Caccini reviews
Songs of Orpheus: Songs by Monteverdi, Caccini, Castello, Cima, Landi, Brunelli and Merula
Karim Sulayman; Apollo’s Fire/Jeanette Sorrell (Avie)
Stravaganze d'Amore! – The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
Lea Desandre, Eva Zacik, Lucile Richardot et al; Pygmalion Choir & Orchestra/Raphaël Pichon (Versailles DVD)
Nathalie Stutzmann sings Baroque arias
This selection box of Baroque arias comes from the popular 19th-century anthology of Arie Antiche edited for voice and piano by Alessandro Parisotti and widely used by vocal students even today. For this recording, Stutzmann and Orfeo 55 have revived the original versions of the arias, interweaving them with contemporary instrumental works, to produce a colourful potpourri.