Indefatigable early music specialist and virtuoso Monica Huggett serves as both guest conductor and concertmaster of the Canadian ensemble Arion in this recording of Baroque vocal music in honor of Mary. Huggett's exquisite sense of phrasing and musical drama brings these late Baroque Italian works, three of which are fairly obscure, to throbbing life. Vivaldi's Stabat Mater for alto, strings, and continuo is one of his most popular vocal works, and rightly so; it's graceful, inventive, and melodious. Male alto Matthew ...
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Indefatigable early music specialist and virtuoso Monica Huggett serves as both guest conductor and concertmaster of the Canadian ensemble Arion in this recording of Baroque vocal music in honor of Mary. Huggett's exquisite sense of phrasing and musical drama brings these late Baroque Italian works, three of which are fairly obscure, to throbbing life. Vivaldi's Stabat Mater for alto, strings, and continuo is one of his most popular vocal works, and rightly so; it's graceful, inventive, and melodious. Male alto Matthew White doesn't have the bright, shiny voice that characterizes many countertenors, but his more velvety tone is well suited to this somber subject and Vivaldi's treatment of it. His ornamentation is all the more effective for being applied with discretion and restraint. He's equally effective in Scarlatti's Salva Regina, in which he's joined by soprano Agnès Mellon. Their voices are beautifully matched and their intonation is pure and piercing. Mellon is the soloist in two cantatas, one...
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