La révolution du Baroque italien (2006)
performed by
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, Andreas Lebeda (vocals), Andrew Manze (violin), Antonio Abete (bass), Bernarda Fink (vocals), Chiara Banchini (violin), Christina Hogman (vocals), Christophe Laporte (counter tenor), Claire Brua (soprano), Concerto Soave
composed by
Arcangelo Corelli, Biagio Marini, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, George Frederick Handel, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Orazio Vecchi, Riccardo Broschi, Sigismondo d'India
With this disc, Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series moves onto what sports fans might call its home field: the Harmonia Mundi catalog is heavily stocked with discs by artists who have brought the music of the seventeenth century to life, and several of them, notably Les Arts Florissants and its Buffalo-to-Paris-transplanted leader William Christie, are represented here. What the packaging rightly calls the "revolution" accomplished during the Italian Baroque was first and foremost a matter of vocal music. ...
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With this disc, Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series moves onto what sports fans might call its home field: the Harmonia Mundi catalog is heavily stocked with discs by artists who have brought the music of the seventeenth century to life, and several of them, notably Les Arts Florissants and its Buffalo-to-Paris-transplanted leader William Christie, are represented here. What the packaging rightly calls the "revolution" accomplished during the Italian Baroque was first and foremost a matter of vocal music. The disc traces both the emergence of the principle of harmony in the intimate, aristocratic madrigal genre, at the hands of Monteverdi and his fellow travelers, and the growth of more public opera and its characteristic forms, offering performances that will be evocative to newcomers even in spite of the lamentable lack of text translations (buyers could at the very least have been directed to translations on a website). The excerpt from Cavalli's Seneca i suoi famigliari given here...
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- Piange Madonna
- T'amo mia vita!, madrigal for 5 voices & continuo (from Book 5), SV 104
- O come sei gentile, caro augellino, madrigal for 2 sopranos (from Book 7), SV 120
- Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo, madrigal for 8 voices and 2 violins (from Book 8), SV 152
- Zefiro Torna, madrigal for 2 tenors and continuo (from Book 9 & Scherzi musicali), SV 251
- L'amfiparnasso, madrigal comedy: Prologo. Lelio. Benchč siat'usi, o spettatori illustri
- La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Possente spirto
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2. Scene 3. Amici, č giunta l'ora
- La Calisto, opera: Act 1. Piante ombroso
- Confitebor tibi, Domine III (Terzo alla francese), motet for 5 voices/or 1 voice & 4 strings (from Salve morale e spirituale), SV 267
- Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, for soprano voice, bass voice, chorus & orchestra (attributed): Introduzione
- Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, for soprano voice, bass voice, chorus & orchestra (attributed): Baraba a noi si dia
- Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, for soprano voice, bass voice, chorus & orchestra (attributed): E di Gesů che fia
- Capricci (12) fatti sopra diversi soggetti et arie in partitura, Vol.1, for keyboard: Cappricio sopra la bassa fiammenga
- Sonata in Ecco, for chamber instruments & continuo
- Concerto Grosso in G minor ("Christmas Concerto"), Op. 6/8: Vivace - Grave
- Concerto Grosso in G minor ("Christmas Concerto"), Op. 6/8: Allegro
- Concerto Grosso in G minor ("Christmas Concerto"), Op. 6/8: III. Presto
- Symphony for 2 violins, viola & bass in D major, J-C 14: I. Allegro
- Flavio, Rč di Longobardi, opera, HWV 16: Act 2. Scene 1. Al tuo cenno reale ubbidiente. Scene 2. Scene 3. Aria. Fato tiranno e crudo
- Idaspe, opera: Aria. Qual guerriero in campo armato
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