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Claudio Monteverdi - John Eliot Gardiner ‎– L'Orfeo

Label: Archiv Produktion ‎– 419 250-1

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Box Set

Country: Germany

Released: 1987

Genre: Classical

Style: Renaissance, Baroque, Opera

Records are NM with a glossy shine. Clean labels. Accompanying libretto book present. Box is also NM. Looks like it was opened yesterday. Clean all around. No splits. Please review pictures for greater detail.

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Credits:

Composed By – Claudio Monteverdi

Libretto By – Alessandro Striggio, Jr.

Conductor, Liner Notes – John Eliot Gardiner

Soprano Vocals – Carol Hall, Jane Fairfield, Mary Seers, Nicola Jenkin, Rachel Platt, Suzanne Flowers

Alto Vocals – Ashley Stafford, Brian Gordon, Christopher Royall, Julian Clarkson, Patrick Collin

Tenor Vocals – Angus Smith, Clifford Armstrong, David Roy, Howard Milner, Leigh Nixon

Bass Vocals – Charles Pott, Richard Savage, Simon Birchall, Stephen Charlesworth

Notes

Recording: London, Abbey Road Studios, 12/1985

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque periods of music history. Born in Cremona, where he undertook his first musical studies and compositions, Monteverdi developed his career first at the court of Mantua (c. 1590–1613) and then until his death in the Republic of Venice where he was maestro di capella at the basilica of San Marco. His surviving letters give insight into the life of a professional musician in Italy of the period, including problems of income, patronage and politics. Much of Monteverdi's output, including many stage works, has been lost. His surviving music includes nine books of madrigals, large-scale sacred works such as his Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers) of 1610, and three complete operas. His opera L'Orfeo (1607) is the earliest of the genre still widely performed; towards the end of his life he wrote works for the commercial theatre in Venice, including Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea. While he worked extensively in the tradition of earlier Renaissance polyphony, such as in his madrigals, he undertook great developments in form and melody, and began to employ the basso continuo technique, distinctive of the Baroque. No stranger to controversy, he defended his sometimes novel techniques as elements of a seconda pratica, contrasting with the more orthodox earlier style which he termed the prima pratica. Largely forgotten during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, his works enjoyed a rediscovery around the beginning of the twentieth century. He is now established both as a significant influence in European musical history and as a composer whose works are regularly performed and recorded.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other baroque music. He founded the Monteverdi Choir (1964), the English Baroque Soloists (1978) and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1989). Gardiner has recorded over 250 albums with these and other musical ensembles, most of which have been published by Deutsche Grammophon and Philips Classics, and by the Soli Deo Gloria label, which specializes in recordings by Gardiner and by his ensembles. Gardiner is most famous for his interpretations of Baroque music on period instruments with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, but his repertoire and discography are not limited to early music. With the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Gardiner has performed a wide range of Classical and Romantic music, including many works of Berlioz and all of Beethoven's symphonies. A recording of the third symphony of the latter was used in a dramatization by the BBC of Beethoven's writing of that symphony. Gardiner has served as chief conductor of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as guest conductor with such major orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic.