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MONTEVERDI
Il sesto libro de madrigali, 1614 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "The elite Italian ensemble La Venexiana bring words and music vividly to life." The Sunday Times |
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MONTEVERDI
Il settimo libro de madrigali, 1619 'Concerto' La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "still has no serious rival as a recording of the collection as a whole." BBC Music |
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MONTEVERDI
Il terzo libro de madrigali, 1592 La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa La Venexiana Monteverdi Madrigals / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "I find La Venexiana's darker hues and dramatic but not histrionic approach to be unbeatable." Gramophone |
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MARENZIO
Nono Libro de Madrigali (9th Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] |
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GESUALDO
Quarto Libro di Madrigali (Fourth Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "This exquisitely modulated Italian ensemble is wonderfully discriminating, extracting the eloquence of the mercurial lines and unobstrusively seeking architectural sense behind the text... Book 4 is heady stuff, indeed" Winner Early Music, The... |
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LUCA MARENZIO
Sesto Libro de Madrigali [Sixth Book of Madrigals] La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Recorded in Roletto (Chiesa della BV al Colletto), Italy, Feb 2001 |
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SIGISMONDO D'INDIA
Terzo Libro de Madrigali (3rd Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) |
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GESUALDO
5th Book of Madrigals La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] La Venexiana continue their acclaimed series of recordings of the complete Madrigals of Gesualdo da Venosa with this stunning recording of Book 5. |
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MONTEVERDI
Scherzi Musicali (1632) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "It is a strange album of "musical jokes" that ends with one of the most heart-rending outpourings of grief ever written for the theatre: the Lamento d'Arianna...Here, in a discreet "orchestration" by Cavina, it is the climax of a programme by the... |
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LUZZASCO LUZZASCHI
Luzzaschi: Concerto delle Dame Roberta Mameli, Emanuela Galli, Francesca Cassinari (sopranos) La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana now return to the end of the 16th century, following the 'Poppea' of Monteverdi with the 'Artemisia' by Cavalli. They put their distinctively Italian mark on what was, for a long time, 'secret' music: that composed... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Emanuela Galli, Roberta Mameli, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Xenia Meijer, Ian Honeyman / La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / 3 CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] "Galli's sensuous Poppea and Roberta Mameli's psychotic Nero climax in an almost bluesily languid duet. Not everyone will like it, but for the dramatic verve of Cavina's direction and the vividness of the text this Nerone/Poppea has to be heard." |
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ETHEL SMYTH
Smyth: Concerto for Violin, Horn,and Orchestra / Serenade in D Sophie Langdon (violin) Richard Watkins (horn) / BBC Philharmonic, Odaline de la Martinez [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Apr/1996 ] This is easily the most impressive Smyth offering yet to have appeared on CD, and it is conducted with understanding and commitment. The Penguin Guide - 1000 Greatest Classical Recordings |
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La Vent Du Nord
Tromper Le Temps [ Borealis / CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] Their sixth Borealis release, "Tromper le temps" blazes new trails through traditional ground as the group pushes their own boundaries harmonically and dynamically. Like all great artists Le Vent du Nord aren't afraid to take chances and... |
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LIDHOLM
Orchestra Music 1944-1958 Lena Nordin (soprano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra conducted by La Jia [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2003 ] "Lidholm's early output brought into focus, culminating in the magisterial Ritornell..a sonic spectacular." (Gramophone) |
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Les Tuers De La Lune De Miel (The Honeymoon Killers)
Special Manubre [ Crammed Discs / CD ] |
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Lianne La Havas
Blood [ Warner Music / CD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Lianne La Havas made a huge breakthrough with her Top 5 debut album IS YOUR LOVE BIG ENOUGH? Now the 25-year-old London-based singer-songwriter releases her eagerly anticipated new album BLOOD Sonically, BLOOD is a collection that shakes, shimmies... |
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Lianne La Havas
Blood (LP) [ Warner Music / LP - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Lianne La Havas made a huge breakthrough with her Top 5 debut album IS YOUR LOVE BIG ENOUGH? Now the 25-year-old London-based singer-songwriter releases her eagerly anticipated new album BLOOD Sonically, BLOOD is a collection that shakes, shimmies... |
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Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas [ Warner UK / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Lianne's third album and her first in five years is an album of startling beauty and insight. Working on writing and exploring her own identity, La Havas spent a lot of time moving back and forth between the UK and the States. As a result, 'Lianne... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / W. A. MOZART
Lisa Della Casa sings Handel & Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Roberta Peters (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Heinrich Hollreiser, Josef Krips, Ka [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] Among the legendary opera singers of the post-war era was Lisa Della Casa, one of the few internationally known musical stars produced by the little country of Switzerland, and a member of the exceptional Mozart ensemble built up by the Vienna State... |
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PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6 LOrchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/May/2009 ] These 2CD sets represent all of Ansermet's Prokofiev recordings for Decca. Both, the Paris Conservatoire and the Suisse Romande versions of the 'Classical' Symphony are included. |