Tilman Hoppstock FERNANDO SOR Werke für Gitarre

 

WERKE FÜR GITARRE

 

Sylvia-Elisabeth Viertel / Andreas Frölich SCHUMANN - GRANADOS - PIAZZOLLA - REVUELTAS - SCHUBERT

 

 

SCHUMANN - GRANADOS - PIAZZOLLA - REVUELTAS - SCHUBERT

Enrico Baiano MUSICA AL TEMPO DI LUCA GIORDANO

MUSICA AL TEMPO DI LUCA GIORDANO

Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua / Stefano Albarello CANTICUM CANTICORUM

CANTICUM CANTICORUM

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica LA BELLEZZA

LA BELLEZZA

Alessandra Visentin / Ensemble Locatelli / Luca Oberti ANTONIO VIVALDI Per la Sig.ra Geltruda

MOTETS & STABAT MATER

Maria Krestinskaya / Imbi Tarum / Pavel Serbin LUIGI LUDOVICO MADONIS Violin Sonatas

                                                                 VIOLIN SONATAS

Sergio Foresti / Stile Galante / Stefano Aresi ANTONIO CALDARA Brutus

With this album, Stile Galante continues its work in the world of the Italian solo chamber cantata – here Stefano Aresi’s ensemble joins forces with baritone Sergio Foresti in order to bring us a selection of cantatas by Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) for bass. These unusual pieces are preserved in precious manuscripts in Bologna and Vienna and are extremely demanding for the singer, asking for great skills (both vocal and theatrical). The seven cantatas recorded here offer a welcome, unusual view on Italian vocal chamber music, especially as linked to the Viennese court. The Italian bass, Sergio Foresti, graduated with full marks in piano, under the guidance of Germana Ruozi, and in singing with Maria Gabriella Munari at the Istituto Musicale O. Vecchi. He subsequently took part in the specialising courses held by Liliana Poli and Leonardo De Lisi. Sergio Foresti made his debut in 1998 in L’Olimpiade by Antonio Vivaldi at the Teatro Rendano di Cosenza. From then on, he started to appear in some of the most important festivals and theatres throughout Europe.

Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Weihnachtsoratorium

After Handels’s Messiah and the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, Daniela Dolci and Musica Fiorita present on Pan Classics their version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Based in Basel, Dolci has easy access to many of the best vocal soloists around, and this recording has been no exception: the role of the Evangelist is sung by Hans Jörg Mammel, and the other main roles are defended by Gunta Smirnova, Flavio Ferri-Benedetti and Raitis Grigalis. With such a setup, the question of “why a new recording of the Christmas Oratorio” is needed is easily answered. For more than 25 years the ensemble Musica Fiorita, conducted by Daniela Dolci, has been specializing in the performance of late Renaissance and Baroque music. The ensemble strives to promote the current standards of historically informed performance practice and is committed to being true to both the original scores and the liveliness of their performance. The varied use of period instruments as well as the presence of a substantial continuo group add to the flourishing of the finer nuances of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Lina Tur Bonet / Patxi Montero / Kenneth Weiss ELISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE Violin Sonatas

After the success of her recordings with music by Vivaldi, Biber, and Corelli, Lina Tur Bonet focuses for this new release on the French female composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, a protegee of Louis XIV. The six Sonates pour le viollon et pour le clavecin by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, dedicated to Louis XIV, appeared in Paris in 1707, the year when the models and the most recent invenzioni of the Italian sonata arrived in France, immediately captivating composers such as Louis-Antoine Dornel, Michel Blavet, Francois Couperin and Jean-Marie Leclair l’aine. Although the collection was printed in 1707, it appears that as early as 1695 Elisabeth had sent a copy of at least two sonatas to her friend Sebastien de Brossard, theoretician and composer fascinated by the Italian repertoire, a factor which had made it possible to bring forward significantly the date of composition in the anthology, making this one of the first French examples of sonatas for violin and basso continuo.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica ANTONIO VIVALDI Il Grosso Mogul

Regarded as "one of the most exciting violinists of her generation", the versatile violinist Lina Tur Bonet has worked together with a large number of the most remarkable performers of either Baroque, Romantic or Contemporary music since her youth.

Her CDs by Pan Classics (Jacquet de la Guerre Sonatas, Biber Rosenkranz Sonatas, Corelli op,V and Vivaldi Premieres) have been awarded twice with 5 Diapasons, four times “Excepcional” by Scherzo, "R" Recomendado by Ritmo, “Melómano de Oro” and Tipp from Tocatta.

The CD "Mystery Sonatas" of Biber were regarded also as 5* by BBC Music Magazine, nominated for the International Classic Music Awards (ICMA) as 2015 best recording of Baroque Music, to be finally awarded the GEMA prize for 2015 best CD and also appointed best release of the year by “El Cultural” of “El Mundo” and "Referential Recording" by Gramophone.

Eva Juárez / A Corte Musical / Rogério Gonçalves SEBASTIÁN DURÓN Lágrimas, Amor...

Sebastián Durón is one of those composers whose turbulent life story, combined with an exceptional musical output, can end up leaving nobody indifferent. He was born in 1660, in Brihuega, a small municipality in Castilla-La Mancha and was the younger brother of another important Spanish composer, Diego Durón (1653-1731), who became the maestro de capilla in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. At the age of nineteen, Sebastián embarked on his musical career as assistant organist to Andrés Sola in the cathedral of San Salvador (La Seo) in Zaragoza. In the following years, he travelled across mainland Spain to be employed as second organist in the cathedral of Sevilla (1680), and first organist in the cathedrals of Burgo de Osma 1685) and Palencia (1686). During the course of this time he was ordained as a priest. 

By now, his fame as an organist and as a composer was already such that in 1691 King Carlos II appointed him to succeed the organist José Sanz, who in that year was going into retirement. Durón quickly became one of the favourite Madrid court composers, as much for his religious music as for that for the stage. During this period, Durón also took the opportunity to work for high-ranking families of the nobility, such as the Dukes of Osuna and the Counts of Oñate. The absence of the official maestro of the Real Capilla, Diego Verdugo led increasingly to the musical responsibilities falling upon Durón until, in 1701, with the arrival of the first Spanish Bourbon king, Felipe V, Durón was appointed maestro of the Real Capilla as well as rector of the Real Colegio de Niños Cantorcicos.

Diego Ares ANTONIO SOLER El Diablo Vestido de Fraile

Diego Ares, born in Vigo in 1983, studied piano with Aldona Dvarionaitė and Alis Jurgelionis, and harpsichord with Pilar Cancio (Spain), Richard Egarr (Holland), Jesper Christensen and Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (Switzerland).

As harpsichord soloist, Diego Ares has performed extensively in Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, and Japan.

For his first CD, he recorded Soler’s Fandango and two harpsichord concertos by J. S. Bach with the Island of Menorca Chamber Orchestra conducted by Farran James (Columna Musica, 2006). His two solo recordings for Pan Classics have been praised by audiences and critics: “El Diablo vestido de fraile,” harpsichord music by P. Fr. Antonio Soler, was given the Diapason d’Or and recommended by “The Record Geijutsu”; “Vivi felice,” harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, was also awarded the Diapason d’Or and rated exceptional by Scherzo Magazine.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica BIBER Mystery Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas (or Mystery Sonatas) c. 1678 are unlike anything else in the violin literature, with scordatura, or unconventional instrument tuning, exhaustively explored in the fifteen-piece cycle, each sonata utilizing a different tuning. Each sonata represents one of the Catholic Rosary Mysteries. As the music reaches its spiritual climax in the "Resurrection" sonata, Biber specifies the violin be played with its two central strings crossed. Accompanying Lina Tur Bonet, an exciting younger generation violinist, is her ensemble Musica Alchemica.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica LA GIOIA

All six of Corelli's published collections of instrumental music demonstrate his exceptional skill as a violinist and composer, but it was in his Violin Sonatas Op. 5 that Corelli had the most significant impact on violin technique. The Op. 5 collection consists of 11 sonatas and a 12th sonata with a series of 23 variations on the famous 'Follia' theme. All 12 pieces contain a variety of difficult violin techniques.

Lina Tur Bonet is one of the most exciting violinists of the younger generation. She is accompanied by her ensemble Musica Alchemica. Her recent recordings for Pan classics - Vivaldi Premieres and the Rosary Sonatas by Biber – received many awards as 5* BBC Music Magazine, 5* Diapason, "CD-Tipp" (Toccata), "Excepcional" (Scherzo), "Melomano de Oro", and others.

Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci JOHANN MELCHIOR GLETLE Motetten op. 5

The Swiss Baroque composer Johann Melchior Gletle's motets are among the most notable music to survive from that era. Although Gletle's musical background and much of his biography is obscured in the mists of passing centuries, it is known that Gletle produced an extensive collection of works. The ensemble Musica Fiorita has recorded selections of the motets of Gletle previously but with "Motets, Opus 4", they've amassed the entirety of Gletle's motet oeuvre in a 4 CD box set. With multiple hues coloring the instrumental spectrum and the virtuosity of the vocal and instrumental parts, Gletle's legacy is rediscovered in this spotlight collection from one of the finer Baroque ensembles today.

Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI Rosinda ed Emireno

"In 2009, I came across an interesting catalogue entry in the Austrian National Library. It was the opera 'Rosinda ed Emiremo' by Giacomo Perti with obbligato cornett arias. Since this instrument has always played a major role on many of our programmes, I was immediately electrified by this finding. The music turned out to be highly interesting – sweet, sonorous melodies with dialogues between the voice and cornett, a wonderful musical rarity. I soon put together a Bolognese concert programme on which the most beautiful arias from the opera were combined with instrumental sonatas from Giovanni Legrenzi’s Op. 8. The music went together very well and could be so readily combined because Legrenzi had dedicated his Op. 8 to Perti’s uncle, Lorenzo Perti. In addition, we played an aria from Giacomo Perti’s opera 'Penelope la Casta' in which the cornett has a highly virtuoso part. After the concert and the CD recording, I was contacted by the musicologist Rodolfo Zitellini, who specialises in Perti. He drew my attention to an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti entitled 'L’Emiremo ovvero il consiglio dell’ombra', based on the same libretto as Perti’s 'Rosinda ed Emiremo'. It was quite a surprise when we realised that not only were the libretti the same, but that the two operas – each aria, each recitative – were absolutely identical! I asked Rodolfo Zitellini to take on this task and, thanks to his painstaking research, we know today that Scarlatti composed the opera, not Perti. We are most delighted over the solution to this almost criminological puzzle and grateful for this new knowledge. One way or the other, it is clear that the music is magnificent, and it has been a worthwhile endeavour to wrest it from the darkness of the archive." (Daniela Dolci)

Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Ode for St Cecilia's Day

The harpsichordist and leader of the ensemble Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (native of Sicily), studied early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, specializing on historical keyboard instruments. Subsequently she went to Amsterdam for further training with Gustav Leonhardt. Her main focus – inspired by the work with Jesper B. Christensen—is the historical basso continuo practice, based on 17th and 18th century sources.

Well on time for St Cecilia's Day on 22 November, Pan classics presents a new recording of the impressive ode composed by Handel. The fine Basel-based orchestra Musica Fiorita, conducted by Daniela Dolci, performs this well-known work with their trademark historically informed knowledge and elegance, perfectly translating Handel's intentions in terms of underlining the text with very intentional use of musical affects. The Ode for St Cecilia's Day is joined on this CD by the Concerto grosso op. 6 no. 4, a further ocassion to appreciate the ensemble's fine playing. (Presto Classical)

Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci DOMENICO ZANATTA Venezia

Little is known about the life of Domenico Zanatta. He was most probably born in Venice as the title pages of his prints seem to attest. The very sparse notices on his early life indicate that he soon started a musical career, already printing his first collection of sonatas at the young age of 24. But he also had a second endeavor: His group of cantatas. Zanatta shows a great mastery of the genre and his melodic inventiveness freely flows between the structuring parts of his cantatas, continuing the tradition of his Venetian colleagues in a much worthy way. Flavio Ferri-Benedetti and Musica Fiorita, under Daniela Dolci, present some of his pieces in between works by Cavalli, Strozzi, who was a pupil of Cavalli, and Fontana, who was a pioneer of the, at the beginning of the 17th century, new stile recitativo. (Arkiv Music)

Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Klingende Geographie

It is difficult to believe that there are still works from Telemann’s pen that are completely new to today's musical world – indeed, the "Musical Geography" introduced here is a rarity hardly known even to experts. The 38 movements of this work are taken from Telemann’s orchestral suites; also in their original contexts, they bear geographical titles such as Les Suisses, Polonaise and Les Moscovites. The musicologist Adolf Hoffmann assembled them in 1959, modelled on Telemann’s "Singing Geography", as a series of contrasting, mostly dancelike movements, combining to create a new overall form. They have a special appeal because they lend expression to differences in national characters with musical means in a variety of ways.

Daniela Dolci and her ensemble Musica Fiorita interpret the "Musical Geography", as well as Telemann's Concerto in D minor for two violins, viola and basso continuo, with charm, verve and in an exceptionally colourful instrumentation; the contribution made by the recorder player Maurice Steger is especially worth listening to. This is a recording which expresses all the humour and the virtually limitless imagination of this composer. (Presto Classical)