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2020-04-06 13:20:58
Claudio Merulo, 2020
[…] by Merulo: one for the organ, Toccata quinta del secondo tono, from Merulo’s First Book of Organ Toccatas (here). It’s performed by the organist Massimiliano Raschietti. Here’s a piece for the harpsichord, Ricercare primo. It’s performed by Marco Mencoboni. And finally, some music that is not for a keyboard instrument. Merulo wrote many motets and madrigals. Here’s a motet, Innocentes pro Christo, from his Libro Primus Sacrarum Cantionum. It’s performed by the Modus Ensemble, Mauro Marchetti conducting. The portrait, above, is by Annibale Caracci, renowned for his frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Caracci was born in Bologna, a city in Emilia-Romagna not far from Merulo’s Correggio.
2014-10-15 01:34:00
[…] a salvage operation led by pianist Manuel Massone: music of unknown Argentine composers born between 1820 and 1855, the "lost" generations between Esnaola and Williams. I heard no masterpieces but I enjoyed getting to know, e.g., a Romanza by Alfredo Napoleón, or three pieces by Francisco Hargreaves (author of the first Argentine opera, "La gatta bianca", unfortunately lost), especially the very brilliant Capriccio on the opera "Ruy Blas" by Marchetti. Habanera, waltz, tango, galop, triste, pericón... such were the scores. Best pianists: Massone and Facundo Miranda.For Buenos Aires Herald
2014-07-21 17:46:34
The curse of drink
Two operas both alike in dignity, set in dimly lit Renaissance towns ruled by seething, conspiratorial courts. Parties blaze, alleyway shadows threaten, half the characters are spies or bravos for the other half, plus a few on spec. Love is in short supply, usually twisted. What these folks need is a competent social worker with a dagger-proof vest and a cast-iron stomach. What they get is melody to live upon and die upon, melody as rich and various as the forms of pasta. This summer, Will Crutchfield’s annual Bel Canto program at the Caramoor estate in Katonah, New York, focused on the relationships between two of Victor Hugo’s musical grandchildren, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (1833, rev. 1840) and Verdi’s Rigoletto (1851). For those of us aware of such lovely but less familiar Hugo-derived scores as Pacini’s Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra, Mercadante’s Il Giuramento, Cui’s Angelo, Ponchielli’s Marion Delorme, Marchetti’s Ruy Blas and […]
2012-08-03 16:18:46
The Great Gagliano! Several years ago I was in London. And I arranged to try out some old violins at Sotheby’s Musical Instruments department. What fun that was! Because I had made the arrangements before I arrived, the folks at Sotheby’s allowed me to play several really old violins, and I just loved that experience. Last Saturday I was in Los Angeles. And it occurred to me that there are several fine instrument shops there, so again I arranged to try out several fiddles. This time I went to see Weisshaar Musical Instruments, and I had great fun again. I played five instruments made by the following Italian makers: Vincenzo D’aria Giovanni Grancino Enrico Marchetti Arturo Francassi , and lastly Joseph Gagliano Sound, violin selection, and violin playing are a very personal thing. For me, the last […]
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