Playing time: 25' 14" + 25' 13" = 50' 27"
Performers:
Ensemble Baroque de Lausanne:
[1], [5], [7], [10] Eric Tappy (tenor), Hugues Cuénod (tenor),
Étienne Bettens (bass), Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord),
Marçal Cervera (viola da gamba)
[2], [9] Eric Tappy (tenor), Étienne Bettens (bass), Christiane
Jaccottet (harpsichord), Marçal Cervera (viola da gamba)
[3]-[4], [6], [8] Eric Tappy (tenor), Hugues Cuénod (tenor),
Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord), Marçal Cervera (viola
da gamba)
Recording site and date:
Unknown [1967 or prior];
Rel.: 1968 (STU), 1980 (MUS)
Excerpts:
[1]-[5] World Record Club SOC 237 / 239 [LPx3] Claudio Monteverdi:
L'Orfeo - Madrigals (on side 6)
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 124-30 (march 1968)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Comments:
Information from LP (MHS)
"During the 1960s (Hugues Cuénod) I founded the Baroque
Ensemble of Lausanne with which I sang and recorded the works of
Monteverdi in the company of Éric Tappy and Étienne
Bettens for the voices, Christianne Jacottet at the harpsichord,
and Marçal Cervera playing the viola da gamba. Monteverdi
remains one of my dearest memories; all his works push the limits
of his musical imagination, I believe it was the recording with
Nadia (Boulanger) in 1937 that somewhat propagated Monteverdi's
music. After that, everybody started to work with it."
(Excerpts from (p. 80): Hugues Cuénod with an Agile Voice,
conversations with François Hudry, translated by Albert
Fuller, Pendragon Press, 1999).
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Pierre-F. Roberge