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Celebrating 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists - Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge
Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge: Monteverdi, Cavalli, Boretti, Melani, Castrovillari; Randall Scotting, Jorge Navarro Colorado, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Signum ClassicsReviewed 3 November 2023A wonderful album that celebrates Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists in the 17th century, with music by Monteverdi and Cavalli, alongside modern-day premieres by the little-known composers Boretti, Melani, and Castrovillari During the 17th and 18th centuries, Venice had a reputation, particularly during the Carnival, where people could wander around masked and all sorts of activities could take place. Exciting things that would not be possible elsewhere. Tourists flocked, and entertainment for them stretched from the lucrative trade of prostitutes right through to the opera. It was fun for young heterosexual men, of course, women were far more available, but it was even bigger a draw for gay men.Thanks to disputes between the Venetian authorities and the church, there was greater […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-12-28 12:00:00
The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2019
[…] inspiring. He is the centre of my musical thought as regards music for keyboard instruments". He goes on: "I took it as a sort of personal mission to finally do something with him. Though Scarlatti generally lacks a firm place in the repertoire hes not heard very often and is almost never the mainstay of a recital hes one of those milestones that every pianist must turn to".Source: amazon.com Facce d'amore – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Giovanni Antonio Boretti, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, George Frideric Handel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Nicola Matteis, Giovanni Maria Orlandini, Luca Antonio Predieri, Alessandro ScarlattiJakub Józef Orliński, countertenorIl pomo d'OroConductor: Maxim EmelyanchevRecorded at Villa San Fermo, Lonigo, Italy, on March 15-21, 2019Released on November 8, 2019 by Erato/Warner ClassicsFacce d'amore, "Faces of love" follows Jakub Józef Orliński's first solo album, Anima Sacra, which moved Gramophone magazine to announce that "This is a voice with a big future", and The […]
2019-11-28 20:24:22
Facce d'Amore: Arias of Cavalli, Handel, Boretti; Jakub Józef Orliński, with Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo D'oro (Erato) Olga Neuwirth, ...miramondo multiplo..., Remnants of Songs, Masaot / Clocks without Hands; Ingo Metzmacher conducting the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, with Håkan...
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Faces of classical music
2019-11-24 09:11:00
The best new classical albums: November 2019
Recording of the MonthFacce d'amore – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Giovanni Antonio Boretti, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, George Frideric Handel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Nicola Matteis, Giovanni Maria Orlandini, Luca Antonio Predieri, Alessandro ScarlattiJakub Józef Orliński, countertenorIl pomo d'OroConductor: Maxim EmelyanchevRecorded at Villa San Fermo, Lonigo, Italy, on March 15-21, 2019Released on November 8, 2019 by Erato/Warner ClassicsFacce d'amore, "Faces of love" follows Jakub Józef Orliński's first solo album, Anima Sacra, which moved Gramophone magazine to announce that "This is a voice with a big future", and The Sunday Times, having extolled the "the unearthly beauty of Orliński's tone, his pearly coloratura and fabulous breath control", to say, "He's only 28, but this is a special voice to look out for". It brings a switch from the sacred to the personal and passionate. As the Polish-born, New York-trained countertenor says, the programme – which includes eight world premiere recordings – comprises "operatic arias that tell […]
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