From Dido's desperate love to Mary's poignant fervour... This sumptuous album, combines the sacred and profane, the cult of the Virgin Mary as opposed to Dido, Queen of Carthage, almost exclusively by 17th century Venetian Baroque composers. It includes the iconic aria [Dido's Lament], Cavalli's Lamento di Didone and Scarlatti's Didone delirante, long thought lost, and a previously unrecorded cantata by Faggioli. The vocally distinctive, theatrically brilliant French mezzo Stephanie d'Oustrac is accompanied by Ens Amarillis and Violaine Cochard.
Works:
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Cavalli: Canzon
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Cavalli: Lamento di Didone
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Faggioli: Cantata a voce sola
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Falconieri: Passacalle
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Falconieri: Passacalle à 3
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Marini, B: Sinfonia Primo Tuono
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Marini, B: Sinfonia Sesto Tuono
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Monteverdi: Pianto della Madonna 'Iam moriar, mi fili' (sopra il Lamento dell'Arianna), SV 288
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
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Purcell: When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
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Rossi, Luigi: Fantasia "Les pleurs d'Orphée"
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Scarlatti, A: Concerto VII in D major
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Strozzi: O Maria