LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano), Marco Testori (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Beethoven wrote sympathetically for the cello throughout his career, from the ardent, lyrical voice of the Op.1 piano trios onwards, and he rarely subjugated the instrument to its basso continuo role still prevalent in the works of Mozart and Haydn.... |
GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali libro quarto, 1596 Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Gesualdo's Fourth Book of Madrigals contains some of the most inspired and anguished vocal works in the entire madrigal repertoire, written while the composer was tormented by remorse after the murder of his wife and her lover. |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: The Complete Madrigals Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2013 ] Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, became famous for two reasons: the bloody double murder of his first wife and her lover, and his passionate and erotic view of profane love. The Madrigals chart the changes in Gesualdo's style, and contain some of... |
GESUALDO
Madrigali Libro Primo (Madrigals Book 1) Delitiæ Musicæ / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "The nuances of dynamics and phrasing--not to mention the exceptional breath control and intonation--show an ensemble, like the music's composer, working at the highest artistic level." (10/9 ClassicsToday June 2011) |
GESUALDO
Madrigali libro secondo, 1594 [Madrigals, Book 2] Delitiæ Musicæ / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] Gesualdo's Second Book of Madrigals, performed on this recording by male voices only, is an even more radical study of the themes explored in Volume 1 (8.570548), a continuation as it were of the same work. Like Book 1, it was published in 1594 in... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigals [Books 1 - 9] Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / 15 CD Box Set - released 24/Jul/2020 ] The editions used in these recordings are the most authentic and uncut, and, in keeping with 17th-century practice, employ male voices only. Praised as 'compelling, simultaneously controlled and imaginative' (American Record Guide) |
GESUALDO
Madrigals, Book 3 Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] "the third book moves into much more dangerous emotional territory, in which the level of dissonance is much higher, and the setting of the texts is pushed to expressive extremes. The six singers of Delitiae Musicae clearly relish those musical... |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 6 (Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali, 1614) Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] Monteverdi’s Sixth Book of Madrigals, which appeared nine years after his previous volume, was conceived as his final, though highly significant contribution to the stile antico. |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 1 (Il Primo Libro de Madrigali, 1587) and Secular Manuscript Works Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini, conductor [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The delicious imagery, with its writhing chromatic harmonies, are performed with sure sensitivity in this Naxos release by the Italian singers and instrumentalists of Delito Musicae." - Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman, 21 October 2002 |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals-Book 4 Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Nov/2005 ] "Beautiful ensemble singing where individual voices rise and fall into unison like swelling waves" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 5 Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] (Il Quinto Libro de' Madrigali, 1605) "...takes even further the expressive writing with which he had already so successfully experimented, and which had delighted some famous figures but scandalized others." |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 7 Concerto (Il Settimo Libro de Madrigali 1619) Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini, conductor [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] The 'Concerto' (as Claudio Monteverdi entitled his Seventh Book of Madrigals) was published five years after the Sixth Book had appeared. It represents a clear break with Monteverdi's earlier publications: here the madrigal is transformed or,... |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 2 (Non giacinti o narcisi Non son in queste rive and others) Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] "..some of Monteverdi's most colorful and expressive--with deft technique, splendid ensemble blend and balance, and an amazingly rich timbral palette that the performers employ with convincing command of style and consummate good taste. This is great... |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 3 (Il Terzo Libro de' Madrigali, 1592) Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini, conductor [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has... |
GESUALDO
Madrigals Books 5 and 6 Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] A hugely impressive collection, which steers a perfectly judged, immaculate course between the extremes of earthy expressionism and sterile detachment. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (complete opera) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marco Caria, Kostas Smoriginas, Ildar Abdrazakov, Barbara Frittoli / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2015 ] "It is obvious [that Hvorostovsky] has thought deeply about Boccenegra and is absolutely inside the character; he is also able to realise his portrayal with an impressive largesse of tone." BBC Music |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Arias Emma Matthews (soprano) / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Marco Letonj [ ABC Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2014 ] ABC Classics presents the recording return of one of its brightest stars, soprano Emma Matthews. Following the success of her 2009 album Emma Matthews in Monte Carlo, recorded with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Emma now turns her... |
ANONYMOUS
Chominciamento di Gioia (Beginning of Joy) - Virtuoso Dance Music from the Time of Boccaccio's Decamerone Ensemble Unicorn / Oni Wytars / Michael Posch / Marco Ambrosini [ Naxos / CD ] "A delight to listen to and shows intelligent musician ship of a very high order. "The beginning of joy", the title of the record itself, says it all." Gramophone |
MUSIC OF THE TROUBADOURS
Music Of The Troubadours Ensemble Unicorn / Oni Wytars / Michael Posch / Marco Ambrosini [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] Oni Wytars Ensemble; Unicorn Ensemble, Michael Posch |
ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Solos and Concertos Fitted for the Flutes Estro Cromatico; Marco Scorticati [ Arcana / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] In early 18th-century England, the recorder was a popular instrument among music lovers, therefore - since the eminent Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli's works made an enormous impression in the country - it was only a matter of time before... |