Distribution :

William Christie

• musical direction

Hugh Cutting

• countertenor

Carlo Vistoli

• countertenor

Comment :

Pursuing the ‘new practice’ introduced by Monteverdi, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century composers in the Italian tradition explored myriad human emotions, all the more eagerly because lovers generally come in pairs! From Monteverdi to Handel and Vivaldi, Carlo Vistoli and Hugh Cutting vie with each other in virtuosity throughout a programme tailor-made for them by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants.

Comment :

Works by Claudio Monteverdi, Agostino Steffani, Antonio Caldara, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Bononcini, Antonio Vivaldi and Giovanni Battista Fontana