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Il gondoliere Veneziano: A musical voyage through Venice - baritone Holger Falk evokes the musical world of the 18th century gondolier in this imaginative disc
[…] Holger Falk and Nuovo Aspetto have combed these archives, and put together a selection of 12 anonymous canzoni da battello and they perform them alongside songs and arias by Domenico Cerutti, Pierto Auletta, Johann Simon Mayr, and Andre Campra inspired by canzoni da battello. And of course, no disc on 18th century Venice would be complete without Vivaldi, so we get three concerto movements. Linking it all are sound compositions by Merzouga (Eva Popplein and Janko Hanushevsky) based on field-recordings made in modern day Venice, so that the disc really does feel like wandering through the Venetian streets and canals. And we start with Tasso! Falk sings a haunting unaccompanied song, setting the words of the great 16th century poet, inspired by Giuseppe Tartini's Sonata XVII in D minor for solo violin, 'Aria del Tasso'. Holger Falk & Nuovo Aspetto in Il gondoliere Veneziano at the […]
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The first Canadian kapellmeister at the Vienna Opera?
Janko Kastelic was appointed Kapellmeister of the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle at the Vienna State Opera on May 1. His job involves rehearsing the chorus and orchestra, also known as the Vienna Philharmonic. He tells us he’s the first Canadian in the job. Could well be. (Any Aussies got there first?)
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