a gentle, lyrical vision of a miraculous opera.

18th May 2013

with Charles Daniels and Faye Newton superb as Orfeo and Euridice, and sensual singing and playing, this is the most beguiling Monteverdi opera recording for years.

Offer,Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

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