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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2009)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2009)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 7.57 Gb (DVD9) | 116 min
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano

Monteverdi's seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), who has died from a snake bite. In a new production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson, the opera receives a powerful and inspiring performance from a fine cast, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the much-admired Italian early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2018)

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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2018)

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 914 Mb | Total time: 74:46+71:28+38:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Soli Deo Gloria | # SDG730 | Recorded: 2017

Monteverdi's great opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composers most poignant, heart-breaking music. After two brutal decades of war, the weary Ulysses is washed up on the rocky shore of his home island of Ithaca. There, he discovers the hordes of depraved admirers who have beseiged his faithful wife Penelope in his 20-year absence and launches into battle to win back her love. Monteverdi's opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composers most poignant, heartbreaking music. Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads an exemplary cast of world-class singers alongside the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in this live recording from The National Forum of Music in Wrocaw, Poland part of their critically acclaimed Monteverdi 450 tour in 2017.

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Antonio Vivaldi & Francesco Corselli: Farnace (2002)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Antonio Vivaldi & Francesco Corselli: Farnace (2002)

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Antonio Vivaldi & Francesco Corselli: Farnace (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,98 Gb | Total time: 70:04+66:00+39:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: AliaVox | # AV 9822 A/C | Recorded: 2001

Farnace was apparently one of Vivaldi's favorite operas, because he mounted numerous productions in various cities, and wrote six versions of the score, more than of any of his other operas. The conventions of operatic vocal characterizations that came to be standard – higher voices in the sympathetic roles, and lower voices in villainous roles – had not yet been established, and Farnace features a baritone and contralto in the heroic roles, with a soprano as the villain. Soprano Adriana Fernández shines as the wicked Berenice, who is redeemed at the very last minute. She has a full, creamy voice that she deploys appealing agility and warmth.

Peter Van Heyghen, Les Muffatti - Giovanni Bononcini: San Nicola di Bari (2008)

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Peter Van Heyghen, Les Muffatti - Giovanni Bononcini: San Nicola di Bari (2008)

Peter Van Heyghen, Les Muffatti - Giovanni Bononcini: San Nicola di Bari (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 425 Mb | Total time: 81:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ramée | # RAM 0806 | Recorded: 2007

Within the vast repertoire of the Baroque oratorio, San Nicola di Bari is unique in two ways. It is the only composition to treat a scene from Saint Nicholas' life, and the only one that emerged from the long and successful collaboration between the librettist Silvio Stampiglia and the composer Giovanni Bononcini. Ramée hopes that this recording of Bononcini's most successful oratorio will awaken some curiosity about the many other masterpieces of a composer who has, unfortunately and undeservedly, dwelled too long in the shadows.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 693 Mb | Total time: 62:09+67:01+41:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30492 | Recorded: 2009

Armida is the tenth opera in the Vivaldi Edition; it's the second one to be recorded by Rinaldo Alessandrini (their first was L’Olimpiade). It's a great success. Marking the end of Vivaldi's first period in Venice, it lacks music for Act II. Alessandrini has reconstructed it here using carefully chosen existing music of the composer with the assistance of the musicologist Frédéric Delaméa.