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Loving & pretending: Alessandro Stradella's opera Amare e fingere explores the 17th centuries fascination with Arcadia, love & dissimulation
Alessandro Stradella: Amare e fingere; Mauro Borgioni, Paola Valentina Molinari, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Luca Cervoni, Chiara Brunello, Silvia Frigato, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea de Carlo; Arcana Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 31 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A relatively recent discovery, one of Stradella's earlier operas on disc for the first time in an engagingly vivid performanceThe composer Alessandro Stradella is perhaps still best known for his dissolute life than his compositions, though his output stretched to around 300 works in a variety of genres. When it comes to his operas, if they were considered at all it was the ones he wrote later in his career for Genoa. But thanks to recent scholarship we know that Stradella's engagement with opera dates back to earlier in his career. During the 1670s he worked in Rome (where he had been brought up) until having to flee the city […]
2020-04-21 07:48:26
Le Banquet Céleste's new recording of Alessandro Stradella's late 17th century oratorio San Giovanni Battista reveals a form in transition, looking back to Cavalli & forward to High Baroque
[…] instruments as much as the voices, so that there are two sinfonias which resemble concerto grossos, and during the main body of the work the way the voices and instruments interact is very striking.This isn't the work's first recording on disc by a long chalk, with Alessandro de Marchi and the Accademia Montis Regalis on Hyperion, and Mark Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre on Erato, whilst it is worth exploring Andrea De Carlo and Ensemble Mare Nostrum recordings of some Stradella's other oratorios on Arcana.This engaging account of the work has the advantage of being recorded after a series of live performances, so that we get a real sense of the drama of the work along with feeling for Stradella's transitional style, moving away from Monteverdi and Cavalli but not yet the High Baroque. Well worth exploring.Alessandro Stradella (1643-1682) - San Giovanni BattistaPaul-Antoine Benos-Djian (countertenor) - Giovanni BattistaAlicia Amo […]
2017-07-04 01:00:00
Traditional and ancient music from Latin America Ensemble Mare Nostrum Nora Tabbush, voice Andrea De Carlo, viol and cond. Quito Gato, Josué Meléndez Peláez, Lincoln Almada, Annamaria Gentile 1 CD (2012), 48’22. Flac, Cue, log, Pdf booklet.
2014-11-16 01:07:03
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