Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Vartolo
Editorial Reviews
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If you're already familiar with L'Orfeo, this unique performance is a must. It includes both versions of Orfeo's centerpiece aria "Possente spirito"--a rarely performed version with no written embellishment--as well as the now-familiar ornate setting; each verse is sung first in simple form, then in its elaborate restatement. Also, the original 1607 production ended with Orfeo's murder by the Bacchantes. Only the libretto of this scene survives--the spoken performance it gets here is terrifying. (Orfeo and Apollo ascend to heaven afterward.) This album does have two serious weaknesses: disastrously listless choruses and dry, unflattering recorded sound. Still, there's lively instrumental and continuo playing and a serviceable cast. This flawed-but- fascinating release is well worth the budget price. (If you're new to L'Orfeo, try John Eliot Gardiner on DG.) --Matthew Westphal
Opera News
This is an alert, expressive, well cast performance, carefully tailored to Monteverdi's stylistic requirements and instrumental instructions.... Alessandro Carmignani, a tenor of pleasant timbre, conveys an Orfeo of dimension and personality, both happy and grief- laden.... Conductor Sergio Vartolo makes one marvel anew at Monteverdi's inventiveness.
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Vartolo
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Vartolo, Music, Claudio Monteverdi, Sergio Vartolo, Gastone Sarti, Carlo Lopere Alessandro Carmignani, Classical, Classical Music, Italian Baroque Opera, Opera, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Opera/Operetta
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Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Vartolo
Claudio Monteverdi , Sergio Vartolo , and Gastone Sarti, Carlo Lopere Alessandro Carmignani
Manufacturer: Naxos
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000060D6
Release Date: 1998-06-02 |
Tracks:
- L'Orfeo: Toccata
- L'Orfeo: Prologue
- L'Orfeo: In questo lieto e fortunato giorno
- L'Orfeo: Lasciate i monti
- L'Orfeo: Rosa del ciel (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Lasciate i monti
- L'Orfeo: Ma se il nostro gioir
- L'Orfeo: Ecco pur ch'a voi (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Mira ch'a se n'alletta
- L'Orfeo: Vi ricorda, o bosch'ombrosi (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ahi caso acerbo (Messaggiera)
- L'Orfeo: Ahi caso acerbo
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
Tracks:
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: Possente spirto (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ritornello
- L'Orfeo: Non viv' io, no (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ritornello
- L'Orfeo: A lei volt' ho il cammin (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ritornello
- L'Orfeo: Orfeo son io (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Sol tuo, nobile Dio (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ben mi lusingo alquanto (Caronte)
- L'Orfeo: Ahi, sventurato amante (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: Ei dorme, e la mia cetra (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: Nulla impresa per uom si tenta invano
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: Signor, quell'infelice (Proserpina)
- L'Orfeo: Benche severo ed immutabil fato (Plutone)
- L'Orfeo: O degli abitator de l'ombre eterne
- L'Orfeo: Trarra da queste orribili caverne
- L'Orfeo: Quali grazie ti rendo (Proserpina)
- L'Orfeo: Tue soavi parole (Plutone)
- L'Orfeo: Pietade, oggi, e amore
- L'Orfeo: Ecco il gentil cantore
- L'Orfeo: Ritornello - Qual onor di te fia degno (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ma che odo? Ohime lasso (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: O dolcissimi lumi (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: ... Ma quale eclissi, ohime, v'oscura? (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Rott' hai la legge
- L'Orfeo: Ahi, vista troppo dolce e troppo amara (Euridice)
- L'Orfeo: Torna a l'ombre di morte
- L'Orfeo: Dove ten vai, mia vita? (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: E' la virtute un raggio
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: Ritornello
- L'Orfeo: Questi i campi di Tracia (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Moresca
- L'Orfeo: Ma ecco stuol nemico (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
- L'Orfeo: Perche a lo sdegno ed al dolor in preda (Apollo)
- L'Orfeo: Padre cortese, al maggior uopo arrivi (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Troppo, troppo gioisti (Apollo)
- L'Orfeo: Si non vedro piu mai (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Nel sole e nelle stelle (Apollo)
- L'Orfeo: Ben di cotanto padre sarei non degno figlio (Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Saliam cantando al cielo (Apollo, Orfeo)
- L'Orfeo: Ritornello
- L'Orfeo: Vanne, Orfeo, felice appieno
- L'Orfeo: Moresca
Amazon.com
If you're already familiar with L'Orfeo, this unique performance is a must. It includes both versions of Orfeo's centerpiece aria "Possente spirito"--a rarely performed version with no written embellishment--as well as the now-familiar ornate setting; each verse is sung first in simple form, then in its elaborate restatement. Also, the original 1607 production ended with Orfeo's murder by the Bacchantes. Only the libretto of this scene survives--the spoken performance it gets here is terrifying. (Orfeo and Apollo ascend to heaven afterward.) This album does have two serious weaknesses: disastrously listless choruses and dry, unflattering recorded sound. Still, there's lively instrumental and continuo playing and a serviceable cast. This flawed-but- fascinating release is well worth the budget price. (If you're new to L'Orfeo, try John Eliot Gardiner on DG.) --Matthew Westphal
Product Description
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
L"ORFEO
Favola in musica
Musica, Euridice - Sylva Pozzer
Orfeo - William Matteuzzi
Messaggera, Prosperina - Sara Mingardo
Speranza - Angela Bucci
Caronte - Gianpaolo Dal Dosso
Apollo - Gianpaolo Fagotto
Plutone - Loris Bertolo
Ninfe - Ilaria Zanetti, Angela Bucci, Gabriella Martellacci
Pastori - Michele Andalo, Gianpaolo Fagotto, Loris Bertolo
Spiriti - Gabriella Martellacci, Francesco De Poli, Gianpaolo Fagotto, Loris Bertolo, Gianpaolo Dal Dosso
cornetto, quinta:Jean- Pierre Canibac
cornetto, clarino: Jean Imbert
tromboni: Julien Luccbi, Fredérick Lucchi, Erick Lechartier, Aurélie Serre, Valentin Perez
fiffare, recorders: Luigi Lupo, Rossella Pozzer
percussion instruments: jean- Michel Giannelli
vilino I: Riccardo Manuel Vartolo
violino II: Davide Monti
viole: Gianni Maraldi, Barbara Ostini
violoncello: Marcello Scandelli
violone: Riccardo Rama Coelati
arpa: Loredana Gintoli
chitarone, arciliuto, chitarra, cetera: Pietro Prosser
organo di legno, clavicembalo: Nicola Reniero
Sergio Vartolo conductor from the cembalo and spinett
Track Listings:
- Mozart: Flute Concertos Kv 313 & 314 [Import]
- Music by Brazilian and French Composers
- Noel: Carols For Solo Harp
- Pan Marimba: Mister Marimba
- Parry: Symphony No. 1; Concertstück in G minor
- Passport to the Universe [Soundtrack]
- Prokofiev: Le Pas d'Acier; L'enfant prodigue
- Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, suite; Symphony No. 6
- R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra/Burleske
- R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier (Highlights)
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I Sing Because of You
Mahler: Symphony No5; Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Milkin' The Frog
Greatest Hits of All [Import]
The Victory of Flight [Explicit Lyrics]
Mars/Venus [Explicit Lyrics]
More of the Great Lorez Alexandria [Import]
Mahler: Symphony Nos.1-9 [Box set]
One Step Ahead
Mister O: A Jazz Opera
Point
Jailhouse [CD-single] [Import]
Ministry of Sound: Breaks 03 Mixed by Kid Kenobi [Import]
You Are God Alone CD!
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