Episode 3
Music had always been secondary to drama in the court theatre at Mantua and across Europe, but Monteverdi was working towards a revolutionary new form called opera, that would set the template for the next four hundred years. Presented by Donald Macleod.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Fugge 'l verno de' dolori
Performer: María Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Stephan MacLeod (bass-baritone), Concerto Soave, directed by Jean-Marc Aymes
- Harmonia Mundi HMC901855.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Lidia spina del mio core
Performer: Monteverdi: Quando l'Alba in Oriente Performer: María Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Stephan MacLeod (bass-baritone), Concerto Soave, dir Jean-Marc Aymes
- Harmonia Mundi HMC901855.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Ecco, Silvio, colei ch'in odio hai tanto
Performer: Concerto Italiano, directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Opus OPS30166.
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Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo (Act II)
Performer: Ian Bostridge (Orfeo, tenor), Alice Coote (Messenger, Mezzo-soprano), Pascal Bertin (shepherd, counter-tenor), Paul Agnew (shepherd, tenor), Christopher Maltman (shepherd, baritone), Richard Burkhard (shepherd, baritone), European Voices, Les Sacqueboutiers, Le Concert d'Astrée, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm
- Virgin Classics 5456422,.
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- Wed 23 Mar 201112:00BBC Radio 3
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