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Italian composer of the Classical era (1740-1816)
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2024-03-13 04:00:00
Paisiello: Pulcinella vendicato (Antonio Florio, Capella de'turchini)
Giovanni Paisiello (1741-1816)Pulcinella vendicato; farsa per musica in un atto (1770)Antonio Florio, Capella de'turchini(Period Instruments)Opus 111 OPS 30-205 (2001)Another in a series of Paisiello's obscure operas recorded on period instruments while his three major operas (Il barbieri di Siviglia, Nina & La Molinare) languish unrecorded.[Flac & Scans]
2024-02-21 18:49:00
Le nozze di Figaro, Deutsche Oper, 20 February 2024
[…] trouble with the censor; or, milder still, does one gain further insight from having done so? Here, rightly, the question was left open. No one was compelled to have extra knowledge, but we had both a sense of difference from the corresponding play that suggested purpose rather than mere accident, and one could certainly read aspects of the characters to suggest their lives had developed from the first instalment (even from Rossini after the fact; Paisiello too, I think). Thus when confrontations between Figaro and the Count were less studies in contemporary masculinity than will often, quite reasonably the case, one was led to think of their history together—and, as Friedrich noted in a fascinating programme interview, the fact that the Count is not an idiot, indeed most likely he is a man of the Enlightenment himself, entrusted as he will shortly be to represent his country as the ambassador […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] hammering at anvils, two centuries before Wagner, though of course the percussion here is more modest than the actual anvils in the Ring Cycle), and Rameau’s Zoroastre, featuring astonishingly accomplished performances by Jodie Devos, Véronique Gens (again!), Gwendoline Blondeel, Mathias Vidal, and Tassis Christoyannis. Classic era: From the mid to late 1700s, we got a remarkable collection of arias by “Maestrino” (young master) Mozart, sung enchantingly by Marie-Ève Munger, with an early-instrument ensemble from Montreal; Paisiello’s L’amor vendicato (1786), which demands remarkable virtuosity from one of the two sopranos and from a solo oboist (though this particular oboist is only so-so); and L’Accademia di musica (1799), a richly humorous comic opera by Johann Simon (Giovanni Simone) Mayr, the Bavarian-born composer who would later become Donizetti’s guide and major composition teacher. Of special interest from this era is the long-awaited world-premiere recording of the one opera that completely survives by Joseph […]
2023-08-20 04:00:00
Italian Arias of the 18th Century (Mónika González, Fabio Pirona, Savaria Baroque Orchestra)
Italian Arias by: Niccolò Jommelli, Tommaso Traetta, Leonardo Leo, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini & Baldasare GaluppiMónika González, SopranoFabio Pirona, Savaria Baroque Orchestra(Period Instruments)Hungaroton HCD 32253-2(See back cover for complete track listing) [Flac & Scans]
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