Thomas Dunford, Anna Reinhold – Kapsberger: Labirinto d’amore (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Thomas Dunford, Anna Reinhold – Kapsberger: Labirinto d’amore (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:31 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
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The ‘Eric Clapton of the lute’ (BBC Magazine) comes back to the Alpha microphones, this time with the soprano Anna Reinhold. Here, Thomas Dunford applies his truly prodigious virtuosity to the eight Toccatas from the first book by Meister Kapsberger, giving us a veritable concert such as the composer himself might have proposed with, in counterpoint to the toccatas, a few of the loveliest airs by Caccini, Merula et al. The beauty of Anna Reinhold’s voice (a young talent noticed especially in William Christie’s ‘Jardin des voix’) has a freshness and energy that bring to mind the young performers at work in Alpha’s earliest recordings. This goes to prove that there still remains much distance to cover in the discovery of Baroque art.

Tracklist:
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
1 L’Eraclito amoroso 6’29

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
2 Toccata III 2’46
3 Toccata VI 3’54

Giulio Caccini (1551-1618)
4 Io che dal ciel cader 2’15

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
5 Toccata VII 2’45
6 Avrilla mia 3’01
7 Toccata IV 2’15

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
8 La lettera amorosa 8’17

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
9 Toccata II 2’51
10 Ultimi miei sospiri 2’15
11 Toccata V 3’39

Giulio Caccini
12 Amarilli mia bella 3’01
13 Mentre che fra doglie e pene 2’00

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
14 Toccata VIII 1’53
15 Toccata I 4’38

Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
16 Canzone spirituela sopra la nina nana 7’24

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