Musique : L'Arperggiata reprend Monterverdi version "Jazzy"

[duktak17]

Awesome stuff! Those guys are crazy in the good sense of the word

[Francois94360]

L'Arperggiata est meravigliosa, elle visite le temps,

Christina pose un baiser joyeux sur les lèvres de Claudio,

Et ce vieil amoureux lui est reconnaissant !

[AuroraOnVenice]

christina pluhar è un genio e David con il cornetto si diverte un sacco :D

[blagodatov]

O, Doron, Christina, Philippe - this is brilliant!!! I admire Monteverdi - and you!

[fioredigioia]

WOW. I love this. It sounds completely unlike anything I've ever heard before--in a very good way!

[drugo1983]

beh, pe divertisse se po' fa tutto, però i pastiche a livello artistico non mi convincono affatto

[JoelvanLennep]

WHAAAT??! Ridiculous.

[RoseBlackWarlock]

LOVE the cornetto played in a jazzy way!!!

[UnderTheBamboooTree]

in the old days, improvisation was quite common, so it makes sense to make a jazzy version

(btw, also with baroque I tap my foot on the 2 and the 4, just like with jazz)

[crowisflying]

Was almost standing on my chair and dancing ;-))

[signingupiseasyd]

Beautiful, stylish, madness : )

[signingupiseasyd]

I love Philippe Jaroussky's version of this! : )

[emmeemmegi]

Semplicemente geniale!

[Musichiere]

STUPENDO

[JoelvanLennep]

Meretricious, and absolutely disgusting to real music lovers! Pluhar will do anything to be trendy and "accessible"; at heart, she's just a rock musician with henna hair and a big axe. Sting, despite his technical and musical ineptitude, at least tried to sing/play the actual music. Beyond disappointing! There otta be a law...

[9z1nmq]

I have The cd that this piece comes from what elegance

[riatosillevis]

Why all the reactions of horror? These are serious musicians, they've shown the whole concert through how serious they are and how well they can play and they just want to share an entertaining moment of fun. If the purists had had their way back then, then there would have been no baroque...just have a wee think about it.

[Fiordiligi2]

@riatosillevis  just saw them tonight in Amsterdam and it was amazing! and they only sang this as an encore (the first of three!!). just shows how timeless music is: aren't new interpretations welcome?

[riatosillevis]

@Fiordiligi2 I saw them too last night! Wasn't it fantastic! I've never heard two voices blend like those of Philippe and Nuria. They are a prefect match. I was also very impressed by the way the cornet became a third voice. A wonderful night to remember. This kind of early music is developing into a new music style. There is a slightly raw folky, rocky edge to it while at the same time the interpretations remain true to the music and it's timeless emotion.

[Fiordiligi2]

@riatosillevis Yes wasn't it? And i completely agree (also about the blending), we too recognised some folk/eastern european, perhaps even gipsy influences and i loved it. Glad you enjoyed it too.

[dolofonos]

@riatosillevis I'm not condemning the performance; but only your final statement. While it's true that the most conservative composers should have halted the progression of music if their word were law, the composers who defined the Baroque era were anything but impure or imprecise in their work.  This is self-evident not only in their music, but in their correspondence and treatises. Without perfection, there could have been no such music.

[gionfy]

Mi dispiace, ma trovo molto ridicolo. Peccato che musicisti così bravi possano immaginare una rielaborazione del genere. Spero sia un gioco, ma se lo è non viene bene messo in evidenza.

[viera77]

mmm, que mas decir, algo que no había escuchado...interesante lo que hacen

[VinciLit]

ah, right, it's jazzy :) It sounds really good :D

[VinciLit]

Is this jazz or sth?

[CowboyBebop444]

fantastic

[faberrimus]

QUE HORROR!!!!!

[reinadegrillos]

Esto lo hace Rolando y se lo comen vivooo!

Me ha encantado.

[StephenChin1]

17th Century Heavy Metal..!

[erre104]

They had simply made an interesting crossover between 2 improvised repertoires... and.. it works! This means that Monteverdi's music IS absolutely in the category of classics and the evidence that since baroque music is mostly improvised you can apply different kind of improvisation and it works. Anyway.. it is an interesting lab.

[erre104]

Dear Baroqueboy i'm afraid you should study how much improvisation is part of Baroque music, and this is the smart, astonishing and marvellous evidence of that. Great Philippe, great Arpeggiata and Christina.. Moreover not in every corner you find such a musicians able to play different repertoires... Anyway this is swing more than jazz... :-)

[parsifalmonsalvat]

this kind of baroque-pop crossover can be quite fun sometimes :) It is nice that there are many different versions avalable so everyone can find something they like, However I prefere the Venexiana approach more I still can enjoy this also when being in the mode for it. Good musicians!

[counterman69]

It's nice to try something new when you know the style, but... perhaps this would be the way to introduce Monteverdi to jazz audience. I would prefer my Monteverdi with fever tricks.

[Xstophoros]

Il faut desserrer le string les gars ! This is a fantastic idea, just because the music and the spirit of Monteverdi aren't just preserved, but sublimed !

[denskiansek]

poor baroqueboy - such narrow vision, such paucity of spirit!

[baroqueboy]

WRONG!  This is WRONG! OH SO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

[acoustic8y3]

@baroqueboy it is only wrong if you see it with narrow eyes.

[baroqueboy]

@acoustic8y3 I know. I was joking.  I thought it was amusing. :)