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Composer:
Stefano Landi

Artist(s):
Cyril Auvity
Guillemette Laurens

Conductor:
Francoise Lasserre

Background: Between the earliest musical settings of the myth of Orpheus by Peri and Monteverdi, and Luigi Rossi's spectacular version in the Roman idiom, comes Stefano Landi's La morte d'Orfeo, a work which illustrates the transitional period of post-Florentine opera before its evolution towards the Roman style.

La morte d’Orfeo is a work of its composer's youth, dedicated in 1619 to Alessandro Mattei, a close associate of Pope Paul V (Borghese) at Padua. We know nothing of the circumstances in which it was performed. Similarly, the author of the libretto is unidentified; it may have been Landi himself. However, we cannot but notice a number of major innovations unknown to his predecessors: Landi introduces genuinely comic elements into his opera, as well as substantial choral scenes which strongly contribute to its architecture. Yet this only heightens the drama and intensity of the tragic scenes. The style alternates between recitatives and strophic arias. All these elements combine to make up a work that appears as the true precursor of Baroque opera.

CATALOGUE NR: ZZT070402
RECORD LABEL: Zig Zag
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 14.43 including VAT, or £ 12.55 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jul-2007

COMPOSER: Stefano Landi
TITLE: La Morte d'Orfeo - complete
CONDUCTOR: Francoise Lasserre
ARTISTS: Cyril Auvity   Guillemette Laurens   Jan van Elsacker   Akademia

- Oct-2007 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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