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Claudio Monteverdi was active as a composer for almost six decades in the late 16th and early seventeenth centuries, essentially the period of period of transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or ...
The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Vespro della Beata Vergine in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.A specialist Baroque ensemble, the Choir has become famous for its stylistic conviction and extensive repertoire, encompassing music from the Renaissance period to Classical music of the 20th century.
The music is based on the opening toccata from Monteverdi's 1607 opera L'Orfeo, [27] to which the choir sings a falsobordone (a style of recitation) on the same chord. [44] The music has been described as "a call to attention" and "a piece whose brilliance is only matched by the audacity of its conception".
It is Monteverdi's first opera, and one of the earliest in the new genre. In Monteverdi's hands, according to music historian Donald Jay Grout, "the new form [of opera] passed out of the experimental stage, acquiring ... a power and depth of expression that makes his music dramas still living works after more than three hundred years". [1]
The first recording of L'Orfeo was issued in 1939, a freely adapted version of Monteverdi's music edited by Giacomo Benvenuti, [1] given by the orchestra of La Scala Milan conducted by Ferrucio Calusio. [2] [3] [4] In 1949 the Berlin Radio Orchestra under Helmut Koch recorded the complete opera, on long-playing records (LPs).
The first recording of L'incoronazione, with Walter Goehr conducting the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in a live stage performance, was issued in 1954. This LP version, which won a Grand Prix du Disque in 1954, [1] is the only recording of the opera that predates the revival of the piece that began with the 1962 Glyndebourne Festival production.
The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre. Of these, both the music and libretto for three are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Seven other opera projects are known ...
Brassus Choir, Choir of the Grand Theater of Geneva, Ernest Ansermet: Régine Crespin, Rita Gorr, Mario Del Monaco, Tom Krause: Decca, CD: 409 932-2 DH2: Studio recording made 21–22 February at the Grand Théâtre, Geneva 1967: Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Herbert von Karajan: Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti ...