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Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali
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Choral » Madrigals & Partsongs
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Monteverdi: Combattimento
Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi & Topi Lehtipuu
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
The atmosphere is electric. Villazón is pouring out Monteverdi’s beautiful lines of remorseful agony with spell-binding force. It’s his first foray into early music, but he tosses off the tricky... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Kožená teams up with crack period band La Cetra, whose virtuoso solo contributions are a delight, yet the voice isn't quite what it was - more diffuse, painting with broader tonal brushstrokes.... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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La bella piu bella
Songs from early baroque Italy
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Craig Marchitelli (archlute & theorbo)
This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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[Mameli] provides an object lesson in how vocal precision need not inhibit passionate commitment. Her clarity and response to the texts is exceptional: the first phrase of Caccini’s Dolcissimo... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Eternità d'amore
Zachary Wilder and Josep Maria Martí Duran, Zachary Wilder (soloist), Josep Maria Martí Duran (soloist)
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Trent’anni a Roma
Thirty Years…
Rinaldo Alessandrini (solo harpsichord), Sandrine Piau (soprano) & Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano
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Ensemble Anthonella provide delightfully spicy renditions of their cross-section of Ciaconas…The two recorder players have a delightfully free approach to their lines, using various flutterings... —
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New. Monteverdi: Lagrime d'amante, SV 111, Scherzi musicali & Other Vocal Works
Claire Masella, George Little, René Lacourse, Marcelle Dumontet, Claude Letourneau, Petit Ensemble Vocal, Montreal
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