Barbara Strozzi

La Venexiana - Barbara Strozzi: Primo Libro de' Madrigali (1997)

La Venexiana - Barbara Strozzi: Primo Libro de' Madrigali (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 62:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Cantus | # C 9612 | Recorded: 1997

The members of the ensemble La Venexiana won in 1994 the Gramophone Award for Early Music under the name Concerto Italiano. They are some of the most experienced European performers in the early music field, and have been singing together for many years, establishing a new style in Italian early music performances: a warm, truly Mediterranean blend of textual declamation, textural color and harmonic refinement. This repertoire seems to be created as if to let them fully show their expressive powers. Barbara Strozzi's talent shines in this pieces, designed to show her excepcional dramatic powers and unique gifts for musical imaginery. Many of these madrigals have the appearance of a succession of operatic scenes in miniature, each with its particular dramatic atmosphere and with the participation of several soloists.
Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 60:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambronay Éditions | # AMY020 | Recorded: 2008

The virtuoso Venetian diva of the 17th century, Barbara Strozzi, Monteverdi's heiress, journeys the passions of the soul through a daring mosaic of styles and rhythms. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, who is one of the rising generation of baroque conductors, is leading a major research project on the specific parameters which make up musical performance, paying particular attention to improvisation techniques and the relationship between text and music. His work at the Ambronay Festival has focused on the performance of 17th-century Italian music including rich and little-known repertoire of motets and madrigals by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda and Antonia Bembo.
Renata Dubinskaitė, Canto Fiorito - Barbara Strozzi: La Voce Sola (2021)

Renata Dubinskaitė, Canto Fiorito - Barbara Strozzi: La Voce Sola (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 274 Mb | Total time: 60:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96436 | Recorded: 2020

An homage to the Baroque singer and composer Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), this album is titled La voce sola. That final word, 'single', 'only' or 'alone', points to the fact that most of Strozzi's works are written for solo voice, usually her own, a fact that makes her music especially intimate and personal. It emphasizes the uniqueness of her musical language and her distinctive voice as a composer but also refers to the difficulties of her striving alone in her personal and creative endeavors. This recital is a career survey of this great composer, from her first collections to her last opus, in chronological order, including a world-premiere recording of a work with no opus number.
Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)

Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 440 Mb | Total time: 80:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029563221 | Recorded: 2018

Voglio cantar – ‘I want to sing’ – is Emőke Baráth’s first solo album for Erato. The young Hungarian soprano has built a special reputation in Baroque music and the prime focus here is on Barbara Strozzi, who made her name as a composer in 17th century Venice. “She must have been quite a revolutionary personality,” says Emőke Baráth. “Her music is improvisational, intuitive, even rhapsodic … She was clearly a passionate woman with a strong dramatic sense.” Baráth is joined by Il Pomo d’Oro, conducted by Francesco Corti.
Helen Charlston, Toby Carr - Battle Cry: She Speaks: Purcell, Strozzi, Eccles, Park, Kapsberger, Monteverdi, de Visée (2022)

Helen Charlston, Toby Carr - Battle Cry: She Speaks: Purcell, Strozzi, Eccles, Park, Kapsberger, Monteverdi, de Visée (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 57:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian Records | # DCD34283 | Recorded: 2021

This powerful yet understated recital of modern and seventeenth-century works aims to revisit but also to re-balance the obsession of earlier music with female abandonment and lament. The stories of women such as Dido and Ariadne have been told and retold throughout history. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston reconsiders the assumed helplessness of those often seen as being left behind by male adventure and success. A recent work commissioned for Charlston from the composer Owain Park further takes up the challenge of giving ‘abandoned women’ their own platform, as well as exploring new possibilities for an instrumental pairing – that of voice and theorbo – that remains little explored in contemporary music.
La Botta Forte - Palpiti del Cuore: Fontana, Handel, Mancini, Strozzi, Vivaldi (2014)

La Botta Forte - Palpiti del Cuore: Fontana, Handel, Mancini, Strozzi, Vivaldi (2014)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 384 Mb | Total time: 73:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Fra Bernardo | # FB 1409783 | Recorded: 2014

Venice, Rome, Naples witnessed the birth of the compositions found on this CD, places with pasts of thriving musical communities. In addition, these contained some of the greatest artistic innovation of the time.The "stile moderno", which marks the beginning of a new period in music, has its origins in Italy in the late 16th century, when composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Giulio Caccini created a new expressive style, soon to affect the development of the whole of occidental music.
Udo Wachtveitl - Barbara Strozzi: Lauscht, ihr Liebenden! (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Udo Wachtveitl - Barbara Strozzi: Lauscht, ihr Liebenden! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 80:05 minutes | 727 MB
Classical, Spoken Word | Label: BR Klassik, Official Digital Download

A young female singer in 17th-century Venice: she is virtuoso, attractive and extremely charming, and the gentlemen of her select audience are at her feet. They call her the ""Singing Venus"". But Barbara Strozzi wants more: she regularly publishes her compositions – more than any woman before her. The new BR-KLASSIK audio biography tells her story. Until the 20th century, female composers had a hard time in a male-dominated art. And in historiography for even longer: it was not until 1978 that a female American musicologist published the first specialist article on Barbara Strozzi.

Paolo Zanzu, Le Stagioni - Un secolo cantante (2023)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 17, 2024
Paolo Zanzu, Le Stagioni - Un secolo cantante (2023)

Paolo Zanzu, Le Stagioni - Un secolo cantante (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 315 Mb | Total time: 59:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | # A553 | Recorded: 2022

After the success ofOfficina Romana(awarded 5 Diapasons, 5 stars inMusica, and selected amongst the best albums inLe Mondein 2021), Le Stagioni, under the direction of Paolo Zanzu, invites the listeneron a journey through 17th-century Venice in the company of outstanding singers:Emmanuelle de Negri, Blandine Staskiewicz, Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian, Zachary Wilder and Salvo Vitale.From 1637 to 1645, between the opening of the firstpublicopera houses and the start ofthe Cretan War, Venicewitnessed a musical blossoming of international significance.

Paolo Zanzu, Le Stagioni - Un secolo cantante (2023)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 17, 2024
Paolo Zanzu, Le Stagioni - Un secolo cantante (2023)

Paolo Zanzu, Le Stagioni - Un secolo cantante (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 315 Mb | Total time: 59:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | # A553 | Recorded: 2022

After the success ofOfficina Romana(awarded 5 Diapasons, 5 stars inMusica, and selected amongst the best albums inLe Mondein 2021), Le Stagioni, under the direction of Paolo Zanzu, invites the listeneron a journey through 17th-century Venice in the company of outstanding singers:Emmanuelle de Negri, Blandine Staskiewicz, Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian, Zachary Wilder and Salvo Vitale.From 1637 to 1645, between the opening of the firstpublicopera houses and the start ofthe Cretan War, Venicewitnessed a musical blossoming of international significance.Numerous operas were premiered on Venetian stages, with travellers from all over Europe in attendance. Alongside famous extracts ofL'incoronazione di PoppeaandIl ritorno d'Ulisse in patria,Un secolo cantante allows us to hear little-known works by Cavalli, Sacrati and Strozzi, as well as previously unrecorded, forgotten pieces, making use of sources from the period and the most recent scholarship to offer a fresh listening experience of this fascinating music.
Catherine Bott - To the Unknown Goddess: A Portrait of Barbara Strozzi (1997)

Catherine Bott - To the Unknown Goddess: A Portrait of Barbara Strozzi (1997)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:09:10 | 352 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Carlton Classics | Catalog: 30366 00412

Several female composers achieved some slight renown in 17th-century Italy, but none was more widely known or praised than the extraordinary Barbara Strozzi. This famously virtuoso singer wrote herself truly imaginative, compelling music–the wide-ranging, fluttering runs of the wedding song "Gite, o giorni dolenti," the passionate anguish and the unsettling chromatic turns in the melody of "Lagrime mie," the coquettish humor of "La sol fa mi re do," and on and on. For this "portrait of Barbara Strozzi," Catherine Bott gives a spectacular performance, encompassing the wide range (both vocal and emotional) and technical challenges of this music with ease and dramatic flair.