(soprano) (contralto)(bass) (soprano)
The Ambrosian Singers
Orpington Junior Singers The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello) with Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
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Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Desmond Dupr é (viola da gamba)
Julian Bream (lute)
Produced by Denis Stevens
II Ballodell'Ingrate was composed by Monteverdi for the festivities at Mantua in June 1608. It is one of the few ballets in the French style to have been preserved in complete form, and owes its conception as well as its text to Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist and francophile.