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Monteverdi: Il delirio della passione / Anna Lucia Richter
PENTATONE

Monteverdi: Il delirio della passione / Anna Lucia Richter

$19.99

Details

Composer
MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO
Artist
Richter, Pianca
Format
CD
Label
PENTATONE
Released
Mar 12, 2021
Catalog #
PTC5186845
UPC
827949084560

About

Anna Lucia Richter returns to PENTATONE after her acclaimed Schubert album Heimweh with Il delirio della passione; a recording full of Monteverdi treasures, from heart-wrenching opera scenes (Lamento d’Arianna, ‘Pur ti miro’ from Poppea and the Prologue of L’orfeo) and religious music (Confitebor) to bucolic songs (Si dolce è il tormento). Richter works together with Ensemble Claudiana and Luca Pianca, one of the most eminent Monteverdi interpreters of our age. They offer a fresh perspective on Monteverdi’s music by penetrating deeply into the original sources. Their interpretation of the famous Lamento d’Arianna, salvaged fragment of the lost score of the opera L’Arianna, is exemplary in that regard. Richter’s passionate delivery is inspired by what precedes in the libretto, while Pianca has composed short, “madrigalistic” instrumental interludes between the solo sections, replacing the choral commentaries, of which only the original texts have survived. Altogether, the pieces on Il delirio della passione demonstrate Monteverdi’s exceptional skill to express the most complex emotions, in music of timeless beauty. Anna Lucia Richter belongs to the most exciting young singers of her generation. Il delirio della passione is the second fruit of her exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, after Heimweh (2018), and her last soprano recording, as she will continue her career as a mezzo-soprano. Luca Pianca and Ensemble Claudiana both make their PENTATONE debut.

REVIEW:

Some purists won’t like Luca Pianca’s approach to unwritten ornamentation, which allows the virtuoso members of the Ensemble Claudiana unbridled freedom, and some may cavil at his imaginative and at times almost cavalier attitude to instrumentation. But there is no doubting the freshness of Pianca’s interpretative stance.

Richter’s bright, clean, focused tone, precise diction and keen sense of drama will be familiar from her performances in an impressively wide-ranging portfolio, stretching from Schubert lieder to Mahler’s Wunderhorn songs, and Idomeneo to Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers.

The heart of her achievement on this recording is undoubtedly the lament from Arianna. With its sure-footed command of the patterns and cadences of the Italian language, this is a powerful reading. It is surely the only serious competition in the catalogue to Cathy Berberian’s classic performance with Nikolaus Harnoncourt from the 1970s.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 L'Orfeo: Prologo: Dal mio Permesso amato à voi ne vengo 05:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    L'Orfeo: Prologo: Dal mio Permesso amato à voi ne vengo
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  2. 2 Scherzi musicali cioe arie et madrigali, SV 246-251: No. 7. Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti, "Ciaccona", SV 251 06:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    Scherzi musicali cioe arie et madrigali, SV 246-251: No. 7. Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti, "Ciaccona", SV 251
    Duration
    06:23
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter, Dmitry Sinkovsky
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  3. 3 La mia turca che d'amor, SV 310 02:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    La mia turca che d'amor, SV 310
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  4. 4 1a parte: Lasciatemi morire 02:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    1a parte: Lasciatemi morire
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  5. 5 2a parte: O Teseo, o Teseo mio 03:48
    Track
    5
    Title
    2a parte: O Teseo, o Teseo mio
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  6. 6 3a parte: Dove, dov'è la fede 01:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    3a parte: Dove, dov'è la fede
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  7. 7 4a parte: Ahi, che non pur rispondi - 5a parte: Misera, ancor dò loco 04:19
    Track
    7
    Title
    4a parte: Ahi, che non pur rispondi - 5a parte: Misera, ancor dò loco
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  8. 8 L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308, Act III Scene 8: Pur ti miro 03:54
    Track
    8
    Title
    L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308, Act III Scene 8: Pur ti miro
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter, Dmitry Sinkovsky
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  9. 9 Scherzi musicali, SV 230-245: Et è pur dunque vero, SV 250 07:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    Scherzi musicali, SV 230-245: Et è pur dunque vero, SV 250
    Duration
    07:39
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  10. 10 Confitebor tibi Domine, SV 193 08:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    Confitebor tibi Domine, SV 193
    Duration
    08:33
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  11. 11 Madrigals, Book 8, SV 146-167, "Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi": Lamento della Ninfa, SV 163 06:58
    Track
    11
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 8, SV 146-167, "Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi": Lamento della Ninfa, SV 163
    Duration
    06:58
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter, Ciro Aroni, Teo Aroni, Alessandro Ravasio
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  12. 12 Si dolce è'l tormento, SV 332 04:30
    Track
    12
    Title
    Si dolce è'l tormento, SV 332
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca
  13. 13 Ohimé ch'io cado, ohimé, SV 316 04:03
    Track
    13
    Title
    Ohimé ch'io cado, ohimé, SV 316
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Ensemble
    Claudiana Ensemble
    Conductor
    Luca Pianca