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These lists show the audio and visual recordings of the opera L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. The opera was first performed in Mantua in 1607, at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga, and is one of the earliest of all operas. The first recording of L'Orfeo was issued in 1939, a freely adapted version of Monteverdi's music edited by Giacomo Benvenuti, given by the orchestra of La Scala Milan conducted by Ferrucio Calusio. In 1949 the Berlin Radio Orchestra under Helmut Koch recorded the complete opera, on long-playing records (LPs). The advent of LP recordings was, as Harold Schonberg later wrote, an important factor in the postwar revival of interest in Renaissance and Baroque music, and from the mid-1950s recordings of L'Orfeo have been issued on many labels. Koch's landmark version was reissued in 1962, when it was compared unfavourably with others that had by then been issued. The 1969 recording by Nicholas Harnoncourt and the Vienna Concentus Musicus, using Harnoncourt's edition based on period instruments, was praised for "making Monteverdi's music sound something like the way he imagined". In 1981 Siegfried Heinrich, with the Early Music Studio of the Hesse Chamber Orchestra, recorded a version which re-created the original Striggio libretto ending, adding music from Monteverdi's 1616 ballet Tirsi e Clori for the Bacchante scenes. Among more recent recordings, that of Emmanuelle Haïm has been praised for its dramatic effect. The 21st century has seen the issue of an increasing number of recordings on DVD and Blu-ray.

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1. Fortune, "The rediscovery of Orfeo" p. 93
2. "Continental Record Issues". Gramophone. London: Haymarket. June 1944. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
3. ^ "Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Milan 1939 - Calusio". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
4. ^ "On-line catalogue entry WLCD0060 Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Calusio". Crotchet.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
5. Fortune, "The rediscovery of Orfeo" p. 109
6. ^ "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Koch". Gramophone. November 1962. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
7. ^ "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Harnoncourt". Gramophone. March 1970. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
8. ^ Whenham et al, pp. 203–05
9. ^ "34 recordings of L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi on file". Operadis. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
10. ^ "Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - list of recordings". Presto Classical. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
11. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Hindemith". Answers.com. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
12. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Wenzinger". Gramophone. December 1956. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
13. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Stokowski". Classical Net. 2007. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
14. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Corboz". Gramophone. December 1970. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
15. ^ Ringer, p. 311
16. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Heinrich". Gramophone. March 1982. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
17. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Medlam". Gramophone. April 1994. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
18. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Gardiner". Gramophone. December 1987. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
19. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Pickett". Gramophone. February 1993. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
20. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Jacobs". Gramophone. December 1995. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
21. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Garrido". Gramophone. October 1998. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
22. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Haïm". Gramophone. May 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
23. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Haim". Classics Today (Robert Levine). April 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
24. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Malgoire". Answers.com. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
25. "Review - Monteverdi operas - Vartolo". Fanfare. August 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
26. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Cavina". Classical Net. 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
27. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Alessandrini". Classics Today (Robert Levine). February 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
28. "MONTEVERDI Orfeo". Gramophone. June 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
29. Brian Robins, "Opera on CD: Orfeo, Monteverdi, Disc of the Month", Opera, December 2020, pp. 1484–1485.
30. Iain Fenlon, Review - Monteverdi - Orfeo - Toro, Gramophone, December 2020, pp. 94–95.
31. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Harnoncourt DVD" (in French). Forum Opera (Sophie Roughol). Retrieved 20 September 2010.
32. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Stubbs DVD". Music & Vision (Robert Anderson). January 2006. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
33. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Jacobs DVD". Gramophone. March 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
34. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Jacobs DVD". Classics Today (Robert Levine). March 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
35. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Savall DVD". Classical Net (Raymond Tuttle). 2003. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
36. "Review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - Malgoire DVD". Gramophone. November 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
37. "Opera review - Monteverdi - L'Orfeo - 13 May 2008 at Teatro Real". MusicWeb International (José Irurzun). May 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
38. La Scala, 2009, OCLC 740891644.
39. Caen, 2017, OCLC 1022157082.
40. David Vickers, Review of performance at Caen, 2017, Gramophone, December 2017, pp. 7 (Editor's Choice), 112–113 (review).

Sources

• Greenfield, Edward; et al. (1993). The Penguin Guide to Opera on Compact Discs. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-046957-5.
• Ringer, Mark (2006). Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi. Amadeus Press. ISBN 1-57467-110-3.
• Whenham, John (ed.): Fenlon, Iain; Sternfeld, F.W.; Fortune, Nigel; Rolland, Romain; Kerman, Joseph; Glover, Jane; Freeman, David (1986). Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521241489.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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