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A warning to purists: there's little in the packaging of this CD to indicate the interpretive freedom with which the ensemble, l'Arpeggiata led by Christina Pluhar, treats some of the Monteverdi love songs and madrigals on the album. There's a hint in the opening track, the Toccata from Orfeo, in its wonderfully reckless abandon and prominent use of percussion. In Ohimè ch'io cado, the solo madrigal that follows it, the continuo part is transmogrified into a walking bass, the rhythm is swung, blue notes abound, and the Baroque trumpet launches into frankly jazzy riffs between verses. We're clearly no longer in the land of scrupulously authentic period performance practice. It's followed by a traditional, but lusciously sensual performance of "Pur ti miro," from L'incoronazione di Poppea, its accompaniment as direct and heartfelt as that of an Appalachian folk song, sung with a smoldering -- no, scorching -- erotic charge, by soprano Núria Rial and counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky. So, the listener is kept off guard from track to track about what the style of each selection will be. What all the performances have in common, though, is an acute attention to the emotions driving each piece, and to giving those emotions authentic and eloquent expression. Other highlights include especially spirited performances of Lamento della Ninfa, Sì dolce è 'l tormento, and Zefiro torna (in the sly setting from the 1632 Scherzi musicali). Pluhar's varied, inspired realizations of the scores, and the sensitive and lively contributions of the singers (Rial, Jaroussky, along with tenors Cyril Auvity and Jan van Elsacker and bass João Fernandes), and the instrumentalists of l'Arpeggiata, make these performances shimmer with vibrant energy. The sound of the live performance is clean, clear, and present, and the pleasure of the singers and players is practically palpable. Highly recommended.
© TiVo
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Toccata (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Alessandro Striggio, Poet
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Ohimè, ch'io cado (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Claudio Monteverdi)
Nuria Rial, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, MainArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Poet
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Damigella tutta bella (Claudio Monteverdi)
Nuria Rial, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Cyril Auvity, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jan van Elsacker, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Joao Fernandes, Bass Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Nicolas Achten, Baritone Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Lamento della ninfa (Claudio Monteverdi)
Nuria Rial, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Cyril Auvity, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jan van Elsacker, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Nicolas Achten, Baritone Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Si dolce è l'tormento (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, MainArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Sinfonie & Moresca (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Alessandro Striggio, Poet
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Interotte speranze (Madrigals - Book 7) (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Cyril Auvity, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jan van Elsacker, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Chiome d'oro (Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini, Chitarone o Spinetta) (Claudio Monteverdi)
Nuria Rial, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, MainArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Hor ch'el ciel e la terra, Prima Parte (Madrigals - Book 8) (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, MainArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Cyril Auvity, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jan van Elsacker, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Joao Fernandes, Bass Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Nicolas Achten, Baritone Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Lauren Armishaw, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Michaela Riener, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Tempo la cetra (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - Cyril Auvity, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jan van Elsacker, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Ballo (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble, FeaturedArtist - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar, MainArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Con che soavità (Madrigals - Book 7) (Claudio Monteverdi)
Nuria Rial, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Vago augelletto, che cantado vai (a 6 e 7 voci con doi violini e un Contrabasso) (Claudio Monteverdi)
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble - Cyril Auvity, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jan van Elsacker, Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Joao Fernandes, Bass Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Nicolas Achten, Baritone Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Zsuzsanna Toth, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Lauren Armishaw, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Zefiro torna (Claudio Monteverdi)
Nuria Rial, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Philippe Jaroussky, Counter-Tenor Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Christina Pluhar, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist - L'Arpeggiata, Ensemble
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
A warning to purists: there's little in the packaging of this CD to indicate the interpretive freedom with which the ensemble, l'Arpeggiata led by Christina Pluhar, treats some of the Monteverdi love songs and madrigals on the album. There's a hint in the opening track, the Toccata from Orfeo, in its wonderfully reckless abandon and prominent use of percussion. In Ohimè ch'io cado, the solo madrigal that follows it, the continuo part is transmogrified into a walking bass, the rhythm is swung, blue notes abound, and the Baroque trumpet launches into frankly jazzy riffs between verses. We're clearly no longer in the land of scrupulously authentic period performance practice. It's followed by a traditional, but lusciously sensual performance of "Pur ti miro," from L'incoronazione di Poppea, its accompaniment as direct and heartfelt as that of an Appalachian folk song, sung with a smoldering -- no, scorching -- erotic charge, by soprano Núria Rial and counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky. So, the listener is kept off guard from track to track about what the style of each selection will be. What all the performances have in common, though, is an acute attention to the emotions driving each piece, and to giving those emotions authentic and eloquent expression. Other highlights include especially spirited performances of Lamento della Ninfa, Sì dolce è 'l tormento, and Zefiro torna (in the sly setting from the 1632 Scherzi musicali). Pluhar's varied, inspired realizations of the scores, and the sensitive and lively contributions of the singers (Rial, Jaroussky, along with tenors Cyril Auvity and Jan van Elsacker and bass João Fernandes), and the instrumentalists of l'Arpeggiata, make these performances shimmer with vibrant energy. The sound of the live performance is clean, clear, and present, and the pleasure of the singers and players is practically palpable. Highly recommended.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:47
- Main artists: Christina Pluhar
- Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
© 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
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