Since you are interested in MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tenebrae: Music for Holy Week in Naples, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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 |
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 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Water Music & Fireworks (First historical version) Le Concert Spirituel / Herva Niquet [ Glossa SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Under Niquet's high-adrenalin direction the instruments bray, rasp and swagger to gloriously raucous effect. You will not hear a more elementally exciting Fireworks than this." The Daily Telegraph |
BOISMORTIER
Daphnis et Chloe Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Following on from Callirhoé (Destouches), Sémélé (Marais) and Proserpine (Lully), three important tragédies lyriques rescued from oblivion by Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel, Glossa is now restoring to the catalogue and within its collection of... |
DESMAREST
Grands Motets Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "I can hardly wait for the next Desmarest recording, but in the meantime this one will certainly be keeping me happy." Gramophone |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2009) Ana Maria Labin, Chantal Santon-Jeffrey, Melodie Ruvio / Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa DVD / DVD - released 16/Mar/2010 ] G - "Directed by French comedy duo Corinne and Gilles Benizio… conductor Hervé Niquet's knockabout rewrite of King Arthur is as much a tribute to Monty Python as it is to Henry Purcell. Purists beware." (BBC Music) |
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 **** |
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 |