by English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner · Deutsche Grammophon Classics · CD · EAN 0028941925022
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«L'Orfeo» is the opera by Claudio Monteverdi conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists, released in 1987 as a double CD.
L'Orfeo, Monteverdi's opera, recreates the myth of Orpheus and his descent into the underworld to recover Eurydice. Sung in Italian, it is conducted by Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir; the cast includes Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Lynne Dawson and Anne Sofie von Otter. It includes «Possente spirto» and «Toccata».
Studio recording made in December 1985 at Abbey Road Studios in London, in digital stereo with an approximate duration of 105 minutes.
For fans of baroque opera and recordings by John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists.
