Customer Reviews

La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a remarkable recording with a pulsing life to it that is so rare to hear on a recording. It's as if one is listening to a live concert! The singing is absolutely fantastic, in all senses of the word, and the instrumental band is so inventive and full of life and colors. What an amazing group of performers! How I would love to hear them do more together. And from one singer to others: Marco, Lucilla and Alfio are all "the real deal"...fabulous, natural singers!

This is the second disc I have purchased by L'Arpeggiata - a wonderfully alive and rhythmically coherent band using ancient instruments ( or copies). The focus of this disc - La Tarantella - is about a dance which has arisen in several Mediterranean countries around the myth that a spider's deadly bite can only be cured by dance. The musical examples chosen to illustrate this theme contain both rustic and classical songs set to some exquisite lyrics sung with passion and feeling. The sound quality being of SACD origin is not as spacious in the stereo sense as the first disc I purchased by L'Arpeggiata - 'Stefano Landi - Homo fugit velut umbra' on Alpha 020, but is very good in its own right.La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae

Salut Salut j'adore ce CD j'ai vu le film Tous les soleils et ce film en est plus ou moins la BO.
Ai-je atteint les 20 mots minimum?

I am as grateful to Christina Pluhar for this introduction to Marco Beasley and Lucilla Galeazzi as I was to Paul Simon for Ladysmith Black Mombasa and Los Lobos. Beasley and Galeazzi are great singers.

I also like this lively, inventive combination of "antique" music and "folk" music. It works just as well on L'Arpeggiata's recordings of Monteverdi and Landi.

In the past six months I have purchased everything I could find recorded by L'Arpeggiata, Marco Beasley and Lucilla Galeazzi. I would recommend them all -- especially, Los Impossibles.