MONTEVERDI
Fire & Ashes
CHANDOS / CHACONNE
2008
Monteverdi’s madrigals are a theatre of the senses: touches, glances, scents, the textures of fabrics, of lips and skin, the shining gold of hair, the deep blue of eyes, the sounds and vistas of nature, the coolness of water, the sun’s warmth, the ecstatic agony of fire and ice.
FEATURING:
Rimanti in pace
Ballo - Tirsi e Clori
Lagrime d'amante (Sestina)
MONTEVERDI
SERIES
VOL. 2
MONTEVERDI
Fire & Ashes
CHANDOS / 2008
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REVIEWS
★★★★
“Fagiolini are at their best in the quietly pastoral pieces. 'Rimanti in pace' is an early masterpiece from Book 3, sung with the tenderest of touches at the melting harmonies, and 'Lagrime d'amante'… is given the most persuasive performance I have heard...”
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
“The singing and playing are wonderfully sensitive and acute. It’s classy, provocative stuff.”
THE GUARDIAN
“Hypnotically dolorous, sung in honeyed tones, retreating into an almost religious, self-pitying ecstasy.”
THE TIMES
“Under Robert Hollingworth's
inspired direction, the five singers squeeze all the emotion possible out of the suspensions, both diatonic and chromatic.”
GRAMOPHONE
