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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history. Born in Cremona, where he undertook his first musical studies and compositions, Monteverdi developed his career first at the court of Mantua and then until his death in the Republic of Venice where he was maestro di cappella at the basilica of San Marco. His surviving letters give insight into the life of a professional musician in Italy of the period, including problems of income, patronage and politics. Much of Monteverdi's output, including many stage works, has been lost. His surviving music includes nine books of madrigals, large-scale religious works, such as his Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610, and three complete operas. His opera L'Orfeo is the earliest of the genre still widely performed; towards the end of his life he wrote works for Venice, including Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea. From Wikipedia (

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Madrigals, Book V: Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Rossana Bertini, Claudio Cavina, Sandro Naglia, Giuseppe Maletto, Daniele Carnovich, Claudio Monteverdi, and Giovanni Battista Guarini
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Act III: "Possente spirto"
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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Madrigals, Book VI: Lamento d'Arianna: No. 1., Lasciatemi morire
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Anna Simboli, Gabriella Martellacci, Raffaele Giordani, Luca Dordolo, Sergio Foresti, Claudio Monteverdi, and Ottavio Rinuccini
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Prologo: Ritornello - Dal mio Permesso amato
English Baroque Soloists
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, SV 318, Prologue: Toccata
English Baroque Soloists

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Live in Venice

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Sweet Ayres

2026
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Orfeo son io

2025
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine

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Humori - Carnival and Lent: The Theatre of the Humours

2025
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Natale veneziano

2025
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

2026
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Primavera!. A musical Bouquet by Susie Napper

2025
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Madrigals

2026
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata vergine

2025

Singles & EPs

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Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 5, Pulchra es

Single • 2026
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Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 9: Si dolce è il tormento (Perf. on Sheng, Viola & Double Bass)

Single • 2025
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Monteverdi: Scherzi musicali, SV 246-251: VI. Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti, SV 251

Single • 2025
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Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum

Single • 2026
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Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali: Quel sguardo sdegnosetto, SV 247

Single • 2025
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Monteverdi: Sì dolce è'l tormento

Single • 2025
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Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 1, Deus in adiutorium meum intende

Single • 2026
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Palestrina: Panis angelicus

Single • 2025
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VIRTUOOS | Stefano Bruno & Friends | AVROTROS

EP • 2026
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Purcell: Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in A Minor: II. Allemande

Single • 2025

Videos

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...Cantate Domino...

Jeshua • 1.3K views
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Claudio Monteverdi | Adoramus te, Christe [á 6; Voces8]

Andrea Scalia - Early Music • 17K views
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Le Poeme Harmonique – Claudio Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa

Mary Martirosyan • 14K views
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Claudio Monteverdi - "Pur ti miro" (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

Les Arts Florissants • 680K views
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Monteverdi - "Si dolce è'l tormento" - Accordone

Ablacsia • 585K views
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Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea "Pur ti miro" | Sonya Yoncheva, Kate Lindsay

harmonia mundi music • 327K views
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C.Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna , oh di soavi accenti (N.Rial - P.Jaroussky) (L'arpeggiata Ensemble)

Liszt31 • 1.9M views
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Monteverdi - Lamento della Ninfa (Lib. 8)

Тахонов Иван • 378K views
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Monteverdi - Le Couronnement de Poppée - Pur ti miro

Mesdour - Musique au Collège • 29K views
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monteverdi pur ti miro

PeriodinstrumentfaN • 715K views

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Basically Baroque

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