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BOLOGNA / CASERTA / LANINI / PADOVA / PERUGIA / etc
Metamorfosi Trecento La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Myth, Sallust tells us, is the relation of 'things that never happened, but always are'. Ever since the fourteenth century, music has drunk deep from the source of myths. When composers were not dealing with sacred history, with the great morality... |
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J. S. BACH
Hebenstreit's Bach La Gioia Armonica; Margit Übellacker; Jürgen Banholzer [ Ramée / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Johann Sebastian Bach was certainly familiar with the Pantaleon - a large hammered dulcimer with a wide range and full chromatic scale. Bach's contemporary Pantaleon Hebenstreit had developed the instrument. |
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La Grande Chapelle
Delizie di Posillipo, Música para el virrey de Nápoles [ Lauda / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] On 1 March 1620, the festa a ballo Delizie di Posillipo was performed at the Royal Palace of Naples to celebrate the recovery of King Philip III. Promoted by the Viceroy Pedro Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, the spectacle featured splendid stage designs by... |
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CARLOS PATINO
Patiño: Música sacra para la corte La Grande Chapelle; Albert Recasens [ Lauda / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] For over thirty years Carlos Patiño served Philip IV as Choirmaster in the Spanish Royal Chapel. The Spanish monarch was not the only one who held him in great esteem, for João IV of Portugal admired him as well and put together a collection of his... |
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TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
Victoria: Officium defunctorum La Grande Chapelle, Albert Recasens, Schola Antiqua, Juan Carlos Asensio [ Lauda / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] The Officium defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in 1605, is one of the masterworks of the musical Renaissance, which still moves us with its austerity and expressive power. |
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SIGISMUND NEUKOMM
Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Alpha / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including... |
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La Guitar Quartet
Evening In Granada [ Delos / CD ] |
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La Jose, Vasco Hernandez, Los Alhama, Thomas Koch, Grupo Macarena, Domingo Patricio
Flamenco Passion [ ARC Music / CD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] Flamenco, hot and fiery, as well as mellow and tender, in a variety of styles and rhythms. |
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DAVID LANG
Amelia (A film by Adouard Lock) BLU-RAY La La La Human Steps / Soloists / Njo Kong Kie (piano and musical direction) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "Amelia is nothing but dance, brilliantly shot, relentlessly in your face, astonishingly fast. The lesson of Amelia... is to dance this hard, this fast, this gloriously while you still can" Los Angeles Times |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Cantata for Christmas Eve and Sinfonias La Magnifica Communita [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Oct/2008 ] A contemporary of Buxtehude and Lully Antonio Stradella (1644-1682) remained in Italy his entire life. He benefited from important patrons in Rome, including Christina of Sweden. Here in the mid-seventeenth century, with the theatres being closed for... |
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BOCCHERINI
Boccherini Edition (37 CDs of Symphonies, Chamber Music and the Stabat Mater) La Magnifica Communita / Ensemble Claviere / Petersen Quartet / New Berlin Chamber Orchestra and others [ Brilliant Classics / 37 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2012 ] One of the most distinguished figures of the Classical period, the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (1743--1805) was revered by 18th-century listeners and musicians for the charm, elegance and lyrical beauty of his music. Although his legacy has... |
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BOCCHERINI
String Quintets - Volume 9 La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] This is brilliantly written music by a masterful composer at the peak of his creative talent. |
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BOCCHERINI
String Quintets - Volume 1 La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "These performers 'La Magnifica Comunita' add to the interest by taking great care with dynamics and shading - some of which will not be in the original score - and with a wider variety of articulation even using harmonics when a pianissimo effect... |
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BOCCHERINI
String Quintets Volume 7 La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was an exact contemporary of Josef Haydn, and knew his Austrian colleague well. He also knew the younger Mozart. |
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PHILIPPE DE VITRY
Clemens Deus Artifex La Main Harmonique / Frederic Betous [ Ligia Digital / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
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JULIEN JOUBERT
Joubert: Nous n'irons pas à l'Opéra / Aimez-vous Bach ? La Maîtrise de Radio France, Sofi Jeannin [ Formations Musicales De Radio France / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] |
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ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera recorded in 2012) La Monnaie, Brussels / Barbara Hannigan (Lulu), Natascha Petrinsky, Tom Randle, Dietrich Henschel / Paul Daniel (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "It's a comparatively rare occurrence to encounter a performance on the opera stage that has such a magnetic visual and physical impact as Barbara Hannigan's portrayal of Berg's tragic heroine." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Opera) |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra; Ben Glassberg / Sally Matthews; Julian Hubbard; Carole Wilson; Giselle Allen; Ed Lyon; Henri de Beauffort; Katharina Bie [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Nothing is as it appears in the old English manor house of Bly. A new governess takes up her post and discovers that the children who are her new charges are under the influence of the ghosts of the previous governess and her depraved lover. |
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WAGNER
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2011) La Monnaie de Munt / Andrew Richards, Anna Larsson, Jan-Hendrik Rooterin, Thomas Johannes Maye / Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] "Richards and Larsson make memorable role debuts, the tenor offering unfailingly fresh, firm and powerful tone...[Larsson's] singing in the seduction has true allure." (International Record Review) |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka, Op. 114 (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY La Monnaie Opera / Myrtò Papatanasiu, Pavel Černoch, Annalena Persson, Willard White / Ádám Fischer (cond) [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The cast throw themselves into [the production] with admirable energy, but it's simply too calculated and posturing...musically this isn't at all bad. Adam Fischer's conducting is smooth, rich and idiomatic, his principals good." (BBC Music) |