Saturday, 3 November 2018

Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Richard Hickox) [3CDs]


Virgin Classics 1990 | EAC LOG FLAC+CUE | 3CDs + booklet | 926MB


Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

 

L'incoronazione di Poppea,
dramma per musica in tre atti e prologo, SV 308


performed by

Arleen Auger, soprano (Poppea)

Della Jones, mezzo-soprano (Nerone)

Linda Hirst, mezzo-soprano (Ottavia)

Gregory Reinhart, bass (Seneca)

James Bowman, countertenor (Ottone)

Sarah Leonard, soprano (Drusilla)

Adrian Thompson, tenor (Arnalta)

Catherine Denley, contralto (Nutrice)

and other soloists


City of London Baroque Sinfonia

(on period instruments)

Richard Hickox, dir.


Recorded: Christ Church Spitalfields, City of London, 7/1988
TT: 194'30''