Coppini, Monteverdi & Ruffo – Nova Metamorfosi

Choc in Le Monde de la Musique
10 in Répertoire
5 in Diapason
Recommended by Classica
5 stars in Goldberg
Caecilia 2004 Award (Belgian musical press)
2004 Record of the Year Award from Radio Klara (Belgium)
CD of the Month in Toccata (Germany)
Recommended by Musik an sich (Germany)
5 crotchets in Pizzicato (Germany)
2004 German Music Critics’ Prize
Prelude Classical Awards 2004 (Netherlands)

This programme of Milanese music, which features the well-known metamorfosi of the seventeenth century, brings together a Mass by Vincenzo Ruffo (who modified his style in keeping with the demands of the Counter Reformation), the luxuriant ornamentation – nowhere more florid than in Milan – that turns music into a multi-layered and complex improvisation, and the works of Monteverdi transformed for secular use. The result is a compelling mystical experience.

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Claire Lefilliâtre, Catherine Padaut sopranos
Damien Guillon alto
Jean-François Lombard, Bruno Bonhoure, Jean François Novelli tenors
Bernard Arrieta baritone
Philippe Roche bass
Kaori Uemura treble viol
Sylvia Abramowicz, Isabelle Saint-Yves bass viols
Martin Bauer violone
William Dongois cornett
Mélanie Flahaut dulcian
Jean Luc Tamby bass cistern
Elizabeth Geiger positive organ
Vincent Dumestre theorbo; conductor

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