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2019-01-30 08:46:29
1769: A year in music
[…] and the Mozartists' 1769: a year in music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, on Tuesday 29 September 2018 for the fifth year of their Mozart 250 project. The orchestra was joined by soprano Chiara Skerath and baritone James Newby to perform Mozart's Symphony from Cassation in G major K.63, two airs from Thomas Arne's An Ode upon Dedicating a Building to Shakespeare, Mozart's aria Cara, se le mie pene, arias from Pasiello's Don Chisciotte della Mancia, Haydn's Le pescatrici, CPE Bach's Die Israeliten in der Wuste and Gluck's Aristeo, the first movement of Leopold Mozart's Symphony in G major 'Neue Lambach' and Haydn's Symphony No. 48 in C major 'Maria Theresia'. We started with the symphony which Mozart extracted from his Cassation in G major. A cassation was a type of serenade, and Mozart re-used four of the movements to create a symphony. First a crisp and perky 'Allegro' […]
2013-01-30 22:47:28
Veni, vidi, Vinci!
[…] from 1722. Unfortunately this spirited performance is out of print and available only in expensive used copies . Sadly, the label OPUS 111 is now defunct along with its superb series I Tesori di Napoli, but Florio remains devoted to Vinci, and Dynamic has released his recording of a 1725 opera seria, La Rosmira fedele (called here La Partenope). An adaptation of a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia for a 1699 opera by Luigi Mancia, Partenope derives from the myth of the founding of Naples. This libretto quickly became popular and was set by many composers even including a version by Manuel de Zumaya staged in Mexico in the early 18th century. In 1722 Domenico Sarro composed his for Naples where it was a great success. When Vinci was invited to compose an opera for Venice in 1725, possibly at the suggestion of Faustina Bordoni who had already sung […]
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