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I Fagiolini

The Times
The Times

Monteverdi: Flaming Heart

(Chandos)

Engaging convincingly in the Italian baroque, the one-per- part singers sigh, plead and agonise like lovers in the unaccompanied choral recitatives (madrigals).

Instruments are part of the I Fagiolini fold now: solo madrigalists bathe in beautiful, moaning gut-strung violins, plunking chitarrone and glittering harpsichord. The mezzo Clare Wilkinson sings less assertively than she might the famous Orfeo opening I Am Music, but is expressive on the sumptuous Con Che Soavita. The director Robert Hollingworth cherry-picks judiciously from I Fagiolini’s forthcoming DVD The Full Monteverdi to illustrate the wonderful accompanying booklet.

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RICK JONES