The group I Fagiolini ("The Green Beans") is British, not Italian, dating back to a student ensemble formed at Oxford University in the 1980s. The booklet notes ask straightforwardly why, with the profusion of spectacular Italian (and, they might have added, French) takes on Monteverdi's music over the last few years, an English contribution is needed; part of the answer refers justifiably to the group's sheer love of Monteverdi's music. It need not have defended this approach, for this disc definitely fills a niche. Many ...
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The group I Fagiolini ("The Green Beans") is British, not Italian, dating back to a student ensemble formed at Oxford University in the 1980s. The booklet notes ask straightforwardly why, with the profusion of spectacular Italian (and, they might have added, French) takes on Monteverdi's music over the last few years, an English contribution is needed; part of the answer refers justifiably to the group's sheer love of Monteverdi's music. It need not have defended this approach, for this disc definitely fills a niche. Many of the new Italian Monteverdi recordings either focus on a large single work or are parts of sets that chronologically cover the composer's music, but Flaming Heart is intended as a single-disc introduction to the composer, reaping the benefits of the insights that historical performance and a close attention to Monteverdi's treatment of texts have brought. The group's execution of this concept is superb. It involves putting the texts front and center in all the works on the...
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