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Celebrating 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists - Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge
[…] other while escaping Hades hand-in-hand! Cavalli's last opera, Eliogabolo features a hero who dressed and acted as woman, though this was replaced at short notice by a version in which the notoriously dissolute Roman emperor repents in the final scene. Here, though, we do not hear from the title role but from Eliogabolo's successor, Alessandro lamenting the fickleness of love.There are instrumental items to puncture the programme of duets and arias, with items by Tarquino Merula, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Giovanni Legrenzi.As I discovered when I chatted to Randall Scotting last year, he is as much at home doing research in libraries as in the concert hall, and the programme concept, repertoire selections, performing editions, and English translations are all his.Randall Scotting, Jorge Navarro Colorado (Photo: Joel Benjamin)The programme engages on multiple levels. At the most basic, it is a wonderfully sung account of wonderful music. Both singers have a lovely […]
2021-03-12 09:25:43
Lunaris: an evocative and eclectic journey through the phases of the moon from two artists known for their performances in Early Music, Jorge Jiménez and Anna Stegmann
Lunaris; Anna Stegmann, Jorge Jiménez; GWK Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 March 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) An intriguing journey through the phases of the moon in music from Medieval to Berio, performed by two artists known for their performances in Early MusicLunaris on GWK Records takes two artists best known for their skill in the Early Music world, Anna Stegmann (recorders) and Jorge Jiménez (violin,vielle) and gives them free reign to create a soundscape which moves from anonymous 13th and 14th century pieces to Tarquinio Merula from the 17th century to Ysaye and Bartok to Berio, all linked together with Jimenez own soundscapes. I last reviewed Jorge Jiménez' work on Soledad, his disc for solo violin which moved from Biber and Bach to Lorca. This new collaboration with Anna Stegmann takes a similar creative approach. Lunaris is themed around the phases of the moon, and […]
2020-11-27 07:40:04
[…] at the Handel House Museum (now Handel & Hendrix), and she has been a young artist with St John's Smith Square and with the City Music Foundation. Since 2018 she has been represented by YCAT (Young Classical Artists Trust), and this disc is the first fruits of a new collaboration between YCAT and Delphian. The disc casts its net quite widely. The opening Ciaconna, arranged by Debus and McCartney, is after Antonio Bertalli, Tarquinio Merula, and Claudio Monteverdi. And after that we get music by Germans (Handel), Italians (Pietro Castrucci, Alessandro Marcello (with ornaments by Bach), Arcangelo Corelli, Andrea Falconierei), Frenchmen (Marin Marais, Pierre-Francisque Carroubel), a Spaniard (Antonio Soler), Englishmen (Henry Purcell, John Dowland), plus a Scots folk-tune arranged by an Italian composer, Francesco Geminiani for an English collection, and a couple of anons, not forgetting the two contemporary pieces. In all there are 20 tracks, of which six […]
2019-11-18 16:02:16
Merula and Ormandy, 2019
This Week in Classical Music: November 18, 2019. Merula and Ormandy. Tarquinio Merula (not to be confused with Claudio Merulo), the Italian composer of the early Baroque, was born on November 24th of 1595 in Brusseto, Emilia-Romagna. (Brusseto, a town of only 7,000, has a rich musical history: Giuseppe Verdi, who was born in the nearby village of Le Roncole, went to school in Busseto and further studied there with the composer Ferdinando Provesi; the famous tenor Carlo Bergonzi owned a hotel in Busseto, he called it I due Foscari, after an opera by Verdi in which he sung with great success. Bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni also grew up in Brusseto). Merula studied music in Cremona and worked as an organist there and in Lodi. In 1621 he traveled to Warsaw where he was offered a position of ‘organista di chiesa e di camera’ to Sigismund III, King of Poland. He stayed […]
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