Julie Comparini

Contralto. Early and new music. Interdisciplinary theater projects.

News: New CD recordings

This spring marks the release of two new CDs featuring Julie Comparini singing music from Baroque and Elizabethan theaters. Both are available immediately, include rarely heard gems or new takes on popular repertoire and make a great addition to your classical or early music CD collection. Enjoy!

Some Strange Felicity

Ensemble Sospiri Ardenti:

Julie Comparini, mezzo-soprano
Ellen Delahanty, soprano and recorder
Jurgen Debruyn, lute and archlute
Geert Van Gele, recorder and harpsichord

Kattenberg Recordings KA005

More information — Buy this CD

Some Strange Felicity, Sospiri Ardenti's most popular concert program, presents musical scenes from two of Shakespeare's best-loved plays on historical instruments and with spoken texts. The CD includes selections from the 1674 adaptation of The Tempest with music by Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell and others, as well as Elizabethan settings of songs and instrumental music from Twelfth Night by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and their contemporaries. The use of text passages from the original theater versions allows the music to be experienced in context and lends dramatic flair.

Orpheus, oder die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe

By Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767). Mields/Volpert/Hofbauer/Zenker/Kraus/Mayr/Gerber/Comparini, soloists L'Orfeo Barockorchester Michi Gaigg, conductor. Sony Music/deutsche harmonia mundi.

"The ancient legend of Orpheus, son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope, as preserved in Ovid's Metamorphoses, can justly be termed the mother of all opera plots..." — Telemann's brilliant and colorful adaptation of the Orpheus myth is a rare jewel from Hamburg's 18th-century Gänsemarkt theater.

Available on amazon.com - jpc.de - or at a CD store near you.
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