Word: monteverdi
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...floor and the orchestra ground to shocked silence. Thus last week did La Scala Baritone Giuseppe Valdengo-sometime (1947-54) of the Metropolitan Opera and a notable Iago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello-throw the skids under one of the first operas ever written, Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607). From the wings issued a flying wedge of furies, shades and demons, screaming insults at the baritone, who made a hurried and unheroic exit. Umberto and his lady rose uncertainly as the audience broke into loud jeers, cheers and whistles. The conductor appeared onstage and stammered, "My humblest...
...whole idea of the revue seems mostly at fault. Its cast is limited to eight characters--so far so good-but they each are supposed to be Renaissance characters, and that's not good at all. Had Colgate Salsbury, for example, been allowed to be variations on Monteverdi all evening, as the introduction promised, the cumbersome charades might have had more point. As it was, they were discarded whenever a brighter prospect for a song or laugh presented itself and resurrected when the authors would settle for a routine smile: "I'm getting tired of these parties, the same...
...Others: Holland's Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, Italy's Giovanni Gabrielli, Claudio Monteverdi and Girolomo Frescobaldi...
...Music Club Chorus, under Howard Brown will sing shorter works by the 16th century composers Monteverdi, Morenzio, and Gesualdo di Venosa...
...Society, 3 LPs). Fifty brief selections, carefully performed and recorded. The first disk begins with the constricted Gregorian chant beginning with the 7th century, goes up to 16th century instrumental dances. No. 2 takes the story from large motets by Lassus and Byrd up through early Italian opera by Monteverdi and massive 17th century organ music. The final disk contains mostly Bach and Handel works. A scholarly collection, but with plenty of appeal to the ear as well...