As Robert Hollingsworth tweeted yesterday, RIP Nigel Rogers - you showed us the way.
His pioneering recordings of Monteverdi's Orfeo and Vespers, both directed by Jürgen Jürgens, appeared in the early 1970s, and showed us how those early baroque ornamented vocal lines could be made to sound effortlessly natural. Later that decade, and in the 80s, he made many more recordings of similar repertoire, often in Andrew Parrott's group, which still stand up with the best available.
Later repertoire, as well: the first recording of Die Schöne Müllerin with period piano (Dick Burnett on a very fine Conrad Graf)l I heard them doing it live when I was a music student in the 70s - a wonderful concert.
His pioneering recordings of Monteverdi's Orfeo and Vespers, both directed by Jürgen Jürgens, appeared in the early 1970s, and showed us how those early baroque ornamented vocal lines could be made to sound effortlessly natural. Later that decade, and in the 80s, he made many more recordings of similar repertoire, often in Andrew Parrott's group, which still stand up with the best available.
Later repertoire, as well: the first recording of Die Schöne Müllerin with period piano (Dick Burnett on a very fine Conrad Graf)l I heard them doing it live when I was a music student in the 70s - a wonderful concert.
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