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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 […]
2020-10-20 12:00:00
Giuseppe Pennisi listens to the seventeenth century 'L'Empio Punito' by Alessandro Melani. '... a real discovery for opera lovers who have not experienced a live performance.'
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Faces of classical music
2019-12-21 03:00:00
The best new classical albums: December 2019
[…] his Leipzig period, but there is no definitive proof that he wrote them during this time. What is fairly sure is that they were performed in Collegium Musicum concerts at Zimmermann's coffee house in Leipzig.Concerto Italiano and their leader Rinaldo Alessandrini are among the most respected names in historically informed performance Baroque music. In their very extensive discography are numerous Vivaldi recordings, but much that is well off the beaten track, such as Bononcini and Melani. Here they are on well-trodden ground in the four works by JS Bach, but straying off the path with two of his second cousins, Johann Bernhard and Johann Ludwig. I have only one other recording by them, a set of Vivaldi concertos, to which I haven't listened for a while, as my go-to artists in Vivaldi are Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi.Alessandrini and his band are renowned for brisk tempos and energetic readings, which […]
2019-10-05 12:00:00
Giuseppe Pennisi writes about a performance of 'L'empio punito' by Alessandro Melani
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