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L'Incoronazione De Poppea: Monteverdi: Rene Jacobs
In the history of opera, Claudio Monteverdi's work represents the first high point to fundamentally shape the genre: his opera "Orfeo" composed in 1607 is considered by many to the first genuine opera ever written. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Monteverdi was one of the greatest musicians of the time. The first opera houses were founded in Venice around 1640 and Monteverdi became a highly sought-after opera composer. One year before his death he wrote "The Coronation of Poppea,...
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Monteverdi: L'orfeo / Gardiner, Rolfe-johnson, Baird, Et Al
Claudio Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo' is generally considered the first operatic masterpiece. Written in an attempt to emulate what was thought to be the performance style of the ancient Greeks, Monteverdi and his librettist created a nearly perfect union of drama, text and music that composers from Gluck to Wagner would, at various times, attempt to emulate and remake in their own image. The famous story is economically told, albeit with more principals than Gluck would employ for his famous reform opera...
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Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Vartolo
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / London Baroque - Medlam, Chiaroscuro - Caudle
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Artist : Emmanuelle Haïm, Claudio Monteverdi, Sonia Prina, Lorenzo Regazzo, Carolyn Sampson, Mario Luperi, Christopher Maltman, Paul Agnew, Pascal Bertin, Ian Bostridge, Richard Burkhard
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In some respects, Monteverdis Orfeo (1607) is to the history of Italian opera what Dantes Divine Comedy is to the history of Italian literature: a masterpiece that stands at the very beginning of the journey. With Orfeo and the operas that followed it, Monteverdi had the substantial merit of immediately demonstrating the infinite possibilities of this new genre, which would leave an imprint on three centuries of European culture. In the present edition the French conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire is at the head...
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Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Bostridge, Ciofi, Coote, Dessay, Gens, Prina, Sampson, Agnew, Bertin, Luperi, Maltman, Regazzo, Le Concert d'Astree, Haim
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State-of-the-art, next-generation algorithms are used to manually remove clicks and pops. Noise Reduction is applied to the audio to remove surface noise from the vinyl record. The individual tracks are separated in preparation for being placed on the Master CD.
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CHIAROSCURO LONDON BAROQUE- THE LONDON CORNETT AND SACKBUT ENSEMBLE
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6 CD's in two double jewel cases. L'Orfeo (Favola in Musica CD 1 Toccata, Prologo, Atto 1,2,3 (70:04) CD 2 Atto 4,5 (70:56) Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria Prologo, Atto 1,I-1, VII CD 3 Atto 1, VIII-2,XII (64:22) CD 4 Atto 2,XIII-3,X (72:24) L'Incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) Prologo, Atto 1,I-1,III CD 5 Atto 1,IV-2,V (69:23) CD 6 Atto w,VI-3,VIII (62:18)
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