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MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo Gardiner

Posted By: Berthold_80
MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo Gardiner

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Gardiner
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Deutsche Grammophon | ARCHIV Produktion | 11 Sep. 1987 | 2 CDs

Edison Award, 1988

This 1987 recording has a very strong cast (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Anne Sofie von Otter, etc), an engaged chorus and exceptionally spirited instrumentalists.
Anthony Pryer (BBC Music Magazine)

This is an impressively musical Orfeo. With John Eliot Gardiner in charge of such a strong cast of singers and players, it could hardly have been otherwise.
Gramophone

Amazon.com essential recording

History's first great opera–the story of Orpheus descending to Hades to retrieve his bride Eurydice from the dead, only to lose her again–gets a fine performance (the best overall version currently available) from John Eliot Gardiner and his musicians. Anthony Rolfe Johnson performs the title role with all the beautiful sound you'd expect from an Orfeo; he negotiates virtuoso passages flawlessly and sings passionately without overwhelming Monteverdi's music with too much voice. Julianne Baird as Eurydice and Anne Sofie Von Otter in a gripping appearance as the Messenger are the standouts in a cast without a weak link. Everyone involved, including the chorus and orchestra, performs with such energy, beauty, and precision that even long stretches of recitative never pall.
Matthew Westphal


Claudio Monteverdi

L'ORFEO
Favola in musica


Orfeo … Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Euridice … Julianne Baird
La Musica … Lynne Dawson
Messaggiera … Anne Sofie von Otter
Ninfa … Nancy Argenta
Speranza … Mary Nichols
Caronte … John Tomlinson
Prosperina … Diana Montague
Plutone … Willard White
Pastore I … Mark Tucker
Pastore II … Nigel Robson
Pastore III … Michael Chance
Pastore IV … Simon Birchall
Spirito I … Howard Milner
Spirito II … Nicolas Robertson
Spirito III … John Tomlinson
Eco … Mark Tucker
Apollo … Nigel Robson
Coro di ninfe e pastori / Coro di spiriti

The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
His Majesties Sagbutts & Cornetts

JOHN ELIOT GARDINER


Recording: London, Abbey Road Studios, 12/1985.