FERRARI; BENEDETTO

Ferrari: Songs/Jaroussky

David Vernier

Is it possible that a recorded performance could be too much of a good thing? Well, such an assessment probably would be unfair to a

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Ferrari Madrigals CPO C

David Vernier

Benedetto Ferrari is hardly known at all today. Small wonder since he was more important as a librettist in Monteverdi’s Venice than as a composer,

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