Tiranno (CD) – Kate Lindsey

Composers: George Frideric Handel, Bartolomeo Monari, Alessandro Scarlatti, Claudio Monteverdi
Artists: Kate Lindsey, Nardus Williams, Andrew Staples, Arcangelo
Conductor: Jonathan Cohen
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Alpha
CD Release Date: April 7, 2021

Corruption. Betrayal. Persecution. Tyranny.

These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen to the figure of Nero. Scarlatti, Handel and Monteverdi wrote works focusing on this tragic protagonist and his entourage, including his mother Agrippina and his wives (Poppaea and Octavia).

Interpreted with incredible intensity by the American mezzo-soprano, the program features world premiere recordings of two cantatas: Alessandro Scarlatti’s La morte di Nerone (c.1690) and Bartolomeo Monari’s La Poppea (1685). Tenor Andrew Staples and soprano Nardus Williams join Kate Lindsey for duets from L’incoronazione di Poppea, including the sensual “Pur ti miro.”

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