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Vivaldi: 12 concertos op. 3 l’estro armónico (CD Review)
[…] 356; Concerto No. 7 for 4 Violins in F Major, Op. 3, RV 567; Concerto No. 8 for 2 Violins in A Minor, Op. 3, RV 522; Bach: Concerto for solo organ after RV 522 in A Minor, BWV 593; Vivaldi: Concerto No. 9 for Violin in D Major, Op. 3, RV 230; Bach: Concerto for Solo Harpsichord after RV 230 in D Major, BWV 972. Rinaldo Alessandrini, director and solo harpsichord, Concerto Italiano; Lorenzo Ghielmi, organ; Andrea Buccarella, Salvatore Carchiolo, Ignazio Schifani, harpsichords. Naïve OP 7367.By Karl W. NehringThis is one of those releases that grabs your attention right from the very start and never really lets go. It opens with Vivaldi’s Concerto No. 1 in D Major for 4 Violins, RV 549, which features an opening allegro movement that takes no prisoners. But before getting too far into specifics, it might be best to talk a bit about […]
2019-11-23 09:32:52
Making the violin speak: I chat to Elisa Citterio, violinist and music director of Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik
[…] style by the Italian composer Guido Morini. It fitted the ensemble so well that many of the audience did not realise it was a contemporary piece. She goes on to say, that they are keen to explore a variety of contemporary music styles and not just modern composers writing in the Baroque style. So far this season they have premiered works by Andrew Balfour, Guido Morini and James Rolfe, with premieres by Cecilia Livingston, Vittorio Ghielmi, Gregoire Jeay to come. Tafelmusik and Elisa Citterio in rehearsal (Photo Jeff Higgins) She did not apply for the post of music director with Tafelmusik but received an invitation from them. When she looked at the responsibilities of the role it seemed, at first, rather daunting, requiring her to combine planning, conducting and acting as a soloist for some concerts (during her first year she played the Beethoven Violin […]
2018-11-28 08:34:54
Viol music
Byrd, Purcell, Ferrabosco, Parsons, Gibbons, and Lawes; students from the Royal College of Music and the Salzburg Mozarteum; Royal College of Music Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 November 2018 Mainly English consorts and fantasies for viols in the culmination of the Royal College of Music's Viol FestivalThe Royal College of Music has been holding the RCM International Festival of Viols and for the grand finale in the college's Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall on Tuesday 27 November 2018, 10 young players came together to perform a programme of fantasies and consort works by Byrd, Purcell, Ferrabosco, Parsons, Gibbons, and Lawes. The players were from the RCM and from the Salzburg Mozarteum, nine viol players in all coming together in a variety of configurations, Isabel Esain, Yusuf Lahham, Luke Challinor, Salome Gasselin, Hannah Kilian, Corinna Metz, Vittorio Ghielmi, Christoph Urbanetz, and Sarah Small, with Claire Williams on organ for […]
2018-08-10 06:47:00
Shamans of sound
[…] Senior industry executives are among those clamoring for a new £250 million 'sonically perfect' London concert hall. Yet the same executives sing the praises of streaming services such as Spotify. Industry leader Spotify uses the OGG Vorbis file format which is smaller and even more compressed than lo-fi MP3. My recent post Recorded sound quality is the Cinderella of our digital age received a very surprising number of page hits. In it I said Vittorio Ghielmi's 'Gypsy Baroque' album is a welcome reminder that the art of great recorded sound is not entirely dead. However there is very clear evidence that although not dead, great recorded sound is in the process of being killed by streaming. Back in 2009 and before the hegemony of lossy streamed audio, Jonathan Berger, a music professor and composer at Stanford University, carried out research with student requiring them to rank sound quality from sources […]
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