Freddi
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Compared with Monteverdi’s lavish 1610 vespers, Freddi’s resources are modest…, yet the music is remarkably varied – here rapt and contemplative, there extravagantly virtuosic. The six soloists... —
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Canoro Pianto di Maria Vergine sopra la faccia di Christo Estinto
Alida Oliva (soprano), Matteo Zenatti (tenor), Michel van Goethem (contralto), Andrea Favari (bass)
Ensemble La Flora
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There is something to be said for the straightforward warts-and-all honesty of the natural sound, and this is a useful reference tool for early-17th-century Venetian church music beyond Monteverdi. —