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2022-07-05 18:25:36
For his engagements with orchestras around Europe, Jader Bignamini will be managed by Antonio Orlando and Terry Shew at Askonas Holt. Born in Crema, Italy, Bignamini began learning the clarinet at age 9. He later attended the Piacenza Music Conservatory and took up conducting as well as an interest in jazz music. Bignamini has […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-05-15 08:42:34
Care pupille: The London Concert 1746 - Samuel Mariño in soprano arias by Handel and Gluck
[…] intended for Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, in which mature Gluckian lyricism alternates with vivid bravura, clearly the Archduchess (who would go on to be Duchess of Parma and end up ruling the duchy in her own right) was a talent singer. There are a number of these one-act operas written for the royal family, in 2015 Les Bougies Baroques performed Gluck's Il Parnaso confuso [see my review]. Il Tigrane was premiered in Crema, near Milan in 1743, both it and La Sofonisba suffer in that not all the music from the opera survives. Mariño sings an aria for the character Cleopatra, 'Care pupille amate', a character recently incarnated on disc by soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian on DELOS [see my review] CD booklet has a fine article giving the background to the arias, including brief plot summaries, but there are no texts which is […]
2020-04-07 06:24:54
The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia
[…] also hear the overture to Hasse's opera, the only purely orchestra work on the disc. It starts fast, with prominent horn parts, and develops into a substantial piece with slower galant sections. As well as the arias, Bayrakdarian gives us the recitatives as well providing important connective tissue.Gluck's Il Tigrane seems to be his fourth opera, with a libretto by Carlo Goldoni based on that previously used by Vivaldi and Hasse, which was performed in Crema (near Cremona) in 1743, eleven arias and a duet survive from the opera. It is very much Gluck in pre-Reform mode. We hear 'Nero tubo il ciel imbruna' from Act I, again from the conclusion to that act after Cleopatra's argument with Tigrane, full of busy moments and dramatically angular lines; it is a long aria, and we can clearly hear Gluck's mature style hovering in the background. Then comes 'Priva del caro bene', […]
2019-10-07 19:03:04
27-year-old Finnish bassist Maria Krykov and 22-year-old Portuguese bassist José Trigo have this week been awarded joint-2nd prize at the 2019 Bottesini International Double Bass Competition – in Crema, Italy. No 1st prize was awarded at this year’s competition. 17-year-old Hwang Junbin from South Korea was awarded 3rd prize. A student of Matthew McDonald at the Hochschule für […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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