A couple of posts on the early Baroque period in Italy.
Starring Monteverdi, Frescobaldi and, next week, Carissimi.

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (c.1580-1651)
Libro Quarto di intavolatura di Chitarrone
Rolf Lislevand
theorbo and colascione
with Eduardo Eguez, Brian Feehan, Guido Morini, Lorenzo Duftschmid, Pedro Estevan
Astrée/Auvidis E 8515 (1993)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger /
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (c.1580-1651)
Selection from:
Libro Quarto di intavolatura di Chitarrone
(some pieces also form Libro Primo and Libro Terzo)
Libro Primo di intavolatura per Lauto
Francesco Romano
chitarrone and archlute
Amadeus AM 271-2 (2012)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Selection from:
Libro Quarto di intavolatura di Chitarrone
(some pieces also form Libro Primo and Libro Terzo)
Libro Primo di intavolatura per Lauto
Francesco Romano
chitarrone and archlute
Amadeus AM 271-2 (2012)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c.1560-1627)
Lamentazioni e Responsori per la Settimana Santa
(Feria V; Feria VI; Sabbato Sancto)
Collegium Vocale "Nova Ars Cantandi"
Giovanni Acciai
Stradivarius ORF004 (1996)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Leone Leoni (c.1560-1627)
Missa "Ab Austro veniet"
Mottetti
Mottetti
La Stagione Armonica
Sergio Balestracci
Amadeus AM 193/1-2 (2005)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
"Organi storici della Toscana. Historical Organs of Tuscany"
Giuseppe Guami (1540-1611), Cristoforo Malvezzi (1547-1599), Jacopo Peri (1581-1633), Alamanno Aiolli (?-1590), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643);plus some local composers: Giuseppe Gherardeschi (1759-1815), Giovanni Maria Casini (1656-1719), Giovan Battista Orandini (XVIII century)
Roberto Menichetti organ
Organs in Arezzo (1534-36), Fucecchio (1598/1626), Pistoia (1755), Lucca (1687/1820/1860/1912)
La Bottega Discantica 12 (1996)
La Bottega Discantica 12 (1996)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
"Cembalowerke"
Works for Harpsichord
Works for Harpsichord
Bob van Asperen harpsichord
Teldec 8.43774 (1987). Recorded 1970?
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Girolamo Frescobaldi
"Toccatas et danses"
Works for Harpsichord
Works for Harpsichord
Scott Ross harpsichord
EMI CDC 7 49844 2 (1989)
[flac, cue, log, scans]

"Opere vocali e strumentali"
Vocal and instrumental works
Gloria Banditelli mezzosoprano
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni
Amadeus AM 092-2 (1997)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Carlo Gesualdo (c.1561-1613)
Quinto libro dei madrigali
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
L'oiseau-lyre/Decca 410 128-2 (1991). Recorded 1983
[flac, cue, log, scans]

Conterto: Settimo Libro dei madrigali
Ensemble "Concerto"
Cappella Mauriziana
Roberto Gini
Tactus. Recorded 1987-88.
Rip of the reissue on Brilliant Classics
[flac, cue, log, covers]
Claudio Monteverdi
Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi
from Book VIII
Taverner Consort and Players
Andrew Parrott
EMI CDC 7 54333 2 (1992)
[flac, cue, log, scans]

Missa In illo tempore (1610)
Mass for four voices (1650)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Hyperion CDH55145 (2003). Recorded 1986
[flac, cue, log, scans]

"Vespro solenne di San Lorenzo" *
Coro della Radio Svizzera
Concerto Palatino
Diego Fasolis
The Classic Voice (2001). Recorded live 1997
[flac, cue, log, scans]
* This setting has been made for the concert recorded here, selecting pieces by Monteverdi from Selva morale e spirituale (1640) and from three collections assembled by others.