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Daylight - stories of songs, dances and loves


Reviews (21)


Kulturradio RBB

d. 18. Dec. 2017

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Bernhard Schrammek

d. 18. Dec. 2017

"Dem riesigen Gesamtwerk von Claudio Monteverdi haben Dorothee Mields und die Musiker der Lautten Compagney unter Wolfgang Katschner eine ebenso stimmige wie abwechslungsreiche Auswahl getroffen. Zu hören sind Auszüge aus Madrigalbüchern und Opern, aber auch geistliche Konzerte und ein paar Instrumentalsätze. Es handelt sich um Musik aus allen Lebensstationen Monteverdis ... Die klare und warme, zugleich aber auch so differenzierte Sopranstimme von Dorothee Mields eignet sich hervorragend für die Darbietung der affektreichen Musik von Claudio Monteverdi ... Lautten Compagney begleitet diesen berückenden Gesang mit grosser Präzision und einer reichen Palette an Klangfarben".


Kulturradio RBB

d. 23. Nov. 2016

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Bernhard Schrammek

d. 23. Nov. 2016

"Die Vokal- und Instrumentalsolisten der Cappella Mediterranea musizieren dieses Monteverdi-Programm mit Schwung und Leidenschaft. Herausragend aus der Sängerschar ist Mariana Flores mit ihrem wunderbar intonationssicheren und wandlungsfähigen Sopran, aber die Sänger begeistern auch gemeinsam als homogener Madrigalchor. Hinzu kommt ein kleines, aber sehr wirksames Instrumentalensemble mit zwei Violinen und einem farbig besetzten Continuo".


MusicWeb international

2021 November

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Gary Higginson

2021 November

"The title may be a bit of a mouthful but it does tell you what you mainly need to know. Starting with the break of day, we are taken through the lives of young lovers via madrigals and dances. These were composed by Monteverdi throughout his life, drawing on examples from the madrigal books and three of the operas ... The whole point of this disc, recorded during the lockdown, is one of joy in love and dance, and how uplifting it must have been for the performers ... This is one disc which you could play through without a stop".


MusicWeb international

2021 June

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Brian Wilson (musikanmelder)

2021 June

"Baroque before: This selection of Monteverdi madrigals from the first six books ... brings an interesting selection of the familiar and the unfamiliar ... It's not that La Compagnia can't do tragic, as their recording of Il pianto della Madonna, on their earlier recording, and the Lamento d'Amante, the long piece which closes the new recording, amply prove. The Lamento receives an emotional, but not over-egged, performance on the new Glossa".


Weekendavisen

d. 6. Nov. 2009

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Peter Johannes Erichsen

d. 6. Nov. 2009


BBC music magazine

2017 February

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Hannah French

2017 February

"An unashamedly clever programme ... These stellar performances from Cappella Mediterranea give the likes of I Fagioli a run for their money; these musicians display incredible agility between consort and operatic sound, and viariety in the individual vocal colours".


Fono Forum

2018 Mai

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Klemens Hippel

2018 Mai

"Ein Best of Monteverdi präsentieren Dorothee Mields und die Lautten Compagney unter dem Titel La dolce vita ... Eine ideale Gelegenheit für Dorothee Mields, ihre ganze Gesangkunst auszubreiten ... Durch ihre farben- und affektreiche Gesangkunst und ihre in jedem Moment überzeugende Phrasierung und Artikulation überstrahlt Dorothee Mields ohnehin (fast) alles ... Die tänzerische Seite Monteverdis wird durch schwungvoll interpretierte Instrumentalsätze gezeigt - ein schöner Rundgang durch sein Schaffen".


BBC music magazine

2017 August

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Hannah French

2017 August

"BBC music choral & song choice: These maestros of madrigals recorded much of this repertoire to great acclaim some 20 or more years ago, but the cover of darkness provides an elegant context for fresh interpretations - with striking new takes on ornamentation and dissonance, pace and affect ... A listening experience in which you can appreciate the alchemy of Monteverdi's craft and Alessandrini's execution of it".


BBC music magazine

2022 January

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Anthony Pryer

2022 January

"This is a sequel to Rinaldo Alessandrini's 2017 Monteverdi recording, 'Night stories of lovers and warriors'. It takes the story onwards to dawn with works celebrating the joys of dancing and singing in the sunlight ... With so many of Monteverdi's famous pieces included ... Alessandrini has fashioned a joyous coherence to this disc and, moreover, we should remember that his legacy extends much further than can be encompassed by a single recording".


Fono Forum

2022 Februar

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Matthias Hengelbrock

2022 Februar

"Als Gegenstück zu seiner Kompilation "Night Stories of Lovers and Warriors" (2017) gruppiert Roberto Alessandrini hier einzelne Madrigale, Sinfonien und Tänze sowie ein Opernduett zu einem Programm mit grösseren Einheiten, weiten Spannungsbögen und einer klaren Stringenz ... Die Musiker des zwischenzeitlich von anderen Ensembles überholten Concerto Italiano zeigen sich hier vokal weitgehende neu aufgestellt und somit wieder in bestform".


Fono Forum

2012 Januar

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Reinmar Emans

2012 Januar

"Montserrat Figueras, die noch mit recht schlanker stimme den affektschilderungen monteverdis nachspürt, wird bei den Arien und malenti von Ton Koopman, Andrew Lawrence-Ling, Rolf Lislevand, Paolo Pandolfo und Lorenz Duftschmid glänzend begleitet".


Fono Forum

2021 Oktober

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Reinmar Emans

2021 Oktober

"Mit sehr klarer Diktion, bei der keine Silbe verhuscht wird, spürt die Compagnia allen in Musik gesetzten Gefühlsausbrücken nach ... Er wird von den Italienern ungemein eindrücklich und geradezu extrovertiert, oft mit fein aufgefächerten Stimmgruppen umgesetzt, um dann doch weider in einen sonoren und erlösenden Ensembleklang zu münden. Hinsichtlich der Expressivität und der Affektausdeutung hat La Compagnia eine neue Zielmarke erreicht".


BBC music magazine

2021 August

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Nicholas Anderson

2021 August

"Choral & song choice: The voices of La Compagnia del Madrigale bring dramatic fervour and expressive subtlety to bear upon Monteverdi's deep psychological insight. The five and six-part vocal textures are transparent and well-balanced making the most of the composer's versatile harmonic colouring and declamatory freedom ... The singers' homogeneity of sound and immediacy of response are among the recording's several virtues".


The gramophone

2017 February

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Iain Fenlon

2017 February

"Presented in Leonardo García Alarcón's familiar textually driven manner, with every poetic nuance exploited to maximum musical effect ... this is a roller-coaster emotional ride at the highest level of interpretative and technical skill. This is simply stunning".


The gramophone

2018 June

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Alexandra Coghlan

2018 June

"The instrumental contributions throughout are a real highlight ... and Mields's artless delivery makes for an attractive and infinitely listenable recital, even if musical passions never quite glow red-hot".


Diapason

2017 mai

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Denis Morrier

2017 mai

"Vurdering: Diapason d'or".


Fono Forum

2017 Juli

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Matthias Hengelbrock

2017 Juli

"Das Ganze ist sehr ernsthaft und umsichtig vorgenommen, sodass der Musik kein Unrecht wiederfährt. Auch die Darbietung des Concerto Italiano fällt vokal wie instrumental sehr gewissenhaft und konzentriert aus".


The gramophone

2017 June

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Fabrice Fitch

2017 June

"The tone of Alessandrini's male soloists (most prominently in the Combattimento) is perhaps not classically beautiful but they have guts and a hint of menace. Anna Sinboli's Clorinda captures the character's vulnerability ... This recording is in a direct line with Alessandrini's superb account of Book 6 for Naïve, and is in many ways just as impressive".


The gramophone

2022 January

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Alexandra Coghlan

2022 January

"Editor's choice: In 2017 master of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano ripped up the rulebood with 'Night - Stories of Lovers and Warriors' ... Now, four years later, we finally get the follow-up 'Daylight - Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves' ... A recording that might reject the neat confines of complete books of madrigals in favour of creating instead a rich and surprising patchwork of pieces all connected in a coherent arc of storytelling ... You may find more richly dramatic accounts of the individual operas (scenes from which don't quite hit the ground at full dramatic speed, vocally), but you'd struggle to name a more beguiling whole of its kind ... Monteverdi remade as new".


The gramophone

2021 September

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Alexandra Coghlan

2021 September

"These are idiomatic, elegant performances, the texts articulated with care by their Italian speakers; but there's an extra gear, found in their recent Gesualdo recordings, that we lack here".


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