Roberta Invernizzi, Bizzarrie Armoniche - Donne Barocche: Women Composers from the Baroque Period (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 356 Mb | Total time: 68:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30500 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 356 Mb | Total time: 68:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30500 | Recorded: 2001
The Donne Barocche, or Baroque Women, featured here are not singers or operatic characters, but composers, and the album, originally released on the Opus 111 label in 2001 and rescued for reissue by Naïve broke new ground when it first appeared. All of the music comes from the last third of the 17th century and the first decade of the 18th. The names of composer/singer Barbara Strozzi and French keyboardist Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre were known to enthusiasts of the history of women's music and were beginning to receive mainstream performances, but the other four composers represented were new to all but scholars, and the big news was a program of music as varied in concept and affect as any by the male composers of the period.
