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Swedish ensemble Harmony of Voices performs a variety of early Baroque vocal and instrumental music from Italy. Founded in 2003, the group is conducted by Fredrick Malmberg, who leads it with discipline, energy, and attention to the details of period-performance practice. The quintet of singers has pure, focused voices ideal for this repertoire and they make the most of the expressive possibilities the composers wrote into the music. In the madrigal Zefiro Torna, one of the composer's liveliest and catchiest works, tenors Leif Aruhn-Solén and Johan Linderoth sing with intensity, humor, and pathos as the different sections require, and the ensemble plays the passacaglia with nuance and spirit. In "Amor," the middle section of "Lamento della Ninfa," another passacaglia that brings of some of Monteverdi's subtlest and most memorable text setting, mezzo-soprano Lena-Susanne Norin sings with soulful, limpid tone, accompanied by the two tenors. The Monteverdi works stand out from those by Dario Castelli and Giacomo Carissimi; it's almost unfair to pair some of Monteverdi's most appealing pieces with the workmanlike efforts of the lesser composers, which heard on their own might have made a stronger impression. The performances throughout are so extraordinarily fine, though, that it's easy to recommend the disc without reservation. The sound of Proprius' SACD is impeccable.
© TiVo
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Zefiro torna (Claudio Monteverdi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello - Johan Linderoth, tenor
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Madrigals, Book 7 (Concerto, settimo libro de madrigali, con altri generi de canti), SV 117–145, Chiome d'oro, bel thesoro, SV 143 (Claudio Monteverdi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Lamento della Ninfa (Claudio Monteverdi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Sonata No. 12 for 2 Sopranos and Trombone (Dario Castello)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Recitative (Giacomo Carissimi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Recitative, Apritevi, Inferni - Aria, a chi Dio (Giacomo Carissimi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 1, Sonata No. 11 (Dario Castello)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Vanitas Vanitatum (Giacomo Carissimi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Hinc mortales (Giacomo Carissimi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, harpsichord - Anders Ericson, guitar - Mattias Frostenson, violin - Stefan Lindvall, violin - David Gammelgard, cello
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Symphonia Tempro la Cetra (Claudio Monteverdi)
Harmony of Voices, Choir - Harmony of Voices, Choir - Fredrik Malmberg, Conductor - Rastko Roknic, viola - Karl Nyhlin, archlute
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
Album review
Swedish ensemble Harmony of Voices performs a variety of early Baroque vocal and instrumental music from Italy. Founded in 2003, the group is conducted by Fredrick Malmberg, who leads it with discipline, energy, and attention to the details of period-performance practice. The quintet of singers has pure, focused voices ideal for this repertoire and they make the most of the expressive possibilities the composers wrote into the music. In the madrigal Zefiro Torna, one of the composer's liveliest and catchiest works, tenors Leif Aruhn-Solén and Johan Linderoth sing with intensity, humor, and pathos as the different sections require, and the ensemble plays the passacaglia with nuance and spirit. In "Amor," the middle section of "Lamento della Ninfa," another passacaglia that brings of some of Monteverdi's subtlest and most memorable text setting, mezzo-soprano Lena-Susanne Norin sings with soulful, limpid tone, accompanied by the two tenors. The Monteverdi works stand out from those by Dario Castelli and Giacomo Carissimi; it's almost unfair to pair some of Monteverdi's most appealing pieces with the workmanlike efforts of the lesser composers, which heard on their own might have made a stronger impression. The performances throughout are so extraordinarily fine, though, that it's easy to recommend the disc without reservation. The sound of Proprius' SACD is impeccable.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:42
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Harmony of Voices
- Composer: Giacomo Carissimi
- Label: Proprius SACD
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2007 Proprius SACD (P) 2007 Proprius SACD
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