VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Semaine Mystique: Devotional songs from the reign of Louis XIII Faenza / Marco Horvat [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] |
GIOVANNI LORENZO LULIER
Lulier Francesca Boncompagni, Accademia Ottoboni, Marco Ceccato [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] In Rome between the late seventeenth century and the early eighteenth, academies and 'conversazioni' (artistic gatherings) organised by aristocrats and cardinals attracted the leading writers and musicians. The names of Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
All'Opera: Profumo di Violetta Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet & saxophone) with Marco Remondini (cello) / Filarmonica Mousike / Savino Acquaviva [ ECM Records / CD - released 26/Jan/2009 ] Italy's great musical archaeologist and one of today's outstanding improvisers, Gianluigi Trovesi indulges his love for the drama and beauty of Italian opera with Trovesi all'opera - Profumo di Violetta. |
PURCELL / LEONARD COHEN / NICK DRAKE
If Grief Could Wait Giovanna Pessi (baroque harp) / Susanna Wallumrød (voice) / Jane Achtman (viola da gamba) / Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] Unique, intimate album initiated by Swiss baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi and featuring the pure, non-classical voice of Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød. Best known for her work in pop and indie-rock contexts (including the duo Susanna and the... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Concerti Per Esterhazy Amandine Beyer (violin), Marco Ceccato (cello), Gli Incogniti [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] "Amandine Beyer is an eloquent soloist with her group, Gli Incogniti. Closely recorded, she is assertive and stylish. Marco Ceccato is a big, bold soloist in the famous C major Cello Concerto." Classical Music |
VERDI
Aida (complete opera recorded in 2012) Arena di Verona / Hui He, Marco Berti, Andrea Ulbrich, Ambrogio Maestri / Daniel Oren (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] "[Hui He] is quite magnificent, her silvery-toned soprano soaring above the orchestra. Add her involved and expressive acting and excellent vocal characterisation to a smooth legato line and I was bowled over." (MusicWeb) |
DONIZETTI
Le Convenienze ed Inconvenienze Teatrali (complete opera recorded in 2009) Jessica Pratt / Simon Bailey / Christian Senn / Vincenzo Taormina / Teatro alla Scala / Marco Guidarini [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 12/Dec/2010 ] The Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, a young singers project, presents an opera by Donizetti never before performed on the La Scala stage. Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Viva la mamma!) is a farce in two acts which premiered in Milan April... |
RODRIGO
Complete Guitar Music [3 CD set] Ignacio Rodes, Marco Socías, Carlos Pérez, Carles Trepat (guitars) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2010 ] Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-99) composed for the guitar for over 75 years. Over his long and productive life he produced some of the best loved music ever written for the instrument - Concierto de Aranjuez and the Fantasia para un gentilhombre. His output... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Romantic Arias Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Prague Philharmonic / Marco Armilatto [ Decca / CD - released 21/Jan/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Recital - "Were the position of World's Top Tenor available, there may be no stronger candidate at present than Kaufmann. For the most part this recital is a triumph." Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 |
WAGNER
Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Juha Uusitalo / Robert Lloyd / Catherine Naglestad / Marco Jentzsch / The Netherlands Opera / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Harmut Haenchen [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Austrian director Martin Kušej's pioneering vision brings a challenging and provoking insight to Wagner's opera of love and redemption, with his singular ability to connect characters and their actions to the score. Martin Zehetsgruber's spacious,... |
MOZART
Idomeneo (complete opera) Kurt Streit / Angeles Gulin / Iano Tamar / Sonia Ganassi / San Carlo Theatre Chorus and Orchestra / Marco Guidarini [ Naxos Opera Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] The notable musicologist Alfred Einstein commented that Idomeneo is 'one of those works that even a genius of highest rank, like Mozart, could write only once in his life'. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti:Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Mariella Devia, Marco Caria, Silvia Tro Santafe, Gregory Kunde / Bruno Campanella (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims:... |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Complete Music For Cello & Piano Lucio Labella Danzi (cello), Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2021 ] Ernö Dohnányi (or Ernst von Dohnányi as he called himself internationally) lived from 1877 till 1960, he was one of the most important and influential Hungarian composers and pianists of the 20th century. As a piano virtuoso he maintained an active... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Amarcord d'un Tango Marco Albonetti (soprano saxophone), Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneón), Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Apr/2022 ] Marco Albonetti writes: '"Amarcord" signifies memory, the nostalgic re-enactment of the past. Here, it evokes the idea of joining two instruments, the saxophone and the bandoneón, both of which were invented in the middle of the nineteenth century.... |
Marco Ambrosini / Ensemble Supersonus
Resonances [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Led by nyckelharpa virtuoso Marco Ambrosini - first heard on ECM with Rolf Lislevand - Ensemble Supersonus applies its unique instrumental blend, capped by the otherworldly overtone singing of Anna-Maria Hefele, to very wide-ranging repertoire.... |
STEFANI / MONTEVERDI / CACCINI / ANONIMO / MORINI
La Bella Noeva Marco Beasley (voice) / Accordone [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] In the 17th and 18th Centuries music circulated in Europe in the form of manuscript arrangements of popular works. Marco Beasley and Accordone have proposed to revive this quotidian practice of the epoch. |
Marco Beasley; Guido Morini; Accordone
La bella noeva [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Inspired by the practice of Nuove Musiche advocated by Caccini in 1602, this album takes us to the foundations of modern Italian vocal music: a journey to the heart of the musical innovation that led to opera, presented by the singer Marco Beasley,... |
Marco Beltrami
Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [ Sony Classical / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). The film music is scored by Marco Beltrami ( Fear Street, Chaos Walking, Nine Perfect Strangers). Venom: Let There Be Carnage (also known as Venom 2) is... |
Marco Beltrami
The Woman in Black (Original Soundtrack) [ Silva Screen / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] |
Marco Ceccato; Accademia Ottoboni
Bononcini: Cello Sonatas [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747) and his younger brother, Antonio Maria (1677-1726) were considered by their contemporaries to be among the most outstanding cello virtuosi of their time; today, however, they are best known not only as... |