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2021-11-30 15:24:36
City of angels
In spite of the fact that Rossini and his librettist Jacopo Ferretti removed all the magical elements from the story, therefore making it far easier to produce, there was more than enough enchantment in the singing, and intermittently in the production to enjoy.
2019-10-10 06:19:59
Will put a smile on your face: Vivaldi's L'estro armonico in new versions from Armoniosa
[…] variety of arrangements and transcriptions, notably those by JS Bach who made harpsichord versions of six of them whilst he was employed in Weimar (Bach would have been 26 when the set was published).In the spirit of the tradition of transcribing and arranging Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, the Italian ensemble Armoniosa recorded all of them (on the Reddress label, distributed by Sony) in transcriptions by Michele Barchi made for Armoniosa's line up, Michele Barchi (harpsichord), Daniele Ferretti (organ), Francesco Cerrato (violin), Stefano Cerrato (five-string cello), Marco Demaria (cello). One intriguing feature is that the ensemble play period instruments, at historic pitch (415 Hz, unequal temperament) and so give us a delightful taste of the sort of transcription and arrangement that Vivaldi's contemporaries might have done. This is a delightful disc, and the concertos are all played with imagination and verve by the players. Barchi's arrangements are very imaginative and we […]
2019-09-11 10:58:42
Herald PublicistFlorence is considered one of Europe's best artwork cities and makes for a civilised lengthy weekend Credit score: Gian Lorenzo Ferretti Pictures An.
2018-11-01 07:24:50
The Unknown Traveller
The Unknown Traveller, madrigals from Musica Transalpina, Ben Rowath A Short Walk of a Madman; The Fieri Consort; Fieri Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 29 October 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The Fieri Consort returns to Italian madrigals, but this time through an English lens, combined with Ben Rowarth's new e.e.cummings-inspired pieceThe Fieri Consort's first disc, released in 2017 [see my review] was a daring combination of Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna interleaved with a new sequence of pieces by Ben Rowarth, written specifically for the ensemble. For their new disc, The Unknown Traveller (release on the ensemble's own label), they continue combining Rowarth with 16th century Italian madrigals but this new disc puts an interesting slant on the whole genre. The first part of the disc consists of madrigals by Conversi, Ferretti, Monte, Palestrina, Faignient, Lasso, Ferrabosco and Byrd, followed by Ben Rowarth's four-movement Short Walk of a […]
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