…Vecchi's 1597 madrigal cycle… mixes slapstick scenes from the commedia dell'arte with lofty lovers' laments. …I Fagiolini… sing and act the cycle in a little stage such as 16th-century Venetians might have crowded round. …guffawing at the miserly merchant Pantalone, the caddish Captain Cardon, assorted servants and trollops, I simply didn't care - as I would have, listening without pictures - than canons of vocal decorum were being gleefully guyed. The singing's superb, anyway, as is the five-channel sound.