France's Naïve label has made its mark with stirringly played recordings of Baroque music by top groups from all over Europe, presented in packaging with striking contemporary design elements that emphasize the music's energy and relevance. The label has done well enough that it has been able to amplify its own catalog with reissues of ...
Recordings of Vivaldi operas are extremely scarce, and whether or not that will -- or should -- ever change is an open question. But excellent performances like this one make a good case for the music deserving wider appreciation, and offer a different perspective on a composer who, despite having been one of the greatest operatic composers of his ...
This recording, made in 1998, was one of a group that elevated Pergolesi's Stabat mater, written shortly before his extremely untimely death from tuberculosis, to the status of a major masterpiece. Really the group as a whole has had more to do with that elevation than any single recording, for it has shown how much there is to this set of arias ...
This disc is a sampler of Vivaldi discs released by France's Naïve label, and it's highly recommended to listeners who haven't yet given these recordings a try. The group of performers is pan-European, with French singers and Italian instrumentalists especially strongly represented, but a compilation like this brings home how well this label has ...
This set includes one disc of excerpts from Naïve's 2003 recording of Orlando Furioso and one disc that offers samples of other operas and instrumental and sacred music from the Vivaldi Edition, all performed by Jean-Christophe Spinosi leading Ensemble Matheus and Choeur "Les Eléments," with a uniformly outstanding cast of vocal and instrumental ...
Naïve's Vivaldi Edition: La verità in cimento is a highlights disc drawn from Opus 111's 2002 complete recording of Antonio Vivaldi's 1720 opera, made in conjunction with the revival of this work at the Bologna Festival, albeit with a different group of singers. This recording has an excellent frontline cast, including veteran singers such as ...
Opus 111's Vivaldi: La verità in cimento (Truth Put to the Test) is the first complete recording of Antonio Vivaldi's 1720 opera, made in conjunction with a revival of this work at the Bologna Festival, albeit with a different group of singers. This recording has an excellent frontline cast, including veteran singers such as Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ...
The unfamiliar-looking Pergolèse mentioned on the cover of this French budget release is merely Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, represented here by one of his best-known works, his Stabat Mater swan song. The work was finished shortly before Pergolesi's death at age 26 from tuberculosis, and it has traditionally been imbued with a quiet, Bachian ...
This recording of La Sonnambula is notable on a number of fronts. It's the first recording of the opera based on a 2004 critical edition of the score that confirms the leading role was indeed written for a mezzo-soprano, although it has been performed by sopranos for much of its history. (Among the first Aminas were the celebrated mezzos Giuditta ...
Ottorino Respighi is known to audiences almost exclusively for his brilliant tone poems, but he devoted a significant amount of energy to writing for the voice. This collection of his vocal music, performed by soprano Gemma Bertagnolli, includes songs, song cycles, opera excerpts, and his inventive realizations of Baroque songs. The music reveals ...
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