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05 May 2012

Cantate da Camera


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Date CD: 19 Aug 1997 | Seon | 52:35



tracklist:


Nicola Porpora - Or Che Una Nube Ingrata
Antonio Caldara - Vicino a un rivoletto
George Frederick Handel - Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132



René Jacobs, Countertenor
Sigiswald Kuijken, Flute, Violin
Anner Bylsma, Cello
Gustav Leonhardt, Harpsichord


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04 May 2012

Boismortier: Chamber Music


Easy CD-DA | FLAC tracks | Covers | 356 Mb
Date CD: 4 Jun 2010 | Musicaphon | 60:27


tracklist:

Concerto Zampogna in C major
Sonata Op. 91/1
Sonata in A major, Op. 10 No. 2
Trio Sonata in D major, Op. 37 No. 3
Sonata in E minor, Op. 34 No. 3
Concerto in A major, Op. 38 No. 4
Suite for harpsichord in C minor, Op. 59 No. 1
Ballet de Village, Op. 52 No. 4

Manfred Harras (recorder)
Marianne Luthi (recorder)
Richard Gwilt (baroque violin)
Arno Jochem (viol)
Brian Franklin (viol)
Sally Fortino (harpsichord)

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03 May 2012

Baroque in Hanover - Court Music

Easy CD-DA | FLAC tracks | Covers | 313 Mb
Date CD: 2009 | Ars-Produktion | 66:20
During the 17th and 18th Century, the city of Hanover played an important role in the musical life of Germany. Music was performed at the Lutheran Church as well as at the Duke's court. Soon after its establishment in 1636, the court played host to many of the Era's most prominent musicians.
Even before Handel, many aspiring composers were attracted to the Hanover court. Between 1639 and 1641, Henrich Schütz stayed at Hanover. During the reign of the highly educated John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick – Calenberg from 1655 until 1679, a number of musicians were brought in from Italy and France. At the same time the court orchestra was significantly expanded. The long stay of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, the great mathematician and philosopher at Hanover provides further evidence of the extraordinary intellectual life at the court.
A sonata by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) completes this survey of northern german Baroque music. Telemann was one of the most prolific and most popular composers of his time; his stylistic inventions were often ground – braking. Altohough Telemann never held any position at the court in Hanover, he is known to have visited it regularly. The creative atmosphere at the court and Steffanis achievements in particular are said to have spurred Telemann's own creativity.
tracklist:
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)
1 Duetto IX „Conservate, raddopiate” HWV 185 (for soprano, alto and b.c.)
2-5 Cantata „Solitudini care, amata libertà” HWV 163 (for soprano and b.c.)
Charles Babell (ca. 1636 – 1716)
6-10 „8me Suite en c-moll” (for harpsichord solo)
Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728)
11 Duetto „Vuol il Ciel ch’io sia legato” (for soprano, alto and b.c.)
Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640 – 1716)
12-13 Songs from „Leucoleons Galamelite” (for alto and b.c.)
14 „Capriccio della Chiave A” (for organ solo)
15-16 Songs from „Leucoleons Galamelite” (for alto and b.c.)
15 Er widerräth der Rhodinis das Closter-Leben
16 Nacht-Lied
Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728)
17 Duetto „O care catene ch’il piede stringete” (for soprano, alto and b.c.)
Georg Philip Telemann (1681 – 1767)
18-22 Sonata e-moll (for viola da gamba and b.c.)
Antonio Sartorio (1630 – 1680)
23 Cantata „E' tiranna la speranza” (for soprano and b.c.)
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)
24-26 Duetto X „Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi” HWV 187 (for soprano, alto and b.c.)
Alla Polacca
Iwona Lesśniowska-Lubowicz – soprano
Paulina Kilarska – harpsichord, organ
Stanisław Gojny – theorbo, baroque guitar
guests:
Franz Vitzthum – countertenor
Petr Wagner – viola da gamba

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Philip Glass: Music in the Shape of a Square

Classical | EAC, FLACs, CUE, Log | 1 CD, Booklet | 427 MB
CD Date: June 4, 2002 | Stradivarius



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“On 30 June 1999, the ensemble Alter Ego performed a concert of works by Philip Glass at the Opera Paese Gallery in Rome, one of the most innovative musical venues in the city and where Alter Ego has played regularly since 1996. Glass himself was present at this performance which was a replica of his own famous debut concert at the New York Film-Makers Cinemateque in September 1968. Under the guidance of Pietro Fortuna, the artists of the Opera Paese Gallery faithfully reconstructed the geometric installations which Glass had originally called for at that first performance. And over thirty years later, the audience in Rome gave the concert the same positive, enthusiastic reception it had enjoyed in New York — to the extent that Glass himself was suprised, as indeed he was by the modernity and abstract nature of several of his early compositions which he had neither played nor heard since that time.”


Music by Philip Glass
Performed by Alter Ego


TRACKS:

1 Music in Similar Motion 12:38
2 Strung Out 14:28
3 Piece in the Shape of a Square 11:27
4 Gradus 10:19
5 Music in Contrary Motion 28:35
I'm beginning here to resurrect some of the works that "disappeared" from Avax or were "abandoned" from the original uploaders. There's not a real thought behind it, I'm just cleaning up my HDs and following the wind. What I downloaded long ago is flowing back. All credits go to the first uploader. Enjoy...

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02 May 2012

Handel: Germanico


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2 CD | Date CD: June 28, 2011 | Harmonia Mundi


Handel – True or False?

In autumn 2009 a photocopy of the manuscript was circulated in London, where a Bond Street jeweller helped to contact top experts in the field with the aim of soliciting an authentication. On behalf of whom? The mystery has been partially solved with an official notice that appeared on 18 May on the website of Sony Classical, convening a press conference on 6 June at La Scala Shop in Milan.

Meanwhile, a taste has been offered to the media through a password-protected portal that presents 12 audio-streamed excerpts, the libretto, and a booklet note by the discoverer Ottaviano Tenerani, whose ensemble “Il Rossignolo” and a vocal cast featuring top-notch specialists (Mingardo, Fagioli, Foresti) have already recorded a CD. Tenerani simultaneously announces his in-house edition of the score.

A secret operation and a skilful marketing ploy, nevertheless it does not convince everyone. Maestro Tenerani says of it: “We are dealing with a serenata for six voices, written certainly for a private occasion involving the House of Habsburg or one of its supporters. The work is on a large scale (45 numbers including sinfonia, arias and recitatives), complete in one act. The watermarks allow us to assert that its provenance is Venetian, between 1706 and 1709. It is possibly the first dramatic work Handel composed in Italy”.

The chronology of Handel’s Italian trip remains disputed, but its extent is assumed to be between 1706 and February 1710. The original sung text, on the other hand, unequivocally identifies the personality who is being celebrated: the Habsburg archduke Joseph, King of the Romans and future Emperor Joseph I, who is described as a handsome young prince with blue eyes and blond hair; these were from his mother, Eleonore Magdalene of Pfalz-Neuburg, whilst his brother and successor Charles VI was brown-haired and rather ugly like their father Leopold. The anonymous poet eruditely overlaps the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession and the narrative of Tacitus (Annals, II/14, 26 and 41) about the triumphant return of Germanicus to Rome in 16 AD after the Rhine campaign, which suggests a dating of either 1702 or 1704 – the victorious returns of Joseph from the two sieges of the fortress of Landau in the Palatinate. In May 1705 he became emperor, after which time the allegorical representation of Germanico’s submission to his father (“Cesare”, i.e. Tiberius) would have seemed out of place.

Therefore Germanico is no opera but a celebratory court serenata, consistent in subject, form and style with other musical scores preserved in the Austrian National Library in Vienna: “Cetre amiche, a un cor che langue” by an anonymous composer (1702), Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare vincitore della Mauritania by Giovanni Bononcini (1704), and Attilio Ariosti’s I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano (1704). Its actual title, nowhere to be found in the score, may have sounded like Il Trionfo (or Il Sogno) di Germanico. Listening to the excerpts from the recording suggests a temptative attribution to either of the above composers, whilst the librettist might be the Neapolitan Donato Cupeda, the poeta cesareo (imperial poet) until 1705, or his vice Pietro Andrea Bernardoni. And what about the attribution on the opening page? Even the tiny facsimile provided by Sony raises doubts. Is it possible that a manuscript so formally written by such a careful copyist should lack a normal title-page? The hand that inscribed the attribution to “Hendl” is apparently not the same that has written “Andante” three times over the first bar of the sinfonia. Was the attribution a later guess or an attempt to allure a collector?

We must await further scholarly investigation to answer these and sundry questions. Meanwhile the music remains with us: full of educatedly languid melodies, intriguing ensembles and all the rich instrumentation that the Viennese Hofkapelle could afford. It doesn’t sound like Handel but it is definitely worth hearing.


By Carlo Vitali(*) courtesy of Classic Voice magazine, Milan

(*) Carlo Vitali is the author and contributor to various musicological studies of Handel’s Italian period, published by Bärenreiter and Cambridge University Press.

Germanico, condottiero romano – Sara Mingardo
Agrippina, sua moglie – Maria Grazia Schiavo
Antonia, sua madre - Laura Cherici
Lucio, console romano – Franco Fagioli
Celio, console romano – Magnus Staveland
Cesare, Tiberio Imperatore di Roma – Sergio Foresti

Il Rossignolo
Ottaviano Tenerani

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Philip Glass - Minimal Piano Works Volume 1


Classical, Soundtracks | Easy CD-DA, FLAC tracks
1 CD, Cover, Booklet | 214 MB
CD Date: 1999 | Piano Productions | Brilliant ReEd


“In my concert career I have played a lot of minimal— or minimal related music. Pieces by John Adams, Steve Reich, Simeon ten Holt and Arvo Pärt are favorites on my repertoire list. Philip Glass is an eccentric composer, and for some reason I had never played his pianomusic, until last year when I did several concerts in The Netherlands. It was a real eye-opener. The music is so sensitive and pianisticly written. It is a joy to play and perform Glass.”


Music by Philip Glass
Jeroen Van Veen, piano
Jeroen Van Veen plays on a Yamaha CFIII Concert Grand Piano.


TRACKS:

METAMORPHOSIS
1. Metamorphosis One 6:48
2. Metamorphosis Two 8:30
3. Metamorphosis Three 4:27
4. Metamorphosis Four 6:03
5. Metamorphosis Five 5:53

MAD RUSH
6. Mad Rush 15:03

WICHITA SUTRA VORTEX
7. Wichita Sutra Vortex 8:34

OPENING
8. Opening (from Glassworks, arr. Van Veen) 11:09




I'm beginning here to resurrect some of the works that "disappeared" from Avax or were "abandoned" from the original uploaders. There's not a real thought behind it, I'm just cleaning up my HDs and following the wind. What I downloaded long ago is flowing back. All credits go to the first uploader. Enjoy...

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01 May 2012

Festa Teatrale - Carnival in Venice & Florence


Easy CD-DA | FLAC tracks | Covers | 294 Mb
Date CD: January 10, 2000 | Harmonia Mundi | 61:56



The concert begins and ends with versions, so similar as to be functionally identical, of 'Festa, riso, gioco, e gioia' by Giramo; a vibrant dance song from 1620. This sets the tone definitively with its first line "Party, Laughter, Fun and Happiness". This is indeed carnival time with its frolics, folly and fantasy with song and dance playing a major part.
However, after setting such a cheery agenda, the second song by Legrenzi is a mournful lament presented with much emotion by soprano Dorethee Mields. From hereon the program alternates between heartbreak and joy. The longest piece 'Mascherata della Malinconia & Allegrezza' by Vecchi is a prolonged debate between Melancholy and Joy; Joy wins, but Melancholy ends it with a request to learn of the 'delights of love'. (Amazon)

tracklist:

Pietro Antonio Giramo: Festa, riso, gioco, e gioia
Giovanni Legrenzi: Lumi, potete piangere
Claudio Monteverdi: Questi vaghi concenti
Francesco Lambardi: Canto d`Amore
Diego Ortiz: Recercada quinta sobre el passamezzo antiguo
Claudio Monteverdi: Vorrei baciarti, o Filli
Orazio Vecchi: Mascherata della Malinconia, & Allegrezza
Claudio Monteverdi: Damigella, tutta bella / O rosetta, che rosetta
Salamon Rossi: Sonata in dialogo detta La Viena
Claudio Monteverdi: A quest'olmo
Tarquino Merula: Chiacona
Orazio Vecchi: Sia maledetto Amore / Sia benedetto Amore
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi: L`innamorato / Il bell`humore / Amor vittorioso
Pietro Antonio Giramo: Festa, riso, gioco, e gioia


soprano, Dorothee Mields
altos, Bernhard Landauer and Jurgen Banholzer
tenor, Hans J. Mammel
bass, Ekkehard Abele

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock

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Philip Glass - Itaipu and Three Songs for Choir a Cappella


Classical | Easy CD-DA, FLAC tracks, No CUE, No Log

1 CD, Cover, HQ | 252 MB
CD Date: February 2, 2010 | Orange Mountain Music


“Orange Mountain Music presents this album of choral music by Philip Glass. The first work on the record is a re-issue of the Los Angeles Master Chorale's performance of Glass' large-scale orchestra and choral oratorio Itaipu. The piece was inspired by the giant hydro-electric dam in Brazil. It was part of a series of pieces Glass has done involving depictions of nature, man's relationship to nature, and also more generally fell into a recurrent theme in Glass' catalog involving the country of Brazil. Itaipu is conducted by Los Angeles Master Chorale Music Director Grant Gershon. The second work on the album is Philip Glass' only work for chorus a cappella. Three Songs are set to poems by three prominent writers, Leonard Cohen, Octavio Paz, and Raymond Levesque. Three Songs is performed by the Crouch End Festival Chorus conducted by David Temple and is a re-issue of the Silva Screen recording of the work from 2000.”



Conductor: Grant Gershon
Composer: Philip Glass
Performer: Los Angeles Master Chorale

TRACKS:

Los Angeles Master Chorale - Conducted by Grant Gershon
1.Itaipu - Mato Grasso 11:54
2. Itaipu - The Lake 8:23
3. Itaipu - The Dam 11:17
4. Itaipu - To the Sea 4:52

Crouch End Festival Chorus - Conducted by David Temple
5 Three Songs - There are Some Men (Leonard Cohen) 2:52
6. Three Songs - Quand les Hommes (Raymond Levesque) 2:59
7. Three Songs - Pierre de Soleil (Octavio Paz) 4:0



I'm beginning here to resurrect some of the works that "disappeared" from Avax or were "abandoned" from the original uploaders. There's not a real thought behind it, I'm just cleaning up my HDs and following the wind. What I downloaded long ago is flowing back. All credits go to the first uploader. Enjoy...

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