Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria / Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists

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Label: SDG
Release Date: November 9, 2018

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO
ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE

Monteverdi Choir
PERFORMER

English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

November 09, 2018
UPC

843183073023
CATALOG NUMBER

SDG730
LABEL

SDG
NUMBER OF DISCS

3
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

Prologue: Mortal cosa son io (Humana Fragilità, Tempo, Fortuna, Amore)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Carlo Vistoli, Gianluca Buratto, Hana Blažíková, Silvia Frigato

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 1: Di misera Regina (Penelope, Ericlea)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Lucile Richardot, Francesca Biliotti

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 2: Duri, e penosi (Melanto, Eurimaco)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Anna Dennis, Zachary Wilder

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 4: Superbo è l'huom (Nettuno, Giove)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Gianluca Buratto, John Taylor Ward

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 6: In questo basso mondo (Nettuno)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Gianluca Buratto

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 7: Dormo ancora, o son desto? (Ulisse)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Furio Zanasi

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 8: Cara elieta gioventù (Minerva, Ulisse, Chorus)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Hana Blažíková, Furio Zanasi

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 9: Tu d’Aretusa al fonte intanto vanne (Minerva, Ulisse)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Hana Blažíková, Furio Zanasi

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 10: Donate un giorno, o dèi (Penelope, Melanto)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Lucile Richardot, Anna Dennis

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 11: Come mal si salva un regio ammanto (Eumete)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francisco Fernández-Rueda

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 12: Pastor d’armenti può (Iro, Eumete)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Robert Burt, Francisco Fernández-Rueda

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act I Scene 13: Ulisse generoso (Eumete, Ulisse)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Furio Zanasi

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II: Sinfonia

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 1: Lieto cammino (Telemaco, Minerva)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Krystian Adam, Hana Blažíková

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 2: O gran figlio d'Ulisse (Eumete, Ulisse, Telemaco)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Furio Zanasi, Krystian Adam

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 3: Che veggio, oimé, che miro? (Telemaco, Ulisse)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Krystian Adam, Furio Zanasi

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 4: Eurimaco, la donna (Melanto, Eurimaco)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Anna Dennis, Zachary Wilder

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 5: Sono l'altre Regine (Antinoo, Anfinomo, Pisandro, Penelope)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Gianluca Buratto, Gareth Treseder, Michał Czerniawski, Lucile Richardot

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 6: All'allegrezze dunque (Pisandro, Anfinomo, Antinoo, Chorus)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Michał Czerniawski, Gareth Treseder, Gianluca Buratto

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 7: Apportator d'alte novelle vengo (Eumete, Penelope)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Lucile Richardot

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 8: Compagni, udiste? (Antinoo, Anfinomo, Pisandro, Eurimaco)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Gianluca Buratto, Gareth Treseder, Michał Czerniawski, Zachary Wilder

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 9: Perir non può chi tien per scorta il Cielo (Ulisse, Minerva)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Furio Zanasi, Hana Blažíková

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 10: Io vidi, o pelegrin, de' Proci amanti (Eumete, Ulisse)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Furio Zanasi

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 11: Del mio lungo vïaggio i torti errori (Telemaco, Penelope)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Krystian Adam, Lucile Richardot

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act II Scene 12: Sempre, villano Eumete (Antinoo, Eumete, Iro, Ulisse, Telemaco, Penelope, Pisandro, Anfinomo)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Gianluca Buratto, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Robert Burt, Furio Zanasi, Krystian Adam, Lucile Richardot, Michał Czerniawski, Gareth Treseder

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 1: O dolor, o martir che l'alma attrista (Iro)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Robert Burt

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 4: Forza d'occulto affetto (Eumete, Penelope)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Lucile Richardot

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 5: È saggio Eumete, è saggio (Telemaco, Penelope)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Krystian Adam, Lucile Richardot

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 6: Fiamma è l’ira, o gran Dea (Minerva, Giunone)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Hana Blažíková, Francesca Boncompagni

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 7: Gran Giove (Giunone, Giove, Nettuno, Minerva, Chorus)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francesca Boncompagni, John Taylor Ward, Gianluca Buratto, Hana Blažíková

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 8: Ericlea, che vuoi far? (Ericlea)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Francesca Biliotti

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 9: Ogni vostra ragion sen porta 'l vento (Penelope, Telemaco, Eumete)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Lucile Richardot, Krystian Adam, Francisco Fernández-Rueda

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Act III Scene 10: O delle mie fatiche (Ulisse, Penelope, Ericlea)

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Performer: Furio Zanasi, Lucile Richardot, Francesca Biliotti

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner

Monteverdi’s great opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composer’s most poignant, heart-breaking music. After two brutal decades of war, the weary Ulysses is washed up on the rocky shore of his home island of Ithaca. There, he discovers the hordes of depraved admirers who have beseiged his faithful wife Penelope in his 20-year absence – and launches into battle to win back her love. Monteverdi’s opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composer’s most poignant, heartbreaking music. John Eliot Gardiner leads an exemplary cast of world-class singers alongside the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in this live recording from The National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland – part of their critically acclaimed Monteverdi 450 tour in 2017.

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REVIEWS:

Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances. Furio Zanasi, Lucile Richardot, and Hana Blažiková bring a depth of acting almost without rival.

– BBC Music Magazine

Recitatives flicker and spark with detail. Instrumental textures are spare and speeds swift, and there’s a welcome sense of narrative drive. Text is king, but it’s the rhetoric of the English Baroque Soloists that really counts. Zanasi is a smooth, patrician Uliss. There are more classically beautiful accounts of Il ritorno d’Ulisse available, but perhaps none with quite so much life.

– Gramophone