La Borgia

“Sutherland is in her element here - and what a wonderful score it is too…Horne has the odd moment of unsteadiness in the early parts of the opera, but she is impressive in the brilliant Brindisi of the last Act” (The Penguin Guide)

When Montserrat Caballé sang her first aria, "Com'è bello", there was a perceptible change in atmosphere. It seemed for a moment that everyone had stopped breathing. What registered, of course, was an acute awareness that there was singing of a most unusual sort. It had , to put it simply, the quality of greatness […]. What emanates from Caballé's throat can best be described as total purity - purity in the sense of majestic power and natural expresiveness. John Gruen, Herald Tribune, about the debut of Caballé as Lucrezia Borgia, Carnegie Hall, 1965.

Lucrezia: La figlia del Papa Borgia (1480-1519) - Medusa, Patrizia Bovi (2013) {Micrologus CDM0025.13.1}
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Classical / Renaissance / Harp / Lute

This CD by a spin-off group from the Ensemble Micrologus uses the colourful life of the notorious Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of the Borgia Pope and twin sister of the bloodthirsty Cesare as a peg on which to hang a selection of appropriate 15th- and 16th-century repertoire. Lucrezia’s short life was packed with incident, and as the daughter of one of Italy’s foremost families she had direct contact with many of the musicians whose music features here. Her family intrigues also meant that she moved constantly throughout Italy, experiencing the great centres of culture such as Rome and Mantua. Patrizia Bovi, who sings and plays the bray harp, and Medusa, who play a variety of stringed instruments take the same the same forthright approach to the repertoire as does Ensemble Micrologus, and there is a pleasing sparkle and energy about this CD.