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| | CONTINUO Magazine for early music, February 1998 CD Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | With almost no exceptions, the music is marvelous, centred on works by Monteverdi, Giaches de Wert, Biagio Marini, and Sigismondo DIndia, and include works by lesser-known composers such as Francesco Eredi, Francesco Fiamengo, and Giulio Santo Pietro de Negri. |
 | | The project derives from an entertainment of last summer called "Era la notte", after Antonio Cifras madrigal, given in the courtyard of the Steri Palace in Palermo. |
 | | Garridos seven singers, who take a variety of dramatic roles and sing in consort in the madrigals, are never less than good, often very good indeed, including a very fine low bass. |
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