for R395.00 Sell on bidorbuy Daily Deals Stores PromotionsDigital resources for Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato include program notes. in the Poetry category for sale in Cape Town (ID:578294076) Buy L`Allegro and Il Penseroso by MILTON, John. Escucha America de Betty Wand & George Chakiris, con 21,757 shazams.L`Allegro and Il Penseroso by MILTON, John. “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” are in constant dialogue, and there are several theories about how they are connected. On another level, Steve McCurry’s intense and penetrating portrait on the cover makes the issue doubly attractive.Il penseroso The speaker in “Il Penseroso (which means the “pensive man” in Italian) argues for a life dedicated to study, while the speaker in “L’Allegro” (which means the “joyful man”) argues for living a life full of pleasure. We can always rely upon him to blow away cobwebs and instil an invigorating freshness of spirit as the exuberant duet in BWV 134 alluringly demonstrates. In this respect Gardiner’s well-attested sense of theatre is second to none. While Masaaki Suzuki and Ton Koopman keep faith with the ardent spirit of the text, neither makes as much of the resourcefully structured contrasts that Bach built in to avoid monotony. Nevertheless, the voices are commendably agile and disciplined and I can say without hesitation that this is the most enlivening performance around at the moment. Gardiner gives an intense and heartfelt account of it, yet, to my ears, just oversteps the bounds of contextual propriety in the declamation, almost hysterical at one point of verse four of the hymn. The powerfully expressive Lutheran hymn ‘Christ lag in Todes Banden’ (BWV 4) provided Bach with the text of one of his earliest cantatas, a masterly composite picture, throughout in E minor of death and resurrection. Gardiner previously recorded two of the Cantatas, BWV 6 and 66, on the Archiv label in 2000, but in the studio (and with different soloists) the result, as we might expect, was less spontaneous and less engaging than the present live recordings. These cantatas were performed and recorded at Eisenach, Bach’s birthplace in April 2000: included are pieces penned for Easter Day (BWV 4 and 31), Easter Monday (BWV 6 and 66) and Easter Tuesday (BWV 134 and 145). I particularly admire the fervour with which Gardiner imbues the music, his lively responses to the many instances of word-painting and his intuitive feeling for dance rhythms. John Eliot Gardiner’s strongest qualities are evident in these performances of six Easter cantatas made in his on-going Bach Cantata Pilgrimage series. PERFORMER: Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

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