Heaven And Earth

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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Heaven And Earth
The Kings Consort Robert King

[ Vivat / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 30 August 2013

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Fourth release on the new VIVAT label features an outstanding collection of vocal music by Claudio Monteverdi.

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.

Tracks:

Toccata (L'Orfeo)
L'Orfeo: 'Dal mio Parnasso amato'
Zefiro torna
Ohimè, dov'è il mio ben (Book 7)
Chiome d'oro (Book 7)
Addio Roma! (from L'incoronazione di Poppea)
A Dio, Florida bella (Book 6)
Interrotte speranze
Lamento d'Arianna 'Lasciatemi morire'
Possente Spirto (from l'Orfeo)
O come sei gentile
Lamento della Ninfa (Book 8)
Cruda Amarilli (Book 5)
Hor che'l ciel e la terra (Book 8)