| Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 5901330/32 Format: CD Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs; Danielle Borst; Guillemette Laurens; Jennifer Larmore; Axel Köhler; Michael Schopper; Lena Lootens; Karl-Ernst SchröderMonteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea An exemplary version of Monteverdi's operatic masterpiece.
‘René Jacobs revisits the tradition of performer arrangers, offering us one of the most sumptuous-sounding versions that has yet been heard.... He opts for a rich instrumentation inspired by court orchestras, and pads out the ritornellos by rewriting them for five-part ensemble... Worthy of special praise are the amazingly telling interpretation of Jennifer Larmore (Octavia), the smooth vocalising of Danielle Borst (Poppea), and the cavernous depths of Michael Schopper (Seneca).' – Denis Morrier, L'Avant-scène Opéra, no.224 (February 2005)
This title was released for the first time in 1990. Price: $39.98 |