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Monteverdi: Heaven and Earth

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composer
Monteverdi, Claudio
title

Monteverdi: Heaven and Earth

performers
King, Robert, The King's Consort
catalogue number
VIVAT 104
description
14 glorious tracks present an exquisitely varied programme on the theme of love in all its conflicting emotions, its joys and sweet pains affecting gods and mere mortals. All-star cast including Carolyn Sampson, Sarah Connolly, Rebecca Outram, Charles Daniels and James Gilchrist joined by The King’s Consort’s highly colourful instrumental ensemble. Includes the melancholy ‘Lamento della Ninfa’, the virtuoso ‘Zefiro torna’, exquisite love duets, Orfeo’s famous ‘Possente spirto’, a plangent lament from ‘Poppea’, and Monteverdi’s extraordinary ‘Hor che il ciel’. Recorded in the unsurpassed acoustic of St Jude-on-the-Hill, London. 48 page booklet with authoritative liner note by renowned Monteverdi scholar Prof. John Whenham, plus full texts and translations.
format
CD x 1
label
Vivat
release date
1/7/15
EAN / barcode
680569856340
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