Vecchi - L'Amfiparnaso (abridged)

Orfeo Orazio Vecchi - L'Amfiparnaso

Eine harmonische Komödie
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir. & members of the Collegium Aureum
Harmonia mundi HM 30 693 [LP,mono]
Harmonia mundi HM St 30 693 [LP, stereo]
Harmonia mundi HM 30 497 (sticker on sleeve) / HMS 30 693 (LP) [LP]
Harmonia mundi (BASF) 29 29 094-8 [LP]
Angelicum LPA 5972 [LP, mono]
Angelicum STA 8972 [LP, stereo]
Deutsche Harmonia mundi DHM 20.371 [LP]
Deutsche Harmonia mundi (EMI - Electrola) 1C 065 99 816 [LP]
Ars Nova C1S.151 [LP]
Orpheus (Musical Heritage Society) OR 360 [LP]
Deutsche Harmonia mundi (BMG) GD 77 211 [CD]
BMG Japan BVCD-38173 [CD]

Contents:

Orfeo Orazio Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso (excerpts)

1. Prologo
2. Act One of the harmonious comedy, scene one
3. Act One, scene two
4. Act One, scene three
5. Act Two of the harmonious comedy, scene one
6. Act Two, scene two
7. Act Two, scene three
8. Act Two, scene four

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9. Act Two, scene five
10. Act Three of the harmonious comedy, scene one
11. Act Three, scene two
12. Act Three, scene three
13. Act Three, scene four
14. Act Three, scene five and last

Playing time: 52' 38" (LP); 53'05" (CD)

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano), Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Members of the Collegium Aureum
Hans-Martin Linde (recorder), Ferdinand Conrad (recorder), Otto Steinkopf (dulcimer), Ilse Brix-Meinert (treble viol), Günther Lemmen (treble viol, alto viol), Franz Josef Maier (alto viol), August Wenzinger (viola da gamba), Johannes Koch (viola da gamba), Fritz Neumeyer (harpsichord), Walter Gerwig (lute)
Karl Wesseler (recitative)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Cedernsaal, Schloß Kirchheim bei Mindelheim [05/1962];
Rel.: 1962 , 1991 (CD)

Compilation
Harmonia mundi HM 30 628/29 / HMS 30 628/29 [LPx2, mono / stereo] Vecchi - L'Amfiparnaso (complete version)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 98-23 (july/august 1965 (as HM 30 628/29))

Comments:
Information from LP (Bielefelder katalog, 1970) and LP (HM & Electrola). Supplementary information provided by Carlo Ettore Bruno.

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