Release Date: 11 March 2016
Label: Avie Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252232622
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Various Composers
Release Date: 11 March 2016
Label: Avie Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252232622
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Various Composers
Description
Pre-eminent New York-based early music ensemble TENET presents 'The Secret Lover', celebrating music by, for and about women paying tribute to the 17th century Concerto Delle Donne, a trio of extraordinarily gifted professional female singers who were renowned for their performances in the courts of the late Italian Renaissance.
Three of TENET's own leading ladies - sopranos Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, and mezzo-soprano Virginia Warnken Kelsey - honour the spirit of these pioneering women with a recording featuring solos and trios that weave a story thread to create a musical portrayal of three women and their complex emotional lives. As a 21st century tribute, TENET has commissioned a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, which they perform alongside music by Caccini, Rossi, Strozzi and others.
Personnel: Jolle Greenleaf, Molly Quinn (soprano), Virginia Warnken Kelsey (mezzo-soprano)
"Exuberant, subversive counterpoint...a rollicking, foot-tapping finale." - The New Yorker (on TENET's performance of The Secret Lover at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"This disc is a complete success." - Gramophone (on 'UNO + ONE')
Tracklisting
Theatro
Maxim Rysanov Evelyn Chang
Inon Barnatan
David Fruhwirth & Henri Sigfridsson
Andrew Maginley
Thomas Zehetmair
Slattery/Urquhart
Semyon Bychkov
David Darling
Various
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Tagliaferri/Sciddurlo
Swr So Baden Freiburg
Seung-Yeun Huh
Oxford Girls Choir/Skinner
Monks Of Solesmes