The Time of Monteverdi [Box Set]
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.RIC107

By A Sei Voci, Accademia Strumentale Italiana Akademia, Capella Sancti Michaelis, Cappella Mediteranea, Choeur De Chambre De Namur, Clematis, Concerto Italiano, Concerto Palatino, Concerto Soave, Doulce Memoire, Ensemble Aurora, L'Acheron, La Fenice, and La Vene. By Agostini, Biagio Marini, Bovicelli, Buonamente, Caccini, Capuana, Cavalieri, Cavalli, Claudio Monteverdi, Fantini, Farina, Fescobaldi, Gabrieli, Giacomo Carissimi, Giovanni Bassano, Giovanni Legrenzi, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Grandi, Kapsberger, Landi, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Malvezzi, Marazzoli, Maurizio Cazzati, Mazzocchi, Pe, and Tarquinio Merula. Classical. Book and 8 CDs. Published by Naxos (NX.RIC107).

The second volume in the History of Early Music series on Ricercar, this staggeringly voluminous 8 CD compilation covers the period of almost a century ranging from the late 1500s to late 1600s with the transition to the Baroque era. With the profane and sacred intersecting and the birth of various idioms including opera and oratorio, along with forms such as the sonata; this collection features a comprehensive survey of the composers of this era enlivened with performances by acclaimed ensembles and soloists. A collection to be reveled in and lived with, it also features a book discussing the Baroque aesthetic and written by Jerome Lejeune.