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Italian composer (1714–1774)
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Neapolitan Flute Concertos
Neapolitan Flute ConcertosGiuseppe de Majo, Gennaro Rava, Tommaso Prota, Niccolò Jommelli,Antonio PalellaCarlo Ipata, transverse fluteAuser MusiciRecorded November 2008Label: Hyperion CDA67784Posted on behalf of Thomas Cadfael
2024-01-17 15:21:11
Guglielmo Ebreo – Artefactum Domenico da Piacenza – Lioncello Niccolo Jommelli Piano Con
2023-08-20 04:00:00
Italian Arias of the 18th Century (Mónika González, Fabio Pirona, Savaria Baroque Orchestra)
Italian Arias by: Niccolò Jommelli, Tommaso Traetta, Leonardo Leo, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini & Baldasare GaluppiMónika González, SopranoFabio Pirona, Savaria Baroque Orchestra(Period Instruments)Hungaroton HCD 32253-2(See back cover for complete track listing) [Flac & Scans]
2023-07-17 08:03:00
Médée, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 July 2023
[…] enthusiastic audience. Médée continues, in various ways, to seem a strange work, though it may be our categories and reference points that are at fault there rather than the opera itself. Some of its arias seem long for their role, as if transplanted from a pre-Mozartian seria world that yet cannot evade the Salzburger’s influence (and why should anyone wish to?) At the same time, the influence of reformist Gluck – and, I think, Niccolò Jommelli – is felt strongly, accompagnati and increasingly dramatic orchestral writing included. If one can tell, or at least speculate, why Cherubini and Beethoven would have held such mutual respect, it is Berlioz who, perhaps surprisingly, comes to seem closer as the work proceeds. Breth and Sergio Morabito have drastically shortened the dialogue. One can understand why, especially with a non-Francophone cast – Charles Castronovo fared notably better in spoken French than the rest – […]
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