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Il gondoliere Veneziano: A musical voyage through Venice - baritone Holger Falk evokes the musical world of the 18th century gondolier in this imaginative disc
[…] in the 18th century, canzoni da battello were a distinct repertoire, and not only quoted by composers but pulished in collections and in London the ubiquitous John Walsh (most famous for his pirate editions of Handel), brought out a collection. On this disc, Holger Falk and Nuovo Aspetto have combed these archives, and put together a selection of 12 anonymous canzoni da battello and they perform them alongside songs and arias by Domenico Cerutti, Pierto Auletta, Johann Simon Mayr, and Andre Campra inspired by canzoni da battello. And of course, no disc on 18th century Venice would be complete without Vivaldi, so we get three concerto movements. Linking it all are sound compositions by Merzouga (Eva Popplein and Janko Hanushevsky) based on field-recordings made in modern day Venice, so that the disc really does feel like wandering through the Venetian streets and canals. And we start with Tasso! Falk sings […]
2015-11-23 20:18:58
Maxed out
[…] It’s too bad that economics ordained that just five members of Il Pomo d’Oro could make the trip to the U.S. Although the string players played with fire, they couldn’t help but sound a bit scrawny at times. With a big mop of brown hair and appearing all of sixteen, Russian conductor Maxim Emelyanychev led his small forces from the harpsichord with spirit and contributed a slight but sprightly concerto by Domenico Auletta. The most substantial instrumental piece was a vibrant, driving “Grave and Fuga in G minor” often attributed to Johann Adolph Hasse but more likely composed by Franz Xaver Richter. With one exception, the arias performed at the Met came from operas written for Naples during the pre-galante period of 1724-1737. An excerpt from Il Tigrane, a 1716 work by Alessandro Scarlatti, sounded quite old school by comparison. As Scarlatti is often called the father […]
2012-05-18 06:10:42
Just my Gluck
[…] of what Gluck’s opera seria are like. Astonishingly, the new Ezio conducted by Alan Curtis for Virgin Classics is that work’s third recording in the past few years although the Oehms features a revised score done for Vienna in 1763. A complex drama focused on a fraught love triangle being manipulated from behind the scenes by the heroine’s father, Ezio was one of Metastasio’s most popular libretti, first set by Porpora, then Auletta in 1728, and later by others like Traetta and Myslive?ek. Clearly Alan Curtis has a special interest in Ezio having performed (and, according to rumor, also recorded) one of Jommelli’s three versions as well as recorded Handel’s 1732 opera for Archiv several years ago, a CD which shares several cast members with his Gluck version: Ann Hallenberg, who sings the Handel hero, swaps sexes to Fulvia, Gluck’s heroine, whereas Sonia Prina, Ezio in […]
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