Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Emanuela Galli (La Musica/Eurydice), Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo), Marina De Liso (Messaggiera), Cristina Calzolari (Proserpina), Matteo Bellotto (Plutone), Josè Lo Monaco (Speranza), Salvo Vitale (Caronte), Vincenzo Di Donato (Apollo), Francesca Cassinari (Ninfa), Giovanni Caccamo (Pastore I), Makoto Sakurada (Pastore II/Spirito I), Claudio Cavina (Pastore III), Tony Corradini (Pastore IV/Spirito II). La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina
Well here is yet another interpretation of L'Orfeo. It's quite earthy and rugged - a lot of the continuo is done by some kind of musette - wouldn't that have sounded too peasanty in the court of Mantua among all those nobles? Or was it appropriately pastoral? Anyway my feeling: I prefer the theorbo as a Baroque continuo instrument, and then the harpsichord.
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