Nobody would accuse violinist Giuliano Carmignola, harpsichordist and conductor Andrea Marcon, or the Venice Baroque Orchestra of softness or sentimentality. In this 2006 recording of five violin concertos by Vivaldi, no trace of vibrato or portamento touches their bows and even crescendos are treated as if contagious. There's no doubting ...
Someone ought to get some t-shirts made that say "Vivaldi rocks!" At least that partly accounts for his popularity in the twenty first century; among the old masters, Antonio Vivaldi's sense of rhythmic dynamics and the gale-like force of many of his string concertos are close enough to the ever-enervating pulse of pop music that he has found an ...
When considering the first set of compositions designed to truly extend and test the technical limits of the violin, most would first consider the 24 Caprices of Paganini. However, more than a century before Paganini was even thought of, Italian composer Pietro Locatelli was pushing the violin to its limits with his four concertos of Opus 3, ...
Concerto veneziano is Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola's maiden voyage under the terms of his contract with Archiv; here Carmignola is partnered with period instrument ensemble Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon. Unlike his Sony recording Vivaldi: Late Violin Concertos, none of the works featured on Concerto veneziano are recording ...
Vivaldi's so-called motets, in this case more accurately described as solo cantatas, are gaining favor among singers with their mixture of vocal athleticism and fervent sacred texts. They are more operatic than Bach's cantatas, with a vocabulary of operatic effects deployed to illustrate religious ideas (ocean storms stand in for trials of the ...
Andromeda Liberata is a serenata, or two-part ceremonial cantata with a hint of allegorical storyline, given in Venice on September 18, 1726, in honor of visiting Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Most early eighteenth century works of this type are so courtly, genteel, and refined that often their common destiny is to languish and gather dust on the ...
As compilations go, this double-disc package from Haenssler Classic may not be the most exciting collection of J.S. Bach's organ music ever made, but it is a well-rounded package of the best-known works, and the presentation is enlivened by the inclusion of five brilliant performers on a variety of instruments. Leading off the program with the ...
In the crush of mezzo sopranos actively recording, Angelika Kirchschlager's warm and direct voice stands somewhat apart from the perhaps overly subjective Cecilia Bartoli and the possibly overly objective Anne-Sofie von Otter. This combination has worked well in many, even most, of Kirchschlager's recordings: her disc of Korngold and Mahler songs ...
When we refer to the "Bach Double," most classical music aficionados know what's being discussed: Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043. Apart from reconstructions, it's his only double concerto for two violins. With Antonio Vivaldi, such an abbreviated designation is impossible, as he has 27 -- count 'em -- 27 ...
Before the release of this disc called Ah! Mio cor!, charismatic mezzo soprano Magdalena Kozená had already made her mark as a Handel singer with her recordings of the composer's Italian cantatas and opera Julius Caesar, but this triumphant 2007 collection of arias affirms her mastery of the German-English composer's music. Featuring selections ...
Antonio Vivaldi composed opera for Italian theaters for some three decades, often in connection with the Carnival season observed right before Lent. Not only did he write a lot of operas, he composed a great many opera arias and was not above revisiting an aria from a past effort and dressing it up anew for a subsequent one. A sobering amount of ...
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