In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Das Alte Werk, a pioneer in preserving recordings of the authentic performance practice movement, reissued some of its most important releases in 2008. This 1993 collection of Monteverdi's Madrigali concertati features very fine performances by the ensemble Tragicomedia, led by Stephen Stubbs. The group, which consists of tenors John Potter and Douglas Nasrawi, bass Harry van der Kamp, harpist and keyboardist Andrew Lawrence-King, gambist and lironist Erin Headley, with Stubbs also ...
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In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Das Alte Werk, a pioneer in preserving recordings of the authentic performance practice movement, reissued some of its most important releases in 2008. This 1993 collection of Monteverdi's Madrigali concertati features very fine performances by the ensemble Tragicomedia, led by Stephen Stubbs. The group, which consists of tenors John Potter and Douglas Nasrawi, bass Harry van der Kamp, harpist and keyboardist Andrew Lawrence-King, gambist and lironist Erin Headley, with Stubbs also playing chitarrone and guitar, performs with high energy and obvious delight in the expressive opportunities the composer so prodigally offers his performers. Most of the pieces are from his seventh and eighth books of madrigals, and quite a few have a dramatic element, most notably "Lamento della Ninfa," in which the group is joined by soprano Viveca Axell in an unusually graceful and serene performance. One of the composer's delightful settings of "Zefiro torna" (which must have been...
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