This disc, originally recorded for Astrée in 1997, has been reissued by Naïve, a label mostly devoted to original material. Perhaps the label's motivation is connected with its general effort to revive the music of the seventeenth century in authentic and exciting performances; the Messe pour le Port-Royal of Marc-Antoine Charpentier is a ...
The heritage of Claudio Monteverdi is generally supposed to reside in the tradition of Venetian opera that he founded, and that bloomed into opera as it is known today. This disc explores a considerably less familiar body of music that followed Monteverdi's towering example: his innovations stimulated new thinking in the young genre of the ...
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