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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-09-21 10:47:37
Second death in Italian ensemble
The early music group La Venexiana has suffered its second death with the loss of the Italian bass singer Daniele Carnovich. He was 63. Based in the Spanish town of Fuenterrabía and married to the Spanish mezzo-soprano Maite Arruabarrena, Carnovich performed internationally with leading baroque ensembles. Three weeks ago, La Venexiana mourned its founder Claudio […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-09-02 15:05:11
Singer-Conductor Claudio Cavina, Major Force In Monteverdi Revival, Dead At 58
He first came to prominence on recordings by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano, especially their landmark series of Monteverdi’s madrigals. He then broke off to found his own consort of singers and instrumentalists, called La Venexiana, with whom he performed and recorded all of Monteverdi’s operas, madrigals, and major sacred works as well as music […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-08-31 08:09:44
Death of Monteverdi pioneer, 58
The Italian conductor and counter-tenor Claudio Cavina has died at 58, four years after suffering a stroke. Co-founder of the La Venexiana ensemble, he performed with many early music groups. His own recordings appears on the on the Opus 111, Cantus and Glossa labels, notably nine books of Monteverdi madrigals and three operas. On Christmas […]
2019-10-14 13:56:43
Karl Richter, 2019
October 14, 2019. Karl Richter. A noted German composer Alexander von Zemlinsky was born on October 14th of 1871. Here’s our entry from six years ago. We think that the brief aside at the end of it, about the painter who created Zemlinky’s portrait, is quite fascinating and characteristic of the pre-Great War Viennese society. Luca Marenzio, the Italian composer of the late Renaissance active in Rome and Ferrara, was born on October 18th of 1553. Here’s a madrigal Solo et pensoso i più deserti campi, a setting of Petrarch’s poem, by Marenzio. It’s performed by the ensemble La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina conducting. And here is our previous entry on this wonderful composer. Also, the great Soviet pianist Emil Gilels was born on October 19th of 1916. Here is his 1972 recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, Waldstein. Read more about Gilels here. Listening to […]
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