The subtitle of this album is "Jewels from Europe around 1600," and the "Jewels" could as well be applied to Emma Kirkby's voice and Jakob Lindberg's lute playing -- delicate but strong, beguiling, throwing off brilliant light. Kirkby's light soprano is ideal for this repertoire -- absolutely pure, but full of character and expressiveness, with a ...
Alpha Productions' L'Astrée, performed by the early music ensemble Faenza under the direction of Marco Horvat, presents a musical counterpoint to the early seventeenth century French novel The Two Faces of Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, published in five parts between 1607 and 1628; its author -- a gentleman soldier -- died in battle before the book ...
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