Composer: Sigismondo d’India, Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi
Performer: Cappella Mediterranea
Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ambronay
Catalogue: AMY020
Release: 2009
Size: 999 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Monteverdi: Hor che’l ciel e la terra (Book 8), SV 147
02. Strozzi: Diporti di Euterpe, overo cantate e ariette a voce sola Op. 7: Lagrime mie
03. Strozzi: Il primo libro de madrigali, Op. 1: Priego ad amore
04. India: Il terzo libro de madrigali: Dispietata pietate
05. Strozzi: Arie a voce sola, Op. 8: Che si può fare
Strozzi: Il primo libro de madrigali, Op. 1
06. Silentio nocivo
07. Vecchio amante
08. L’usignuolo
09. Monteverdi: Sì ch’io vorrei morire hora ch’io bacio amore, SV 89
10. Strozzi: L’Amante modesto
The virtuoso Venetian diva of the 17th century, Barbara Strozzi, Monteverdi’s heiress, journeys the passions of the soul through a daring mosaic of styles and rhythms. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, who is one of the rising generation of baroque conductors, is leading a major research project on the specific parameters which make up musical performance, paying particular attention to improvisation techniques and the relationship between text and music. His work at the Ambronay Festival has focused on the performance of 17th-century Italian music including rich and little-known repertoire of motets and madrigals by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda and Antonia Bembo.