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[The Venice Collection] - An Excess of Pleasure & The Winged Lion / Palladian Ensemble

2 CD / Linn Records / 2009-06-30

Works: Marco Uccellini: Sonate, arie et correnti, Op 3; Sonate, arie et correnti, Op. 3; Sonate, correnti et arie, Op 4; Nicola Matteis: Ayres for the Violin; Ayres for the Violin, Book 4; Matthew Locke: Br...
Performers: Carter, William; Levine, Joanna; Podger, Rachel; Thorby, Pamela
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Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble

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Sparkling playing with the sense of uninhibited joy which only technical mastery and unbridled imagination can generate.
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Baroque Voices - From Monteverdi to Handel - Arie & Cantate / Mingardo, Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-05-27

Works: Tarquinio Merula: Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, Op. 13; Giovanni Salvatore: All'hor che Tirsi udia, cantata for voice & continuo; Giacomo Carissimi: Deh, memoria; Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigal...
Performers: Bacelli, Monica; Ferreira, Mauro Lopes; Giovanni, Ugo di; Peverini, Luca; Vicari, Francesca
Conductors: Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano

Cavalli: Xerse / Jacobs, Nelson, Gall, Concerto Vocale

4 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2000-11-14

Works: Francesco Cavalli: Xerse, opera
Performers: Bach, Gottfried; Dieltiens, Roel; Elwes, John; Fauche, Francois; Feldman, Jill [Soprano Vocals]; Gall, Jeffrey; Jacobs, Rene; Junghanel, Konrad; Mellon, Agnes [Soprano Vocal]; Mey, Guy de; Nelson, Ju...
Conductors: Jacobs, René
Ensemble: Concerto Vocale

"Xerse" was written using the libretto that Handel also used, 84 years later. The text adopted here is that of its premiere in Venice in...continue...