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CALDARA / BONPORTI / HANDEL / BIBER / ZIANI / MUFFAT
The Habsburg Garden of Eden, Music by Caldara, Bonporti, Handel, Biber, Ziani and Muffat Ensemble Arava [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] The Habsburg Empire was a unique melting pot of cultural currents at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Similar to the French court, the emperors in Vienna sought to distinguish themselves through music. In contrast to... |
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BOCCHERINI
Complete Piano Quintets Ensemble Claviere [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Although these light-hearted and melodious works are rather late they have the same delightful tone of the chamber music he had written thirty years earlier. The composer later arranged some of his piano quintets for guitar quintet. |
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BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Complete Harpsichord Concertos [2 CDs] Ensemble Conserto Musico, Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord/director) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] Baldassare Galuppi was born on the Italian island of Burano in 1706, and died in Venice in 1785. His life was an extremely eventful and productive one for the son of a humble barber and violinist in the village band. After his father gave him his... |
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LELIO COLISTA
Colista: Sinfonie a tre Ensemble Giardino di Delizie [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Lelio Colista was born in Rome in 1629. Raised as a choirboy the child prodigy took Rome by storm, the "Orpheus of the city of Rome" played the guitar, lute, theorbo and harp, as well as being a dancer in the staged performances at the famous Palazzo... |
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FOERSTER / JARZEBSKI / ZIELENSKI / MIELCZEWSKI / SZARZINSKI
Gems of the Polish Baroque Ensemble Giardino di Delizie, Ewa Anna Augustynowicz [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] This new recording presents Polish composers from the Baroque, in whose works influences from their Italian contemporaries can be found. |
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GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Sacred and Secular Music Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Dominique Vellard [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'A very fine recording that serves more importantly to enhance Machaut's genius in these sympathetic and often beautiful accounts.' Gramophone |
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LAWES / DOWLAND / BYRD / PLAYFORD
New Old Albion: Music around the Harp Consorts of William Lawes Ensemble Il Caleidoscopio [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] The setting of the programme of this CD is the court of King Charles II. This "Merry Monarch" restores the rich cultural life at courst, by anstalling his "Private Musick", an ensemble with the privilege to entertain the King with music, in the... |
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GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Paisiello: 6 Flute Quartets Op. 23 Ensemble Il Demetrio, Gabriele Formenti (flute), Elisa Bestetti (violin), Maurizio Schiavo (viola), Antonio Papetti (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] As far as we can tell Paisiello's flute quartets were written in Naples in 1800, as were Cimarosa's more or less at the same time. They were likely composed with dilettante amateur players in mind: a commercial audience that was rapidly increasing at... |
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MARIO CASTELNNOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Chamber Music Ensemble Italiano / Mauro Tortorelli (violin), Massimo Macrì (cello), Pierluigi Bernard (clarinet), Angela Meluso (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Chamber music of Mediterranean lyricism and Latin harmonies, including a world-premiere recording. Not least thanks to a growing catalogue of albums on Brilliant Classics, the multi-faceted work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1970) is... |
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ANTONIO CALDARA
Caldara: Missa Dolorosa Ensemble La Silva, Nanneke Schaap [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] Antonio Caldara (1670‐1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Venice he was a chorister in the famous San Marco, where Legrenzi was his teacher. He soon spread his wings across Europe and held several important posts in Mantua, the Spanish... |
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MONTEVERDI
Vespro della Beata Vergine Ensemble San Felice [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] |
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MONTEVERDI / GABRIELI
Monteverdi & Gabrieli: Easter Celebration at St. Mark's in Venice 1600 Ensemble San Felice, Federico Bardazzi, Coro Ensemble Capriccio Armonico, Gianni Mini [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] This recording presents a reconstruction of the Easter Celebration at St. Mark's, Venice, around 1600. The Proprium Mass (the part of the mass which is related to the liturgical year) is from the beautiful Gradulae Giunta (Venice, 1572), the Missa... |
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LAURENZI
Laurenzi: La Finta Savia, Arias Ensemble Sezione Aurea, Filippo Pantieri [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] This new recording presents a selection of the most beautiful arias from La finta savia written for Venice in 1643 by Filiberto Laurenzi (1620-1651), a composer from Bertinoro. Laurenzi worked between Rome and the most renowned courts of Italy and... |
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GIACOMO CARISSIMI
Carissimi - Oratorios Ensemble Seicentonovecento, Flavio Colusso [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2013 ] Giacomo Carissimi may not exactly be a household name, but during his time he was one of the most respected musicians in Europe. |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA BASSANI
Sinfonie Op 5 Ensemble StilModerno [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music for The House of a Gentleman Ensemble Trictilla [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] The programme of this CD conjures up the salon of a sixteenth-century Italian mansion, in which the master of the house is entertaining his guests to the "gentle" (that is noble, gracious,courteous) art of music making. |
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TELEMANN
Recorder sonatas & trios Ensemble Tripla Concordia [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] Period instrument performances. Tripla Concordia was established in 1991, and takes its name from a collection of music by Matthew Locke and colleagues published in 1677. They specialise in music from the 16th and 17th centuries, and work with... |
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JUAN VASQUEZ
Vásquez: Vocal Music Ensemble Vandalia [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Little is known about the life of Spanish composer Juan Vásquez, fl. 16th century. A skilled and successful composer, he was in the service of the King of Spain. His compositions are mainly secular, in the form of polyphonic madrigals and... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Plaintif: Doleful Music of the French Grand Siècle Erik Bosgraaf (recorder) / Cordevento [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] An intriguing concept album by Cordevento, featuring a selection of intense, sorrowful French instrumental music from the late 17th to early 18th centuries. |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: The Double Concertos with Recorder Erik Bosgraaf (recorder & direction) / Ensemble Cordevento [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] This recording contains the double concertos with recorder: for two recorders or in combination with traverso, bassoon or viola da gamba. |