in Early Music Today (Dec, 2011)
This disc juxtaposes laments by Queen Dido and The Virgin Mary, two iconic figures in baroque culture, to illustrate the era’s musical blurring of sacred and profane love. Monteverdi’s ‘Il pianto della Madonna’ makes the point itself, given its origin as a lament from his lost opera Arianna; the disc’s other Marian work, Barbara Strozzi’s rapturous ‘O, Maria’, is sung to rather than by the Virgin, although its ardent tone is shared by many of her secular cantatas. The rest of the CD is given over to the lamenting Dido, with arias from Cavalli’s La Didone, Scarlati’s La Didone delirante, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and a brief, previously unrecorded cantata by …
Stéphanie d’Oustrac : Ferveur et extase.
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Canzona a 3 (from Musiche Sacre)
La Didone
Luigi Rossi (1597-1653)
L’Orfeo
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
La Didone delirante
Concerto in Fa maggiore a flauto, due violini e basso
Concerto n° 7 in Re maggiore a flauto, due violini e basso
Concerto n° 9 in La minore a flauto, due violini e basso
Michelangelo Faggioli (1666-1733)
Cantate a voce sola
Andrea Falconieri (?1585-1586-1656)
Passacalle (from Il primo libro de canzoni)
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1664)
O Maria (from Sacri musicali affetti, Book 1), op. 5
Biagio Marini (1584-1665)
Sinfonia Primo Tuono, for chambre instruments & continuo, op. 22
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Pianto della Madonna, chant sacré pour voix & continuo (from Selva morale e spirituale), SV 288
Biagio Marini (1584-1665)
Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale, op. 22
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Didon et Énée
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (soprano)
Ensemble Amarillis
Stephanie d’Oustrac
20,60€
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