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Italian composer (1626–1690)
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Celebrating 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists - Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge
[…] Cavalli's last opera, Eliogabolo features a hero who dressed and acted as woman, though this was replaced at short notice by a version in which the notoriously dissolute Roman emperor repents in the final scene. Here, though, we do not hear from the title role but from Eliogabolo's successor, Alessandro lamenting the fickleness of love.There are instrumental items to puncture the programme of duets and arias, with items by Tarquino Merula, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Giovanni Legrenzi.As I discovered when I chatted to Randall Scotting last year, he is as much at home doing research in libraries as in the concert hall, and the programme concept, repertoire selections, performing editions, and English translations are all his.Randall Scotting, Jorge Navarro Colorado (Photo: Joel Benjamin)The programme engages on multiple levels. At the most basic, it is a wonderfully sung account of wonderful music. Both singers have a lovely flexibility and naturalness in the […]
2022-02-21 11:25:25
Early Moderns: the (very) first Viennese School; Quicksilver Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 February 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The American Baroque ensemble explores the inventive music written by local composers and visiting Italians for the Imperial Court in 17th century ViennaEarly Moderns: the (very) first Viennese School features the North American ensemble Quicksilver (Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, violins, directors, Greg Ingles, trombone, Dominic Teresi, dulcian, David Morris, viola da gamba, Avi Stein, harpsichord & organ and Charles Weaver, theorbo) in a programme of music by composers associates with 17th century Vienna, Johann Schmelzter, Giovanni Legrenzi, Johann Rosenmüller, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Johann Caspar Kerll, Johann Joseph Fux, Heinrich Biber, Giovanni Valentini and Antonio Bertali. Composers who, if they are known at all, are often simply names. In 1622, the Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II married Eleanora Gonazaga of Mantua, and she brought the music of Monteverdi and […]
2019-10-19 07:21:36
He discovered something new in himself in the music: Christophe Rousset on exploring 19th century French opera, and continuing his Lully cycle
Christophe Rousset The recent recording of Gounod's Faust on Palazzetto Bru Zane represents something of a new departure for Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, who are known for their performances of French Baroque repertoire. Whilst Christophe was in London recently, I was lucky enough to be able to meet up with him again to chat about Gounod and exploration of the 19th century repertoire, but also, of course, the French Baroque as Christophe's cycle of recordings of Lully's opera reaches Isis, as well his explorations of rarities such as operas by Salieri and Legrenzi. The idea of a recording of Gounod's Faust and exploring the earlier surviving versions of the opera (it had quite a complex genesis, see my review of Christophe's recent recording) came from Palazzetto Bru Zane. But Christophe and Les Talens Lyrique had already explored some of the 19th century repertoire thanks their Tragediennes […]
2019-04-20 18:51:05
Gods and monsters
Legrenzi married the quirky libretto to a score of transcendental beauty.
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