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Elam Rotem, Profeti della Quinta - Amor, Fortuna et Morte (2019)

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Elam Rotem, Profeti della Quinta - Amor, Fortuna et Morte (2019)

Elam Rotem, Profeti della Quinta - Amor, Fortuna et Morte (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 275 Mb | Total time: 64:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pan Classics | # PC 1039 | Recorded: 2018

The vocal ensemble Profeti della Quinta was founded in the Galilee region of Israel by the bass singer and harpsichordist Elam Rotem and is based in Basel, Switzerland, where its members undertook further studies of early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The ensemble focuses on the vocal repertoire of the 16th and early 17th Centuries. From its core of five male singers, the ensemble collaborates regularly with instrumentalists and additional singers.

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2023)

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Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2023)

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 511 Mb | Total time: 01:42:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902710.11 | Recorded: 2022

After ‘Stravaganza d’amore’, their superb album of late sixteenth-century Florentine music, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion return to Italy, this time to Mantua. Here they offer us their reading of one of the peaks of sacred music from this period: Monteverdi’s Vespers. Revealing like no other interpreters the poignant interiority of these pieces, they bring out to the full their inherent sense of theatre. An overwhelming experience.

Magdalena Kozena, La Cetra, Andrea Marcon - Monteverdi (2016)

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Magdalena Kozena, La Cetra, Andrea Marcon - Monteverdi (2016)

Magdalena Kožená - Claudio Monteverdi (2016)
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel; Andrea Marcon, harpsichord and conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 336 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 4595 AH | Time: 01:17:06

Mezzo Magdalena Kožená returns with another early music adventure on Archiv Production after her highly acclaimed Vivaldi album: Kožená explores the early Italian Baroque music of Claudio Monteverdi with rewarding results. Inspired by the improvisational nature of much of this music, Kožená reveals yet another aspect of her musical personality with selections from L’incoronazione di Poppea, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and more.

Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley - Monteverdi & India: Olympia's Lament (1986)

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Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley - Monteverdi & India: Olympia's Lament (1986)

Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley - Monteverdi & India: Olympia's Lament (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 175 Mb | Total time: 46:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66106 | Recorded: 1983

…The crystal-clear tone, thoughtful intonation and bright sparkle of this beautiful voice [Emma Kirkby] is unmistakable. The music is not so well known as it ought to be and Anthony Rooley, who accompanies here so tellingly, is adept at promoting lesser-known works.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Musica Sacra (1996)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Musica Sacra (1996)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Musica Sacra (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 75:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-150 | Recorded: 1996

A glorious collection of Monteverdi's church music performed expertly by the Concerto Italiano under Rinaldo Alessandrini. Starting of with a number of larger scale psalm settings concluded by a magnificat the focus subsequently moves to smaller scale settings written for avariety of occasions. The diction is very good and the music making always sensitive to the moods and the meaning of the words.

Marco Beasley, Kiya Tabassian, Constantinople - La Porta d'Oriente (2020)

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Marco Beasley, Kiya Tabassian, Constantinople - La Porta d'Oriente (2020)

Marco Beasley, Kiya Tabassian, Constantinople - La Porta d'Oriente (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 447 Mb | Total time: 77:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD924501 | Recorded: 2019

A 17th Century manuscript that was compiled but Albert Bobowski, a Polish musician and orientalist, contains songs of the Italian Renaissance and the Ottoman court. Bobowski, alias Ali Ufki, was born around 1610 in Poland and worked in Constantinople at the Ottoman court where he was involved with many diplomats,clerics and travellers as translator, language teacher, mediator and adviser. Thanks to his diverse skills and profound knowledge of the Islamic-Ottoman and Christian-European cultures, he became a valued mediator between the two worlds during his lifetime. In this collection of European and Ottoman vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, court and popular music, Ali Ufki switches between languages and music genres with a fantastic ease and naturalness.

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Claudio Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea (2019)

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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Claudio Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea (2019)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Claudio Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 950 Mb | Total time: 3h 06'35'' | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HAF890262224 | Recorded: 2018

“Some of the most wonderful music in the world” is how William Christie describes Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, noting in particular the opera’s overriding humanism and interest in questions of morality and ambition. Performed by an exceptional cast of soloists (including Sonya Yoncheva, Kate Lindsey, Stéphanie d’Oustrac…) working with a remarkable stage director, Jan Lauwers, each of the work’s characters is vividly brought to life, accompanied by a reduced ensemble featuring a large continuo section essential for capturing the unique sound world of the composer. This acclaimed production was recorded in 2018 at the prestigious Salzburg Festival.

Early Choral Music at Trinity College, Cambridge [6CD] (2016)

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Early Choral Music at Trinity College, Cambridge [6CD] (2016)

Early Choral Music at Trinity College, Cambridge [6CD] (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,65 Gb | Total time: 07:09:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88985323472 | Recorded: 1990-1995

Cambridges renowned Trinity College Choir, conducted by Richard Marlow, is heard in a 6-CD compilation of acclaimed Renaissance and early Baroque recordings. In the compositions by Lassus, Victoria, Praetorius, Sweelinck, Monteverdi and Schutz heard here, Gramophone has praised the choirs superb discipline fresh and natural voices as well as Marlows astute and imaginative direction His sensitivity and responsiveness are tireless.

Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)

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Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)

Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 60:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 478 1466 | Recorded: 2008

Rare recordings of two settings of Mary’s passionate Easter lament. For their second L’Oiseau Lyre disc, Il Giardino Armonico, again under their director Giovanni Antonini, are joined by celebrated mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, for a project exploring the Passion of Christ as seen through the eyes of the Virgin Mary. The two central works are both vocal settings of the Virgin’s lament.

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2017)

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Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2017)

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 87:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Phi | # LPH 029 | Recorded: 2017

Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent present a highly accomplished version of one of the masterpieces of seventeenth-century sacred music. Composed shortly after L’Orfeo and dedicated to Pope Paul V, Monteverdi’s Vespers constantly surprise us with their audacity and their great emotional power. Stile antico and stile moderno combine here to wonderful effect, with Renaissance-style polyphony, accompanied monody and concertato style coexisting harmoniously. The importance accorded to the text (a key feature in Monteverdi), the virtuosity of the vocal writing and the independence of the part-writing are among the characteristics of this astonishing work. Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent prove themselves to be Monteverdi interpreters of the first rank. Their lively, refreshing reading, enhanced by the presence of eight internationally renowned soloists, will ensure the success of this release.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discothèque Idéale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Légende en 25 CDs (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6.86 Gb | Total time: 25 h 25 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony Music | # 88883719232

This is an excellent and varied selection of composers from the very well known like Palestrina, Monteverdi, Bach and Vivaldi, through the less famous but familiar like Frescobaldi, Sainte-Colombe and Zelenka, to the downright obscure. It is all delightful: the musicians are uniformly excellent, and include such great names as Gustav Leonhardt, Cantus Colln, Christopher Hogwood and so on. They give fine performances both of the familiar works and of the less familiar ones. Obviously there will be discs you like more than others and you may already have favourite versions of some works, but these discs are never less than very good and are often outstanding.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2009)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2009)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 7.57 Gb (DVD9) | 116 min
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano

Monteverdi's seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), who has died from a snake bite. In a new production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson, the opera receives a powerful and inspiring performance from a fine cast, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the much-admired Italian early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)

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Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 60:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambronay Éditions | # AMY020 | Recorded: 2008

The virtuoso Venetian diva of the 17th century, Barbara Strozzi, Monteverdi's heiress, journeys the passions of the soul through a daring mosaic of styles and rhythms. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, who is one of the rising generation of baroque conductors, is leading a major research project on the specific parameters which make up musical performance, paying particular attention to improvisation techniques and the relationship between text and music. His work at the Ambronay Festival has focused on the performance of 17th-century Italian music including rich and little-known repertoire of motets and madrigals by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda and Antonia Bembo.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo Libro de' Madrigali (2022)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo Libro de' Madrigali (2022)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo Libro de' Madrigali (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 624 Mb | Total time: 132:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP7365 | Recorded: 2020

Claudio Monteverdi's Seventh Book of Madrigals have been recorded well by several early music groups, but one expects superior readings from harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini and his vocal-instrumental ensemble Concerto Italiano, and indeed, one gets them here. Alessandrini's versions are on the spare side, with seven voices and an instrumental ensemble of 13 that includes three continuo instruments plus percussion, with Alessandrini's harpsichord prominent in the mix, but he has all the equipment he needs to deliver a really distinctive "concerto," as the title of the Seventh Book boldly proclaims itself. With this book, Monteverdi moved decisively away from the old polyphonic madrigal ideal and toward the text-based settings that would be the norm for vocal music over the next four centuries and counting.

Federico Bardazzi, Ensemble San Felice - Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2023)

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Federico Bardazzi, Ensemble San Felice - Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2023)

Federico Bardazzi, Ensemble San Felice - Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 949 Mb | Total time: 02:41:42 | Covers included
Classical | Label: Bongiovanni | # GB2604/6-2 | Recorded: 2022

The work was produced with the Virtual Stage system, the innovative method that features new blended methods, between real and virtual, between philology and technology, applied to the operatic setting for both audio and scene through multitrack recording. The voice cast consists of young talents headed by virtuoso tenor Leonardo De Lisi as Ulysses. The ensemble instrumental sees musicians prominent of the group Dutch Heliosphere, together with the flautist Marco Di Manno co-founder of the Ensemble, Dimitri Betti assistant to the continuo players musician and harpsichordist and Giacomo Benedetti on the organ, with the participation of the Juvenes Cantores choir of the Cathedral of Sarzana by Alessandra Montali.