This record serves as a
valuable testimony to the culture of the vocal art in Italy
in the realm of sacred music, and is centred round the
passionate declamation of Monteverdi. The present
interpretation highlights again the joint aesthetic and
technical characteristics of the early Italian school of
singing. It necessary to provide these details on the
sleeves notes of this recording of sacred music in order to
approach this beautiful music by means of the interpretation
of Nella ANFUSO, guiding us to the splendours of the high
Italian school of singing, the same art which was that of
Vittoria Archilei at the court of the Medici in Tuscany; of
Leonora Baroni, daughter of Adriana Basile (who was so
admired by Monteverdi at the court of Mantua); of
Margherita, daughter of Francesca Caccini. A veritable hymn
to vocal beauty.
Prof. Annibale Gianuario |