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Claudio Monteverdi - Biagio Marini - Tarquinio Merula - Marco Uccellini - Barbara Strozzi - Francesco Cavalli - Richardo Rognono

Altri canti d'amor

L'Estro d'Orfeo

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917276022
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Catalog number: CC 72760
Releasedate: 08-09-17
- A surprising debut album by a young Baroque ensemble

- L’Estro d’Orfeo is formed by expert Baroque music performers, capable of perfectly blending musicological insight with pure musicianship

- All musicians have a wide experience in Baroque orchestras and ensembles and they bring great freshness and drive to their performance of Italian great music from early 17th Century

- The disc is very well thought-out in its constant change of timbres and atmosphere and musicians guide the listener to an always renewing and rejoicing musical experience.  

Leonor de Lera:

This debut CD of L’Estro d’Orfeo ensemble takes its title Altri Canti d’Amor from a madrigal found in Claudio Monteverdi’s Eighth Book of Madrigals. The program focuses on the music of the Italian Seicento and more precisely on the schools of northern Italy; mainly the Venetian school. It combines both instrumental and vocal pieces- the latter in instrumental versions- connected to the subject of ‘love’. Using instruments instead of the voice may initially seem perverse for such a title, but to me, it suggests the idea of “other ways of singing about love”;

We thus reaffirm the great value and importance that instruments started gaining in the first half of the 17th century, where they ceased serving merely as accompaniments to the voice and gradually became the main protagonist of the musical scene, attaining a level of virtuosity that had never been explored before.