Monteverdi, Claudio - L'Orfeo - SATBGbSb - score

for 6 recorders (SATBGbSb) or recorder orchestra and narrator, arranged by Dagmar Scherschmidt, text: Barbara Metzner-Lucas. Monteverdi's opera is a musical masterpiece that has lost none of its fascination even today. Orfeo's journey to the underworld and back to the upper world in Arcadia, which Monteverdi accompanies with various timbres and his own instruments, can be impressively portrayed by a high recorder choir or low recorders. In this arrangement, twenty movements from the opera, which are essential to the story, have been arranged for recorders on alternating instruments and narrator* according to the libretto by Alessandro Striggio (1573-1630). The opera, which lasts around three hours in the original, has been condensed to the essentials and dramatised through the combination of music and text. Individual movements can also be played as an independent suite without a narrator. However, the full effect of the arrangement can only be realised through the alternation of music and text, which can be vividly enhanced by light installations, for example. Performance time (music and text): approx. 50 minutes.

Score and text booklet (in german and english language)
Edition Walhall

Parts availible: EW933