It's hard to say what the name "Catacoustic Consort" is supposed to mean, but this, the group's debut disc, holds lots of promise. These "Italian Dramatic Laments" are soprano solos, accompanied by continuo group of theorbo, viola da gamba, and Baroque harp. Leading off the disc is the Lamento d'Arianna of Monteverdi, the only surviving section of a lost opera, and the other vocal selections are in the passionate, rhythmically free, semi-improvised language of the earliest operas. Soprano Catherine Webster does not rip into ...
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It's hard to say what the name "Catacoustic Consort" is supposed to mean, but this, the group's debut disc, holds lots of promise. These "Italian Dramatic Laments" are soprano solos, accompanied by continuo group of theorbo, viola da gamba, and Baroque harp. Leading off the disc is the Lamento d'Arianna of Monteverdi, the only surviving section of a lost opera, and the other vocal selections are in the passionate, rhythmically free, semi-improvised language of the earliest operas. Soprano Catherine Webster does not rip into early Baroque ornamentation with the muscularity of some of her contemporaries, but her singing is expressive in a quiet, graceful way. She has a very nice way of bringing out the unearthly chromatic passages in Uccidimi dolore (track 12) by one of the creators of opera, Jacopo Peri. The other opera pioneer, Giulio Caccini, is represented by several works here as well. There are also some instrumental pieces by Giovanni Kapsberger that are a little inappropriate chronologically but...
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