Furio Zanasi
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Venezia Millenaria (Venice 700-1797)
2 x SACD and book
Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall
Venezia Millenaria is as kaleidoscopic as the city itself, Venice’s trademark cosmopolitanism reflected in Savall’s augmenting of his home team(s) with Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis, and an... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 3rd March 2018, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 7
RecommendedRecorded in the English Church, Den Haag and in Saint-Michel en Thiérache in January 2007 & June 2009
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (bass), Furio Zanasi (bass) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
The vocalists here are electrifying...Above all, it is the instrumentalists that make this a stellar disc; their eloquence equals and at times overflows that of the vocalists. The invention... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Hana Blažíková (Minerva/Fortuna), Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Michał Czerniawski (Pisandro), Gareth Treseder (Anfinomo), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner and Rooke’s conception for Ulisse is simple, direct and subtle. Richardot captures Penelope’s loneliness and constrained emotions...Furio Zanasi is a world-weary yet dignified Ulisse. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Furio Zanasi, Luca Dordoli (tenor) & Sergio Foresti, Antonio Abete (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
…this is unquestionably the most subtle rendering of the Orfeo text that's available on compact disc. Furio Zanasi (Orfeo) is exceptionally good. Simboli (Euridice) is pure-voiced and clear,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Opera Choice
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Building A Library, December 2025, Top Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespers
Roberta Invernizzi, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Ghelardini (countertenor), Vincenzo di Donato, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Ferrarini (tenors), Pietro Spagnoli, Furio Zanasi (baritones), Antonio Abete, Daniele Carnovich (basses)
Concerto Italiano,...
Rinaldo Alessandrini has waited long before committing to disc his thoughts on Monteverdi's most famous sacred publication. On the issues that have divided modern performers he's unflappably... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Gasparini: Atalia
Camille Poul (Atalia), Bastien Rimondi (Ormano), Furio Zanasi (Sacerdote), Mélodie Ruvio (Nurse); Ensemble Hemiolia, Emmanuel Resche-Caserta
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Like Ibn Battuta’s rihla, Jordi Savall’s musical journey offers a voyage through a somewhat idealised Orient, one held to be the cradle of knowledge, culture and religion in the 14th century…Such... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Special offer. Conti, F: David
Marijana Mijanovic (contralto), Simone Kermes (soprano), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Birgit Christensen (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto) & Vito Priante (baritone)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
David is a great find - an exceptionally inventive dramatic oratorio, its action carried vigorously along in powerful and highly original recitative. Jonathan (sung by Birgit Christensen) begs... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Disc of the month
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Handel: Dettingen Te Deum & Dixit Dominus
Coro della Radio Svizzera, Ensemble Vanitas, Diego Fasolis