Claudio Monteverdi - An Introduction To Orfeo

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Claudio Monteverdi
An Introduction To Orfeo

Album US 2008 on Naxos label
Spoken Word and Classical (Renaissance, Baroque, Opera, Education)

Music from Orfeo taken from Naxos 8.554094-95 Total Running Time - 77:03 Cast: Music as Prologue - Marinella Pennicchi, soprano Orfeo - Alessandro Carmignani, tenor Euridice - Marinella Pennicchi, soprano Nymph/Messenger; Prosperine - Rosita Frisani, soprano Hope - Patrizia Vaccari, soprano Charon - Carlo Lepore, bass Apollo/Echo - Giovanni Pentasuglia, tenor Pluto - Gastone Sarti, bass Shepherd 1/Spirit 1 - Michel van Goethem, countertenor Shepherd 2/Spirit 3 - Pietro Valguarnera, tenor Shepherd 3/Spirit 4 - Giovanni Pentasuglia, tenor Shepherd 4/Spirit 5 - Roberto Abbondanza, baritone Shepherd 5 - Gastone Sarti, bass Spirit 2 - Gian Luigi Maria Ghiringhelli, countertenor Spirit 6 - Marcello Vargetto, bass Spirit 7 - Marcello Vargetto, bass

Musicians

	Claudio Monteverdi voc, 1567-1643 IT album by
	Sergio Vartolo org, hps, IT conductor
	David Timson voc, *1950 GB narrator
	Cappella Musicale Di S. Petronio Di Bologna , orchestra

Producers

Sarah Butcher edited by

Norman Goodman engineer

Genevieve Helsby producer

Composers

Thomson Smillie

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Duration
1	Background	Claudio Monteverdi
2	Introduction	Claudio Monteverdi	6:42
3	Monteverdi's Early Life And Education	Claudio Monteverdi	6:34
4	Monteverdi's Other Operas And Performance Practice	Claudio Monteverdi	5:15
5	Orfeo	Claudio Monteverdi
6	Prologue	Claudio Monteverdi	5:56
7	A Shepherd Summons The Chorus To Sing	Claudio Monteverdi	3:44
8	Orpheus Is Told That Eurydice Is Dead	Claudio Monteverdi	7:01
9	Expressions Of Grief From The Chorus And Shepherds	Claudio Monteverdi	3:46
10	Orpheus Descends Into Hell	Claudio Monteverdi	7:13
11	Charon's Response To Orpheus	Claudio Monteverdi	5:56
12	Pluto's Pronouncement	Claudio Monteverdi	4:44
13	Doubts Assail Orpheus	Claudio Monteverdi	6:47
14	Orpheus's Long Lament And The First Ending	Claudio Monteverdi	6:11
15	The Second Ending	Claudio Monteverdi	7:06

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