Lamento Baroque Alpha

Lamento

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AJ 0626

Lamento

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA626

Running Time: 69:04

Release Date: September 2020
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Baroque

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In the post-Renaissance period, the lamento established a place for itself in both vocal and instrumental music. This grief-stricken utterance in the face of death – one’s own imminent demise, that of a loved one, a lamentation that may be either sacred or secular – conveys a sentiment of melancholy that verges on the inexpressible...

Café Zimmermann invites its longstanding partner, the countertenor Damien Guillon, to perform a programme of lamenti from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which gives equal prominence to instruments and voice on a journey through the German-speaking lands. In the past few seasons the countertenor Damien Guillon has established himself as one of the leading interpreters of Baroque music. Widely admired for his musicality and his luminous and exceptionally pure vocal timbre, he is regularly invited to perform as a soloist under the direction of celebrated conductors.

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***** Coup de Cœur

Jeremie Bigorie - Classica magazine (France) - February 2021

Critics’ Choice 2020

“… Zimmermann’s exquisitely moving presentation of elegiac music for string ensemble by the likes of Biber, Schmeizer and JC Bach. Such programmes are far from uncommon, but this one, with added pangs from the countertenor of Damien Guillon, gives the music an accumulative expressive eloquence that has lodged in my consciousness.”

Lindsay Kemp – Gramophone magazine – December 2020

Nominee in Baroque Vocal Category

International Classical Music Awards 2021

“The performances have the intensity this repertoire requires to have its full impact.”

Johan van Veen – MusicWeb-International.com – 30 October 2020

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