VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hypnos La Tempête; Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Hypnos, God of Sleep . . . Simon-Pierre Bestion's recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, 'the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while... |
ORLANDO DI LASSO
Lasso: Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Orlando di Lasso (b. 1532 in Mons) was one of the most important and prolific composers in the whole of sixteenth-century Europe. Famed as a singer from boyhood, he escaped several kidnapping attempts ordered by princes who coveted his talent for... |
La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Schutz & Schein: Larmes De Résurrection [ Alpha / CD - released 29/Jan/2018 ] In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sculpting the Fabric La Vaghezza [ Ambronay Éditions / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Inspiration, energy and freedom compose the alluring menu of La Vaghezza's very first opus. The five instrumentalists of the young Italian ensemble, recent winners of the EEEMERGING+ scheme, sculpt one by one these magnificent pieces of 17th century... |
MONTEVERDI
Primo libro & nono libro dei madrigali La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "There is some terrific bass solo singing by Matteo Bellotto in 'Alcun non mi consigli' a nice theatrical delivery in 'Bel pastor', and some engaging bravura in 'Zefiro torna'." BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 **** |
MONTEVERDI
Il quarto libro de madrigali, 1603 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "In their Monteverdi Editions, La Venexiana bring a dramatic delivery of the words and a uniquely Italian blend of solo voices to this glorious music, unrivalled on disc." The Sunday Times |
MONTEVERDI
Il quinto libro de madrigali, 1605 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "This recording is one of the best in La Venxiana's Monteverdi series - musically sustained with a convincing sense of ensemble and pace, and crisply recorded." BBC Music Magazine, March 2008 **** |
MONTEVERDI
Il secondo libro de madrigali, 1590 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "their quietly cohesive mood of tenderness in 'Dolcemente dormiva' is ravishing." BBC Music |
MONTEVERDI
Il sesto libro de madrigali, 1614 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "The elite Italian ensemble La Venexiana bring words and music vividly to life." The Sunday Times |
MONTEVERDI
Il settimo libro de madrigali, 1619 'Concerto' La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "still has no serious rival as a recording of the collection as a whole." BBC Music |
MONTEVERDI
Il terzo libro de madrigali, 1592 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "I find La Venexiana's darker hues and dramatic but not histrionic approach to be unbeatable." Gramophone |
MARENZIO
Nono Libro de Madrigali (9th Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] |
GESUALDO
Quarto Libro di Madrigali (Fourth Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "This exquisitely modulated Italian ensemble is wonderfully discriminating, extracting the eloquence of the mercurial lines and unobstrusively seeking architectural sense behind the text... Book 4 is heady stuff, indeed" Winner Early Music, The... |
LUCA MARENZIO
Sesto Libro de Madrigali [Sixth Book of Madrigals] La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Recorded in Roletto (Chiesa della BV al Colletto), Italy, Feb 2001 |
SIGISMONDO D'INDIA
Terzo Libro de Madrigali (3rd Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) |
GESUALDO
5th Book of Madrigals La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] La Venexiana continue their acclaimed series of recordings of the complete Madrigals of Gesualdo da Venosa with this stunning recording of Book 5. |
MONTEVERDI
Scherzi Musicali (1632) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "It is a strange album of "musical jokes" that ends with one of the most heart-rending outpourings of grief ever written for the theatre: the Lamento d'Arianna...Here, in a discreet "orchestration" by Cavina, it is the climax of a programme by the... |
LUZZASCO LUZZASCHI
Luzzaschi: Concerto delle Dame Roberta Mameli, Emanuela Galli, Francesca Cassinari (sopranos) La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana now return to the end of the 16th century, following the 'Poppea' of Monteverdi with the 'Artemisia' by Cavalli. They put their distinctively Italian mark on what was, for a long time, 'secret' music: that composed... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Emanuela Galli, Roberta Mameli, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Xenia Meijer, Ian Honeyman / La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / 3 CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] "Galli's sensuous Poppea and Roberta Mameli's psychotic Nero climax in an almost bluesily languid duet. Not everyone will like it, but for the dramatic verve of Cavina's direction and the vividness of the text this Nerone/Poppea has to be heard." |
HANDEL / BONONCINI / ARIOSTI
A Royal Trio: Arias & Scenes Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Oct/2014 ] "This is an accomplished recital from both singer and orchestra, the latter playing freshly under Bates's direction in a programme which contains some rarely heard music." International Record Review, November 2014 |