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 ...
In the early twenty-first century, there has been an emerging trend; major labels identifying large cycles from within their classical catalog and issuing a cut-rate box set encompassing them in their entirety. Some critics see this as a negative trend, devaluating the classical catalog, but it makes sound commercial sense -- most of these older ...
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 ...
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 ...
If this is the future of Mozart performance practice, the future is secure. The combination of period instrument violinist Giuliano Carmignola and modern instrument conductor Claudio Abbado leading the youthful period instrument Orchestra Mozart produces something new under the sun: a hybrid of both approaches that takes the best from both and ...
Is there really a crying need for another recording of Mozart's Violin Concertos? After all, the works have already had hundreds of recordings and the honor roll of the great recordings probably runs to the dozens. But, in fact, the answer is yes, not only is there room for another recording of Mozart's Violin Concertos, but, in truth, there must ...
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