The legend of Orfeo was the subject of at least five operas, including Monteverdi's masterpiece La Favola d'Orfeo, before the Roman composer Stefano Landi wrote his version in 1619. Unlike the earlier operas, Landi's focuses exclusively of the events following Orfeo's failed attempt to rescue Eurydice, and even though he is torn apart by the ...
Stefano Landi, who was Monteverdi's junior by about 20 years, was active in Rome, whereas Monteverdi was based in Venice. Landi spent two formative years in Venice, though, and absorbed the progressive musical ideas of Monteverdi and other seconda prattica composers. That contact would explain why Il Sant'Alessio (1632) sounds like a Monteverdi ...
The logistical efforts involved in the making of this album must have been as strenuous as those on the musical side, for this is one of the first real all-star releases to have emerged from the historical-instrument side of the recording catalog. Lovers of vocal music per se may be interested in the dsic purely because it offers a rare ...
Stefano Landi, who was Monteverdi's junior by about 20 years, was active in Rome, whereas Monteverdi was based in Venice. Landi spent two formative years in Venice, though, and absorbed the progressive musical ideas of Monteverdi and other seconda prattica composers. That contact would explain why Il Sant'Alessio (1632) sounds like a Monteverdi ...
Gregorio Allegri and his famous Miserere (which Mozart transcribed on one hearing) appear to be the central focus of this 2005 reissue from Meridian, but the program's roster -- Giovanni da Palestrina, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Annibale Orgas, Paolo Quagliati, Agostino Agazzari, Abundio Antonelli, Stefano Landi, and Giovanni Francesco Anerio -- reads ...
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