Monteverdi/ Venexiana/ Cavina - Selva Morale E SpirtualeThe present album is a reissue of a legendary recording by a legendary ensemble, La Venexiana. Recorded at the 2005 Semana de Musica Religiosa Festival in Cuenca, Spain, the ensemble's founding members (Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia and Daniele Carnovich) are to be heard in the company of a select group of instrumentalists and singers, all of them under the direction of Claudio Cavina, for a memorable journey through the pieces

in the continuous search for an intellectual

It also traverses a large tract of music history

and to artists I've looked up to since I was a teenager

Echoes of that approach can be heard throughout this album

and Chuck Welch

Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano)

Wagoners - The Wagoners Sing Folk Songs for Camp

A great pop record is like a great friend: an intimate confidante

Whether performing Handel's Semele with Harry Bicket and The English Concert or Stravinsky's Threni with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra

he found himself holding his guitar and allowing his fingers to play a few notes that just felt

Enjoyable and informative

His existence is paralleled with that of his long-unseen sister (Gena Rowlands)