L'Orfeo

Album by Claudio Monteverdi & Apollo’s Fire & Jeannette Sorrell

L'Orfeo is an opera by Claudio Monteverdi, first performed in 1607. An early Baroque work, it blends expressive recitative and madrigalian techniques with varied instrumental colours and ritornelli to create dramatic vocal writing, and it represents Monteverdi's shift from composing madrigals to developing staged opera within music history.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    L'Orfeo: Toccata
    1:56
  2. 2.
    L'Orfeo: Prologue, Ritornello, "I Come From High Parnassus"
    5:44
  3. 3.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "On This Delightful Day When Fortune"
    1:33
  4. 4.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Come, Hymen, Come With Blessing"
    0:54
  5. 5.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Muses, In Lofty Parnassus, Belov'd Of Heaven"
    0:59
  6. 6.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Come From The Mountains And From The Fountains"
    1:45
  7. 7.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "O Noble Singer, Who, With Your Lamenting"
    0:44
  8. 8.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Rose Of The Heavens, Glorious Apollo"
    2:05
  9. 9.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "How Can You Know, Orfeo, The Joy That Fills My Heart At Your Rejoicing"
    0:49
  10. 10.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Come From The Mountains And From The Fountains"
    1:45
  11. 11.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, Ritornello, "Come, Hymen, Come With Blessing"
    0:56
  12. 12.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Darkness Turned Into Day, And Grief To Gladness"
    0:45
  13. 13.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "Let None Despair Though Grief May O'erwhelm Him"
    1:40
  14. 14.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "For Though The Tempest, Huge With Grim Foreboding"
    1:11
  15. 15.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "And When The Frost Has Pierced The Bones Of Winter"
    0:27
  16. 16.
    L'Orfeo: Act I, "See Him Come - Brave Orfeo!"
    0:44
  17. 17.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, Sinfonia, "Happy Fields, I'm Now Returning"
    1:33
  18. 18.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "In Our Enchanting Meadows"
    1:31
  19. 19.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, Ritornello, "Shady Woods, Do You Remember How You Heard My Long Lamenting"
    2:16
  20. 20.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "O See, Orfeo, How Wood And Meadow Smile"
    0:30
  21. 21.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "Ah, Bitter Fortune! Ah, Fate Calous And Cruel!"
    6:03
  22. 22.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "Ah, Bitter Fortune! Ah, Fate Calous And Cruel!"
    1:15
  23. 23.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "You Have Left Me, Have Left Me In Darkenss, And I Still Living?"
    2:24
  24. 24.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "Ah, Bitter Fortune! Ah, Fate Callous And Cruel!"
    1:13
  25. 25.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "But I Whose Tongue Is Guilty, I Who Thrust With My Dagger"
    1:40
  26. 26.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, Sinfonia
    1:05
  27. 27.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "Who Shall Restore Our Losses"
    1:47
  28. 28.
    L'Orfeo: Act II: "Ah, Bitter Fortune! Ah, Fate Calous And Cruel!"
    2:14
  29. 29.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, "Ah, Bitter Fortune!"
    0:38
  30. 30.
    L'Orfeo: Act II, Ritornello
    1:01

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    L'Orfeo: Act III,Sinfonia
    1:16
  2. 3.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "Hope, You Are Still My Escort"
    1:12
  3. 4.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "Here The Desolate Marshes"
    2:51
  4. 5.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "Goddess, Ah, Why Do You Leave Me"
    0:45
  5. 6.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "O You, That Ere Your Death Approach This River"
    1:36
  6. 7.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, Sinfonia
    0:37
  7. 8.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "I Now Implore You, O Mighty Lord All Powerful"
    8:24
  8. 9.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "But You, Noble And Wise, Have Power To Help Me"
    0:58
  9. 10.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "With Your Melodious Playing You Delight Me And Soothe Me"
    0:46
  10. 11.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "Ah! Miserable Lover, In Vain"
    1:15
  11. 12.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, Sinfonia
    0:31
  12. 13.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "He Sleeps Now, For Though No Pity In His Heart"
    1:41
  13. 14.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, Sinfonia
    0:37
  14. 15.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, "Now Sing Praises To Man And His Endurances!"
    1:55
  15. 16.
    L'Orfeo: Act III, Sinfonia
    0:38
  16. 17.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "My Lord, This Wretched Mortal Comes"
    2:21
  17. 18.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "Fate's Laws Unswerving That Rule Our Lives And Actions"
    2:05
  18. 19.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "O Ruler Of The Eternal Realm Of Shadows"
    1:02
  19. 20.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "Lord, What Thanks Can I Render"
    1:39
  20. 21.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "Compassion, Love And Mercy Triumphant Vanquish Darkness"
    0:21
  21. 22.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "Here Is The Noble Singer To Lead His Euridice To Realms Of Daylight"
    0:13
  22. 23.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "O My Lyre, Who Can Be Worthy To Celebrate Your Praises?"
    1:15
  23. 24.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "But While I'm Singing: Ah, Me!"
    1:53
  24. 25.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "You Broke The Contract, And So The Law Condemns You"
    0:08
  25. 26.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "Ah! Vision Far Too Blissful, And Far Too Bitter!"
    1:07
  26. 27.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "Turn Again To The Darkness Most Unhappy Euridice"
    0:18
  27. 28.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, "My Dearest Life, Where Are You?"
    0:34
  28. 29.
    L'Orfeo: Act IV, Sinfonia
    1:27
  29. 30.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, Ritornello
    0:50
  30. 31.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "Once More, Green Fields Of My Country, Once More I Find You"
    6:04
  31. 32.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "All Other Women Full Of Lies And Treachery"
    0:43
  32. 33.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, Sinfonia
    0:34
  33. 34.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "Why Suffer Torment And Give Your Soul A Captive"
    4:00
  34. 35.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "We Rise, Rejoicing To Heaven"
    1:08
  35. 36.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, Ritornello, "Rise Orfeo, Noble Hero"
    1:05
  36. 37.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, Moresca
    1:52
  37. 38.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "All Other Women Full Of Lies And Treachery"
    1:04
  38. 39.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "All Hail To Father Bacchus!"
    0:52
  39. 40.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "Flown He Is! He Has Escaped Our Noble Vengeance"
    0:53
  40. 41.
    L'Orfeo: Act V. "'Twas You, O Lord, Who Found The Plant So Happy"
    0:34
  41. 42.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, "Yes, You, The Tamer Of The East So Brilliant"
    1:28
  42. 43.
    L'Orfeo: Act V, Moresca
    1:42

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