The influence of the concerto delle donne — a group of professional female musicians from the late Italian Renaissance. The fourth program for Women’s History Month features virtuosic music by Luzzascho Luzzaschi, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, and Caroline Shaw.
A Consort of Women
TENET Vocal Artists (left to right) Jolle Greanleaf, Molly Quinn, and Virginia Warnken. (Photo: Becky Oehlers Photography)
Playlist
Luzzasco Luzzaschi: “O dolcezz’amarissime d’Amore”
Roberta Mameli, Emanuela Galli, and Francesca Cassinari, sopranos
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina, director
Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina
Scene 2, “Rimanti, o mio signore”
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel, conductor
Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina
Scene 2, “Chi nel fior di giovinezza”
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, soprano
Mauro Borgioni, baritone
Allabastrina & La Pifaresca
Elena Sartori, conductor
Claudio Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea
Act 3, “Scendiam, scendiam” (Chorus of Cupids)
Marinelli Pennichini, Catherine Bott, and Costanze Backes, sopranos
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Barbara Strozzi: “Le tre Grazie a Venere”
Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, sopranos
Virginia Warnken kelsey, mezzo-soprano
(Tenet)
Barbara Strozzi: “Che si può fare,” Op. 8
Emöke Baráth, soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro
Francesco Corti, director
Caroline Shaw: “Dolce cantavi”
Tenet
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