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Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano (Best of 2020)
Il Tamerlano Antonio Vivaldi Bruno Taddia, Bajazet; Filippo Mineccia, Tamerlano; Delphine Galou, Asteria; Sophia Rennert, Irene; Marina De Liso, Andronico; Arianna Vendittelli, Idaspe; Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, director Naïve Vivaldi Edition Vol. 65 In recent years, there has been a reconsideration of Antonio Vivaldi’s stage works. A Vivaldi Edition is appearing on the Naïve label, […]
2020-11-19 07:36:02
Handel Rinaldo; Delphine Galou, Francesca Aspromonte, Anna Maria Sarra, Raffale Pe, Luigi De Donato, Federico Benetti, Anna Bessi, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone; HDB Sonus Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 November 2020 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Taken from live performances, this is a vivid account of Handel's first opera for London, recorded in Italy with a largely Italian castHandel's Rinaldo was his calling card opera for London. Premiered at the Queen's Theatre in 1711, it was the first major Italian opera written specifically for London. And Handel pulled out all the stops. He reused a great deal of music from his Italian period (1706-1710), and as a result the piece of full of terrific moments. So, even though the libretto leaves a lot to be desired, Rinaldo crops up moderately regularly.This new recording of Handel's Rinaldo features Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantina, on their own new HDB Sonus label, […]
2020-10-01 06:49:26
Toe-tapping arias & moments of drama: Vivaldi's Tamerlano from Ottavio Dantone & Accademia Bizantina
Vivaldi Il Tamerlano; Bruno Taddia, Filippo Mineccia, Delphine Galou, Sophie Rennert, Marina de Liso, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone; naive Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 30 September 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Vivaldi's late pasticcio uses some gloriously showy arias as a setting for moments of high drama In a letter to a patron in 1737, composer Antonio Vivaldi made reference to writing 94 operas though only around 50 are now known and even fewer survive in any state of completeness. A new set from naive, as part of the complete Vivaldi edition, rather sheds light on what a 'Vivaldi Opera' might be. Vivaldi presented Il Tamerlano in Verona in 1735, and whilst he wrote the recitatives and the accompagnatos, all the arias came from existing operas, eight by Vivaldi himself (including possibly an earlier setting of Il Tamerlano) as well as operas by Geminiano Giacomelli, Johann Adolf Hasse, […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-06-24 19:15:00
The best new classical albums: June 2019
[…] on the character Lemminkäinen from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.In 1906 Sibelius composed ten numbers of incidental music for the play Belshazzar's Feast (by Hjalmar Procopé), which was first performed in the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki in November of that year, the composer conducting. The following year, Sibelius extracted four of the movements to form the more widely known orchestral suite that we hear in this recording.Source: chandos.net Antonio Vivaldi: Arie e cantate per contraltoDelphine Galou, contraltoAccademia BizantinaConductor: Ottavio DantoneRecorded February 2018 at Sala Oriani, Convent San Francesco, Bagnacavallo, ItalyReleased on May 31, 2019 by NaïveWhen it comes to prosperity, Vivaldi got pretty lucky. Thanks to a succession of happy accidents, his personal collection of manuscripts has survived through the centuries, allowing his music to be preserved, then later played and recorded. The contralto Delphine Galou and Ottavio Dantone, the director of the Accademia Bizantina, drew from this priceless batch of nearly 450 […]
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