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Berlioz: Les Troyens (Sir Colin Davis)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Les Troyens Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis (conductor) 2014, Flac Files
2019-04-29 05:00:00
A. Scarlatti & Contemporaries
If all these chamber vocal works don't suit you I would like to bring your attention to the sacred music of A. Steffani and G.A. Perti.Antonio Lotti (1666-1740)"La vita caduca": MadrigalsIl Complesso BaroccoAlan CurtisVirgin Classics 7243 5 45221 2 3 (1997)[flac, cue, log, scans] Download link Agostino Steffani (1654-1728)Stabat MaterMottettiOrchestral suite from the opera Henrico LeoneCoro della Radio SvizzeraI BarocchistiRené ClemencicAmadeus AM 155-2 (2002)[flac, cue, log, scans] Download link Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)Cantate da cameraGloria Banditelli contralto, Cristina Miatello sopranoEnsemble AuroraTactus (1989). Rip of a reissue[flac, cue, log, covers] Download link"Se con stille frequenti"Agostino SteffaniAntonio LottiGiovanni BononciniDuetti da cameraSara Mingardo, Francesca Biliotti, Loriana Castellano, Lisa Castrignanò, Giorgia Cinciripi, Lea Desandre, Silvia Frigato, Lucia NapoliCenacolo MusicaleArcana A 424 (2016)[flac, cue, log, scans] Download link Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)Cantate da cameraCristina Miatello soprano, Gloria Banditelli contraltoEnsemble AuroraTactus TC 661905 (1999). Recorded 1989[flac, cue, log, covers] Download link Alessandro ScarlattiCantata natalizia "Abramo, il tuo sembiante"Alessandro Stradella ConsortEsteban VelardiNuova […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-17 12:11:00
The best new classical albums: February 2019
[…] placed beside the exhilarating performance of Mazeppa that forms its companion piece. Throughout there's a real sense of excitement at the discovery and restoration of a fine work by one of the most inventive of composers. You end up wishing that Liszt had somehow incorporated operatic composition into his extraordinary career, and wondering what the course of musical history might have been if he had.Source: Tim Ashley (Gramophone) Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.3 in D minorSara Mingardo, contraltoWomen's choir of Schola HeidelbergYoung singers of the Kölner DomGürzenich-Orchester KölnConductor: François-Xavier RothRecorded October 2018, Kölner PhilharmonieReleased on February 8, 2019 by Harmonia mundiFrom the powerful opening statement salvo by 8 French horns, to the incisive declamations by the solo principal trombonist, to the seismic tremors induced by the ranks of percussion instruments in the first movement, to the graceful interplay between woodwinds and strings in the second, to the beautifully alluring and deceptive (turns […]
2019-01-28 02:20:00
Luminous Mahler Symphony no 3 : François-Xavier Roth, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
[…] finale of energetic affirmation, not defeat.From brooding near silence (basses and celli), Sara Mingado, the alto, emerges, singing a text from Neitzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra: "O Mensch! Gib Acht!", her voice illuminated by motifs on violin and clarinet, which here sound non-western, which is quite approrpiate : this is no mainstream "Christian" symphony. Something is gestating. The misterioso of the fourth movement gives way to the joyous fifth movement, significantly scored for youthful, fresh-sounding voices. Mingardo is now haloed by the Women's choir of Schola Heidelbergand the youth choir of the Kölner Dom. The words "Bimm bamm" supposedly evoke the sound of bells marking celebration.The forward thrust of the journey in the first movement is now drawing to resolution. In the final movement, marked "Ruhevoll", lines stretch, as if reaching into distance: strings now dominant, winds adding depth, brass responding. Exquisite playing from the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln : the refinement feeling […]
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