The Monteverdi Trilogy? 2017 marked the 450th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi one of the founders of opera and hailed in his day as 'the creator of modern music'. Monteverdi transformed vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony into an entirely new genre that expressed powerful feelings and emotions within a gripping narrative. This set brings together Monteverdi's three surviving operas: the splendorous L'Orfeo and, from later in his life, Il ritorno

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The marvel of what a single instrument can attain plays an integral role in all these pieces

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This 72-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his singles on the Bluebird