Chiaroscuro (Vokalensemble Nigel Rogers) ; Jacob Lindberg, theorbo ; London Baroque ; Nigel Rogers, conductor
EMI: CDM 7 63065 2; reissue of CD His Master's Voice: 1 C 069 1466941 (1983).
For 2-6 voices; 2nd work performed without acc.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Clifford Bartlett in English with French and German translations, and Italian texts with German translations (30 p.) inserted in container.
Recorded in Abbey Road Studios, London, Nov. 4-6, 1981.
Sung in Italian.
Interdette speranz'e van desio / Sigismondo d'India (7:08) -- Zefiro torna (3:36) ; Batto, qui, pianse Ergasto (3:44) ; Ogni amante è guerrier (4:45) ; Hor che'l ciel e la terra (9:06) / Claudio Monteverdi -- Fünf Madrigale auf Texte aus Giovanni Battista Guarinis "Il pastor fido": Se tu, Silvio crudel, mi saettasti (2:28) ; Ma, se con la pietà (2:17) ; Dorinda, ah! dirò "mia" (4:22) ; Ferir quel petto, Silvio? (4:08) ; Silvio, come son lassa! (3:47) / Sigismondo d'India -- O come sei gentile (3:40) ; Gira il nemico insidioso (5:38) / Claudio Monteverdi