Title from disc label. Karim Sulayman, tenor ; Apollo's Fire, on period instruments ; Jeannette Sorrell, direction. Recorded 2017 August 20-23 Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Booklet with program notes in English and Italian texts with English translations (23 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
I. I love you... Si dolce è 'l tormento (3:35) ; Vi ricorda o bosch' ombrosi : from L'Orfeo, 1607 (2:32) ; Rosa del ciel : from L'Orfeo (2:31) / Claudio Monteverdi -- Dolcissimo sospiro / Giulio Caccini (2:55). II. ...To hell... Sonata no. 2 in D minor / Dario Castello (5:28) -- Tu se' morta, Sinfonia : from L'Orfeo / Monteverdi (4:04) -- Funesta piaggie : from L'Euridice, 1602 / Caccini -- Sonata no. 1 in G minor for violin & continuo / Giovanni Paulo Cima (4:56) -- Qual honor di te sia degno, Sinfonia : from L'Orfeo (5:00) / Monteverdi. III. ...And back... Sonata concertata XV : a quattro voci / Castello (5:04) -- Piangono al pianger mio / Sigismondo d'India (4:47) -- Canta la cicaletta (4:37) ; T'amai gran tempo (6:22) / Stefano Landi -- Non havea Febo ancora / Antonio Brunelli (2:43) -- Folle è ben che si crede / Tarquinio Merula (3:58).
Summary:
"A journey of love, through the songs of the early 17th-century composers who took inspiration from the myth of Orpheus--the greatest singer of all time"--Container.
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