Work: Book VIII Madrigals: Lamento della Ninfa

Well defined performances of Monteverdi madrigals are sung with I Fagiolini’s customary ease and involvement. 

Emotions run high in a programme of Monteverdi madrigals given by Cantar Lontano at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

In his 1995 book Text and Act, the musicologist Richard Taruskin wrote of the historically-informed performance movement, “the very recent concept of historical authenticity is implicitly projected back into historical periods that never knew it.