Swedish ensemble Harmony of Voices performs a variety of early Baroque vocal and instrumental music from Italy. Founded in 2003, the group is conducted by Fredrick Malmberg, who leads it with discipline, energy, and attention to the details of period-performance practice. The quintet of singers has pure, focused voices ideal for this repertoire and they make the most of the expressive possibilities the composers wrote into the music. In the madrigal Zefiro Torna, one of the composer's liveliest and catchiest works, tenors ...
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Swedish ensemble Harmony of Voices performs a variety of early Baroque vocal and instrumental music from Italy. Founded in 2003, the group is conducted by Fredrick Malmberg, who leads it with discipline, energy, and attention to the details of period-performance practice. The quintet of singers has pure, focused voices ideal for this repertoire and they make the most of the expressive possibilities the composers wrote into the music. In the madrigal Zefiro Torna, one of the composer's liveliest and catchiest works, tenors Leif Aruhn-Solén and Johan Linderoth sing with intensity, humor, and pathos as the different sections require, and the ensemble plays the passacaglia with nuance and spirit. In "Amor," the middle section of "Lamento della Ninfa," another passacaglia that brings of some of Monteverdi's subtlest and most memorable text setting, mezzo-soprano Lena-Susanne Norin sings with soulful, limpid tone, accompanied by the two tenors. The Monteverdi works stand out from those by Dario Castelli and...
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