This two-disc set introduces the listener to the passionate, agitated, even troubled world of Monteverdi's (1567-1643) extraordinary eighth book of madrigals, consisting of Canti guerrieri (Warrior songs) and Canti amorosi (Love Songs), and performed with exquisite taste, imagination, and passion by the vocal soloists and instrumentalists of ...
If you're going to write in it or name yourself after it, you've got to have guts to call what you do the Stylus Phantasticus. Dietrich Buxtehude wrote it in extravagantly brilliant music, music virtuosically composed with incredibly complicated but immediately self-evident forms setting in wildly expressive but intensely controlled emotions. The ...
This handsome sewn-binding package contains a reissued 1995 performance of Monteverdi's Vespro della beata vergine (Vespers) of 1610, together with a hefty new booklet delivering nice reproductions of artwork of the period along with a great deal of information about this genuinely magnificent work and its context. The Vespers and the opera Orfeo ...
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