Strozzi

Barbara Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti
Maria Christina Kiehr / Concerto Soave
L'Empreinte Digitale 13048

Contents:

  1. Barbara Strozzi: Salve Regina
  2. Strozzi: Erat Petrus
  3. Strozzi: Mater Anna
  4. Bernardo Gianoncelli: Tastagiata 1
  5. Strozzi: Nascente Maria
  6. Gianoncelli: Tastegiata 2
  7. Strozzi: Parasti cor meum
  8. Biagio Marini: Sinfonia Secondo Tuono
  9. Strozzi: Hodie oritur
  10. Tarquinio Merula: Cappriccio cromatico
  11. Strozzi: Salve sancta caro
  12. Merula: Canzon
  13. Strozzi: O Maria

Maria Christina Kiehr

Concerto Soave

Christina Pluhar (triple harp, theorbo), Sylvie Moquet (gamba, violoncello), Matthias Spaeter (archlute, chitarrone), Jean-Marc Aymes (organ, harpsichord)

Playing time: 71'

Recording date: May 1995

A beautiful and compelling recording devoted to sacred music by Barbara Strozzi.

Nathan Wilkes

This recording has been reissued in the 3CD collection "Baroque Angels" L'Empreinte Digitale 13097.

A fine recording devoted to the secular music of Barbara Strozzi (1619-1664):

Strozzi: Primo Libro de' Madrigali (1644)
La Venexiana
Cantus 9612

See that citation for more listings of Strozzi's increasingly famous madrigals.

Recordings devoted to Strozzi's arias & cantatas:

Strozzi: Cantates
Susanna Rydén / Ensemble Musica Fiorita
Harmonia Mundi "Documenta" 905249
Strozzi: Opera Ottava - Arias & Cantatas
La Risonanza - Fabio Bonizzoni
Glossa 921503
Strozzi: Arie / Canti / Lamenti
Ensemble Incantato
CPO 999533
Strozzi: Arias & Duets
Brandes / Lane / Richards / New York Baroque - Eric Milnes
Dorian 93218
Strozzi: Cantate e ariette a voce sola
Ensemble La commedia del mondo
Cascavelle 3035
Strozzi: Cantates
Judith Nelson / Concerto Vocale
Harmonia Mundi "Curiosita" 290 1114

A recording devoted to another significant female composer of the era, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-c.1676):

Cozzolani: I Vespri Natalizi (1650)
Cappella Artemisia - Candace Smith
Tactus 600301

And a general collection:

Donne barocche
Roberta Invernizzi / Bizzarrie armonische - Elena Russo
Opus 111 30-341

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Todd M. McComb