Giuseppe Maria Orlandini News
Italian composer (1676–1760)
- opera
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- composer, chapelmaster, impresario, bandleader
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2020-05-24 10:09:42
A Life On-Line: Der Freischütz and Arabella in Vienna, Orphée et Eurydice in Munich, and Nicky Spence in London
This week we begin and end with tenors; first tenor Jorge Navarro Colorado who with Opera Settecento and Leo Duarte shared a pre-lockdown video, a lovely account of 'Amor deh lasciami' from Handel's pasticcio, Elpidia - in fact an aria by Orlandini [YouTube, embedded above]. I've managed to miss Jorge's Handel performances at the Göttingen Handel Festival and do look forward to being able to hear him live in the UK soon. Willingdon House Music is a group of four musicians, Max Mausen (I reviewed Max's debut CD back in 2015), Flavia Hirte, Nicola Barbagli, and Ellen Bundy, living together, who make music regularly on Facebook with delightful programmes ranging from Bach to Bartok to folk-music. Violinist Tasmin Little was on BBC Radio 4 playing Harold Arlen's Somewhere over the rainbow, but only got to play a few notes, so she and her […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-12-28 12:00:00
The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2019
[…] on: "I took it as a sort of personal mission to finally do something with him. Though Scarlatti generally lacks a firm place in the repertoire hes not heard very often and is almost never the mainstay of a recital hes one of those milestones that every pianist must turn to".Source: amazon.com Facce d'amore – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Giovanni Antonio Boretti, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, George Frideric Handel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Nicola Matteis, Giovanni Maria Orlandini, Luca Antonio Predieri, Alessandro ScarlattiJakub Józef Orliński, countertenorIl pomo d'OroConductor: Maxim EmelyanchevRecorded at Villa San Fermo, Lonigo, Italy, on March 15-21, 2019Released on November 8, 2019 by Erato/Warner ClassicsFacce d'amore, "Faces of love" follows Jakub Józef Orliński's first solo album, Anima Sacra, which moved Gramophone magazine to announce that "This is a voice with a big future", and The Sunday Times, having extolled the "the unearthly beauty of Orliński's tone, his pearly coloratura and fabulous breath […]
2019-12-15 15:54:15
[…] matinee idol looks with a voice of quite astonishing, almost unearthly beauty, coolly sensual in tone, evenly produced throughout a wide range, and supported by well-nigh exemplary technique. His programme, linked to his latest album, Facce d’Amore, consisted of 17th- and 18th-century arias, familiar or otherwise, about the nature of love and the vagaries of desire, opening with Endymion’s rapt contemplation of lunar Diana from Cavalli’s La Calisto, and closing with a big showpiece from Orlandini’s Nerone, all swirling coloratura and capped by a spectacular cadenza. Finché Salvo è l’Amor Suo from Predieri’s Scipione Il Giovane, one of the evening’s many high points, sounded exquisite with its slowly unfolding, long breathed lines. Occasionally, his consonants slipped, in a quest, one suspects, for evenness. More pertinently, the balance sometimes came adrift in the first half, with the usually excellent Il Pomo d’Oro turning up the volume more than was perhaps necessary. […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-11-24 09:11:00
The best new classical albums: November 2019
Recording of the MonthFacce d'amore – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Giovanni Antonio Boretti, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, George Frideric Handel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Nicola Matteis, Giovanni Maria Orlandini, Luca Antonio Predieri, Alessandro ScarlattiJakub Józef Orliński, countertenorIl pomo d'OroConductor: Maxim EmelyanchevRecorded at Villa San Fermo, Lonigo, Italy, on March 15-21, 2019Released on November 8, 2019 by Erato/Warner ClassicsFacce d'amore, "Faces of love" follows Jakub Józef Orliński's first solo album, Anima Sacra, which moved Gramophone magazine to announce that "This is a voice with a big future", and The Sunday Times, having extolled the "the unearthly beauty of Orliński's tone, his pearly coloratura and fabulous breath control", to say, "He's only 28, but this is a special voice to look out for". It brings a switch from the sacred to the personal and passionate. As the Polish-born, New York-trained countertenor says, the programme – which includes eight world premiere recordings – comprises "operatic arias that tell […]
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