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Austrian opera singer
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Rupert Ignaz Mayr - Sacri Concentus - Antiphonae
Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646-1712)Sacri Concentus - Antiphonae [1681]Gunar Letzbor - violinEnsemble Ars Antiqua AustriaRecorded November 2018Label: Challenge Classics CC72828Download 1fichier pixel workupload (16-44)Download 1fichier pixel (SACD-iso)
2023-12-24 05:00:00
Mozart: Missa Solemnis & Mayr: Te Deum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Missa solemnis in C major, KV Anh C 1.20Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845) Te Deum in D major (1805)Franz Hauk, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra(Modern Instruments...sigh!)Naxos 8.570926 (2009)[Flac & Scans]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] 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 Bologne, chevalier de Saint-Georges, a prominent composer, violinist, and military officer from just before and during the French Revolution, who was born (on the island of Guadeloupe) to a French plantation owner and a woman enslaved to his wife and known […]
2023-12-08 08:53:00
An Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and a German find themselves on a desert island: Bampton Classical Opera explores Alcina's Island
Title page of the third edition of John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso, 1634The first edition was 1591Ludovico Ariosto's Italian epic poem, Orlando Furioso, was published in the mid-16th century but it caught the imaginations not just of a generation but of a whole sequence of generations. The poem is about war and love and the romantic ideal of chivalry. It mixes realism and fantasy, humour and tragedy, with a huge cast of memorable characters who would crop up in art, literature and music. Handel was writing operas based on the poem in the 1730s (Orlando, Ariodante, and Alcina), and composers were still mining it in the early 19th century (there are Simone Mayr and Ambroise Thomas' operas inspired by it).On an interesting side note, Sir John Harington who translated Orlando Furioso into English was a courtier at Queen Elizabeth I's court and the inventor of a pre-cursor of the flush […]
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