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2022-04-22 19:29:35
Entitled "Opera in Musica, the new release features volinist Fabio Biondi and members of his Europa Galante ensemble — violinist Andrea Rognoni, violist Stefano Marcocchi, and cellist Alessandro Andriani. Carlo Monza’s (1680-1739) string quartets include operatic form and evocative subtitles, and could easily be mistaken for the youthful works of Mozart. Unsurprisingly, around the time of composition, 14-year-old […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-10-07 06:30:31
Con arte e maestria - Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque
Con arte e maestria - Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque, Oliver Webber, Steven Devine, Monteverdi String Band In Focus; Resonus Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 November 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A dazzling yet intelligent and engaging exploration of the Italian virtuoso art of ornamentation in the early BaroqueWhen the Milanese violinist Francesco Rognoni captioned his piece Io son ferito (from the second volume of his Selva di varii passaggi) 'Modo di passeggiar con arte e mestria' - ' manner of ornamenting with art and mastery' he used a phrase which is still used today 'con arte e maestria' to denote excellence and consummate craftsmanship in creative fields.On this Monteverdi String Band In Focus disc from Resonus Classics, two members of the Monteverdi String Band, Oliver Webber (violin) and Steven Devine (organ and harpsichord) return the phrase to its original use and explore the […]
2021-07-21 06:43:35
Encounters: York Early Music Festival with Tudor motets, Elizabethan viol music, baroque cantatas and the madrigal re-imagined
[…] Renaissance madrigal in its various forms as each generation discovered the genre anew. There was Monteverdi's Cruda amarilli alongside a setting of the same text by Johann Nauwach, a student of Heinrich Schütz; singer Giovanni Battista Bovicelli's ornamentations on a madrigal by Cipriani de Rore followed by Webber's own ornamentations on another De Rore madrigal emulating Bovicelli; music from Monteverdi's Il ballo dell'Ingrate; Webber's ornamentations of a madrigal by Palestrina exploring the style of Francesco Rognoni, and finally, a sequence from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. A key component of the programme was the selection of contemporary readings, some remarkably pointed, which gave a flavour of the way musicians thought about, and fought about, the madrigal. Soprano Hannah Ely sang some of the madrigals, whereas others were performed instrumentally. The result was a fascinating series of highlights of quite how flexible the form could be, and how later composers could build on […]
2021-02-14 11:15:20
A Life On-Line: New beginnings at the Academy of Ancient Music, the dying embers of Romanticism, fairytales in Scotland and a children's jukebox
[…] explorations of ornamentation in early violin playing. Webber introduced the music and explained what we were hearing, with a series of solo violin ricercars as palate cleansers. What we actually heard was the result of the coming together of multiple composers. There would be the composer of the underlying music and then the composer/performer responsible for creating the elaborate ornamentation which overlay the original. Webber gave us music which focused on four composer violinists Riccardo Rognoni (1550-1620), Girolamo dalla Casa (died 1601), Giovanni Battista Bovicelli (late 16th century), and Francesco Rognoni (early 17th century, died after 1626), sometimes playing music that they had ornamented directly and sometimes in the style of, using their writings to create modern versions. Fascinating and full of information, luckily there is going to be recording. [BREMF@Home] Over at Opera North there was the delighful Great Opera North Challenge, an entertaining and at times challenging University […]
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