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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 |
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... |
CHARPENTIER
Lecons de Tenebres de la Semaine Sainte de 1692 Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - June 2002 |
CHARPENTIER
Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy Le Concert Spirituel. Directed by Herva Niquet [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Hervé Niquet here rescues an almost unknown mass by Charpentier |
M. A. CHARPENTIER
Lecons de Tenebres Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] recorded Église Notre Dame du Liban, Paris, March 2001 |
CHARPENTIER
Missa Assumpta Est Maria Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "…is musically and interpretatively satisfying. Le Concert Spirituel possess a fluency which complements the graceful eloquence of Charpentier's style." BBC Music Magazine, June 2009 **** |
CHARPENTIER
Te Deum / Dixit Dominus / etc Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "even for those who have a Te Deum or two in their collection, Niquet's reading of it is another…as limpid and lithe a performance of the piece as you are likely to hear. Good recorded sound and balance make this a disc to have." Gramophone Magazine,... |
JAUFRE RUDEL / ADAM DE LA HALLE / ANONYMOUS
L'Amore De Lonh: Medieval Songs of Love and Loss Ensemble Gilles Binchois [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Focusing on the central notion, one very dear to the troubadours themselves, of 'love from Afar', this new programme leads the listener through that maze of amorous emotions linked with the sense of absence, be it as a result of the crusades, owing... |
BACH / MOZART / PETRINI / MEYER / KRUMPHOLTZ
Les Harpes du Ciel Mara Galassi, Gabriella Bosio, harps [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The first solo CD of the harpist Mara Galassi - A magnificent surprise that affords us both a reencounter and moments of secret pleasures. |
J. S. BACH
Flute Concertos Marcello Gatti (traverso) / Ensemble Aurora, Enrico Gatti (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Marcello Gatti, Michele Barchi and the single strings of Ensemble Aurora are all superb, playing with grace and style. This disc is very warmly recommended." Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 |