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Italian composer, singer and organist (1623-1669)
- pipe organ, voice
- tenor
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- composer, singer, conductor, organist, bandleader
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Recent Releases, No. 30 (CD reviews)
[…] I can think of no better place to start than with this superb new release, which is excellent in every way. Martin Fröst: Night Passages. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor K 32; Chick Corea: Children's Song No. 15; J.S. Bach: Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude; Henry Purcell: Music for a While (from Oedipus, Z. 583); Richard Rodgers: It Never Entered My Mind (from the musical Higher and Higher); Jean-Philippe Rameau: Air pour les Sauvages; Antonio Cesti: Intorno All' Idol Mio (from L'Orontea); Bach: 3-Part Sinfonia No. 5 in E-Flat Major BWV 791; Corea: Armando's Rhumba; Purcell: Hornpipe in E Minor; Handel: Menuet in G Minor; Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor K 1; Rameau: Musette Tendre en Rondeau; Alfvén: Vallflickans Dans; Bach: 3-Part Sinfonia No. 15 in B Minor BWV 801; Fröst: Prelude to Dorotea; Trad.: Polska From Dorotea; Rameau: Tambourin en Rondeau; Gordon Jenkins: Goodbye. Martin Fröst, clarinet; Sébastian […]
2022-01-31 08:03:51
Loving & pretending: Alessandro Stradella's opera Amare e fingere explores the 17th centuries fascination with Arcadia, love & dissimulation
[…] Rosalbo (who in reality is Prince Coraspe, heir to the throne of Egypt), loves and is loved by Clori, while Celia for her part is in love with Rosalbo, and Clori is in reality Despina, Artabano/Fileno's sister! Confusion ensues, add to this two lesser characters, Silvano, tutor to Despina, and the elderly Erinda who contribute comic scenes. The style of the opera is recognisably linked to those created by composers such as Cavalli (1602-1676) and Cesti (1625-1669). There is a small instrumental ensemble, two violins, gamba, cello and violone, plus theorbo, archlute, triple harp, harpsichord and organ, the arias can be almost song-like and there is a lot of recitative. With no overture, the action plunges straight in and the libretto flows freely, with the arias interrupting and extending the drama and there is still quite a lack of formality to the work (characters interrupt each other) which contrasts with […]
2020-09-21 10:14:40
A Life On-Line: Joyce DiDonato in the Ruhr, ORA Singers in the Turbine Hall, Dowland at Hatfield House
[…] became more dramatic yet always highly soulful. DiDonato met Kenyatta Hughes whilst he was incarcerated at Sing Sing Prison, and she commissioned the song directly from him. In one of the intervals of the concert there was a tri-partite discussion between DiDonato, Kenyatta Hughes and Sister Helen Prejean (who wrote the book Dead Man Walking on which Jake Heggie's opera was based). This was followed by another of the programme's striking leaps, back to Antonio Cesti's 1656 opera Orontea and a touching account of 'Intorno all'idol mio', and the final appearance of Il Pomo d'Oro in the programme. The juxtaposition of Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete' from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Edith Piaf's La vie en rose (written by Louiguy) might not seem obvious, but DiDonato had decided to return to Cherubino (a role she has not sung on stage for some time) by imagining the young man in […]
2020-04-17 23:00:00
Vocal Music - Nilsson - Von Stade - Tragicomedia - Moreschi - Lesne - Dominguez - Tourel
[…] log, scans O Lusitano Portuguese villacetes, cantigas and romances Gerard Lesne Circa 1500 Nancy Hadden Virgin 1992 flac, cue, log, scans Vaughan WilliamsSongsFive Mystical SongsOn Wendlock EdgeAnthony Rolfe Johnson tenorSimon Keenlyside baritoneGraham Johnson pianoThe Duke QuartetCollins 1991flac, cue, log, scans Gerard Souzay Arias by Handel, Lully and Rameau (plus Monteverdi and Gluck) Raymond Leppard Serge Baudo Robert Corman Decca 1964 digital download, cover David DanielsSerenadeSongs by Beethoven, Schubert.Caldara, Gluck, Cesti, Lotti,Gounod, Vaughan Williams,Poulenc and PurcellMartin Katz pianoVirgin 2000flac, cue, log, scans Jennie Tourel mezzosoprano Leonard Bernstein piano Songs by Schumann, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov. Duparc, Debussy, Satie, Liszt, Poulenc, Offenbach Sony 1974 digital download, cover George London Songs by Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, Frederick Loewe and Jerome Kern (plus Wagner scenes) The Roland Shaw Orchestra Hans Knappertsbusch Wiener Philharmoniker (Wagner) Decca 1957 (1958 […]
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