3760195735893

Barbara Strozzi. Virtuosissima Sirena

Laura Catrani; Accademia dell'Annunciata; Riccardo Doni

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Format: CD

Cat No: A589

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Release Date:  30 January 2026

Label:  Outhere / Arcana

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3760195735893

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Barbara Strozzi. Virtuosissima Sirena

  • Description

    Barbara Strozzi, a Venetian singer and composer who lived between 1619 and 1677, stands out as a rare jewel in the musical landscape of the Italian Seicento. The adoptive (and perhaps natural) daughter of Giulio Strozzi, a man of letters belonging to the illustrious Florentine family, she rejected the alternative prospects of matrimony or life in a convent in order to devote herself entirely to her one true passion: that for music. Moreover, she aimed to assert herself not merely as a performer, but also as a composer, thereby transgressing the strict rules of the period. Over the course of twenty years she published over a hundred and twenty cantatas and other works for solo voice, a number unequalled by any of her contemporaries. In her most significant works she combines the absolute originality of her formal structures with an extraordinarily intense and exuberant poetics of the "affects". In these respects her vocal writing is comparable only with that of the century's greatest Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi.

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