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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances....
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances....
About
Monteverdi’s great opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composer’s most poignant, heart-breaking music.
After two brutal decades of war, the weary Ulysses is washed up on the rocky shore of his home island of Ithaca. There, he discovers the hordes of depraved admirers who have beseiged his faithful wife Penelope in his 20-year absence – and launches into battle to win back her love. Monteverdi’s opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composer’s most poignant, heartbreaking music.
John Eliot Gardiner leads an exemplary cast of world-class singers alongside the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in this live recording from The National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poland – part of their critically acclaimed Monteverdi 450 tour in 2017.
Contents and tracklist
- Krystian Adam (tenor), Francesca Boncompagni (soprano), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Michał Czerniawski (countertenor), Gianluca Buratto (bass), Gareth Treseder (tenor), Carlo Vistoli (countertenor), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Lucile Richardot (contralto), Francesca Biliotti (contralto), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), John Taylor Ward (bass), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (tenor), Robert Burt (tenor)
- English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 7-9 September 2017
- Recording Venue: The National Forum of Music, Wrocław, Poland
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2019Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards2019Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
January 2019
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances. Furio Zanasi, Lucile Richardot and Hana Blažiková bring a depth of acting almost without rival.
January 2019
Recitatives flicker and spark with detail…Instrumental textures are spare and speeds swift, and there’s a welcome sense of narrative drive…Text is king, but it’s the rhetoric of the English Baroque Soloists that really counts…Zanasi is a smooth, patrician Ulisse…There are more classically beautiful accounts of Il ritorno d’Ulisse available, but perhaps none with quite so much life.
March 2019
A superb performance and terrific recording of Monteverdi’s late opera.
