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Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

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Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 76:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1020 | Recorded: 2015

In 2014, Bruce began a project together with Czech soprano Hana Blažíková to explore the affinity of the cornetto and the human voice. The project was called Breathtaking: A Cornetto and a Voice Entwined. With the program that evolved from that project, Bruce and Hana recorded a CD for the Passacaille label and toured the world performing the program more than forty times in North America, Europe and Australia. In order to make the touring financially viable, they have paired with backup ensembles in Europe, the USA and Australia.

Jamie Savan, The Gonzaga Band - Amadio Freddi: Vespers (1616) (2019)

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Jamie Savan, The Gonzaga Band - Amadio Freddi: Vespers (1616) (2019)

Jamie Savan, The Gonzaga Band - Amadio Freddi: Vespers (1616) (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 58:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Resonus | # RES10245 | Recorded: 2019

Following the international success of their first album on Resonus, Venice 1629, Jamie Savan with his acclaimed period group The Gonzaga Band continue their exploration of lesser-known music in the Baroque Venetian orbit. Here they uncover the Vespers (1616), a forgotten masterpiece by Amadio Freddi, maestro di cappella of Treviso Cathedral during Monteverdi’s tenure at St Mark’s in Venice.

Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)

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Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)

Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 60:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 478 1466 | Recorded: 2008

Rare recordings of two settings of Mary’s passionate Easter lament. For their second L’Oiseau Lyre disc, Il Giardino Armonico, again under their director Giovanni Antonini, are joined by celebrated mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, for a project exploring the Passion of Christ as seen through the eyes of the Virgin Mary. The two central works are both vocal settings of the Virgin’s lament.

Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)

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Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)

Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 440 Mb | Total time: 80:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029563221 | Recorded: 2018

Voglio cantar – ‘I want to sing’ – is Emőke Baráth’s first solo album for Erato. The young Hungarian soprano has built a special reputation in Baroque music and the prime focus here is on Barbara Strozzi, who made her name as a composer in 17th century Venice. “She must have been quite a revolutionary personality,” says Emőke Baráth. “Her music is improvisational, intuitive, even rhapsodic … She was clearly a passionate woman with a strong dramatic sense.” Baráth is joined by Il Pomo d’Oro, conducted by Francesco Corti.

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Venetian Vespers (1643): Monteverdi, Rigatti, Grandi, Cavalli (1993)

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Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Venetian Vespers (1643): Monteverdi, Rigatti, Grandi, Cavalli (1993)

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Venetian Vespers (1643): Monteverdi, Rigatti, Grandi, Cavalli, Finetti, Marini, Banchieri, G. Gabrieli, Fasolo (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 384 Mb | Total time: 62:52+32:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 437 552-2 | Recorded: 1990

This is the second disc to come from Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli forces and it is already their second Gramophone Award. When I reviewed their Virgin Classics' recording of a reconstruction of a dogal coronation of 1595 (5/90) I admired their stylish blend of informed scholarship and sensitive musicianship allied to performances from musicians well-versed in the language of the period. Added to that the music was recorded with great immediacy in the acoustically impressive surroundings of Brinkburn Priory in Northumberland. For this reconstruction of a Vespers that could have be held in St Mark's, Venice McCreesh shows a real understanding of the placing and choreography of the participants in the musical aspects of the liturgy.

Georg Kallweit, Bjorn Colell - Passaggio: A Baroque Alpine Crossing (2017)

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Georg Kallweit, Bjorn Colell - Passaggio: A Baroque Alpine Crossing (2017)

Georg Kallweit, Björn Colell - Passaggio: Eine Barocke Alpenüberquerung (2017)
works by Schmelzer, Piccinini, Marini, Bartolotti, Vilsmayr, Pandolfi Mealli, Muffat

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 326 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 540 | Time: 01:06:43

For several years now, the guitarist and lutenist Björn Colell and the Baroque violinist Georg Kallweit, Konzertmeister of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, have formed a noted duo called Ombra e Luce: ‘With only two musicians and two instruments, we aspire to a perfect rapport and a permanent dialogue. We have access to a rich repertory of original pieces from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries for violin and lute/theorbo: this was a widespread combination, essentially before 1700. We work a great deal on tone colours and nuances, spontaneity and improvisatory playing – a flexible and sensual interpretation of the works we perform, giving full value to chiaroscuro: ombra e luce! We are convinced that, played in this way, our “early music” can speak directly to the hearts even of listeners who are hearing it for the first time. This new recording, “Passagio”, is the result of our recent musical journeys. Setting out from Italy to go farther north, we have virtually and musically crossed the Alps with our instruments. The works on this recording shed a different light on the music of the courts of Modena, Bologna and Venice.’

Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas: Stradella, Marini, Castello, Cima, Uccellini (1998)

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Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas: Stradella, Marini, Castello, Cima, Uccellini (1998)

Convivium - Early Italian Violin Sonatas: Stradella, Marini, Castello, Cima, Uccellini (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 72:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66985 | Recorded: 1997

Everybody will know by now that Elizabeth Wallfisch has a special interest, affection and regard for the 17th- and 18th-century Italian violin schools. She has already recorded much music by the likes of Tartini, Corelli, Locatelli and others with her group, The Locatelli Trio, and also with The Raglan Baroque Players under Nicholas Kraemer. Here is a varied and fascinating collection of pieces by some of the lesser-known composers from a generation or two earlier than those composers.

Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln - Claudio Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Lamento d'Arianna (1985)

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Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln - Claudio Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Lamento d'Arianna (1985)

Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln - Claudio Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Lamento d'Arianna (1985)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 67:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 415 296-2 | Recorded: 1978, 1979

« On retrouve…le même élan, cette beauté sonore, cette profonde musicalité »… »la musique émouvante, déchirante jusqu’au dernier soupir. Le théâtre n’est pas loin, mais le drame se dessine à l’opposé de tout excès, de toute solllicitation dramatique ou émotive. Nigel Rogers chante…avec un sens de la prosodie, une clarté d’élocution et une sobriété de la ligne musicale ». –Opéra International

Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden (2022)

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Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden (2022)

Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden: Ives, Portman, Mahler, Marini, Copland, Valentini, Cavalli, Gluck, Wagner, Handel, Mysliveček (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 68:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato| # 0190296465154 | Recorded: 2021

"EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots. It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us, to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being. It is a clarion call to contemplate if our collective suffering isn't perhaps linked to the aching separation from something primal within and around us. This is a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new EDEN from within." - Joyce DiDonato

Rinaldo Alessandini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves (2021)

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Rinaldo Alessandini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves (2021)

Rinaldo Alessandini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 61:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 7366 | Recorded: 2020

This new recording is like an insert between the books of madrigals that mark the course of Rinaldo Alessandrini’s discography, in his long-term progress towards a complete recorded edition. Daylight is a continuation of Night, which appeared on the occasion of the 350th Anniversary of the composer’s birth. Not only do we have the same thematic, non- chronological concept - a sort of ‘Best Of’ Monteverdi’s nine books of madrigals and opera arias, augmented by instrumental pieces by Falconieri and Marini - but it also has its own discrete dramaturgy, from dawn to the full sunlight of day, a scenario conceived by the Italian conductor and harpsichordist.

Enrico Onofri, Ensemble Imaginarium - Into Nature: Vivaldi Seasons (2019)

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Enrico Onofri, Ensemble Imaginarium - Into Nature: Vivaldi Seasons (2019)

Enrico Onofri, Ensemble Imaginarium - Into Nature: Vivaldi Seasons (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 62:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1062 | Recorded: 2018

25 years after the revolutionary recording with Il Giardino Armonico, Enrico Onofri presents a new exciting version of Vivaldi's Le quattro Stagioni on PASSACAILLE, in which he has put all his artistic maturity and knowledge into practice. The focus of the recording is not only on Vivaldi. Onofri also wanted to pay tribute to Mother Nature, who has inspired artists of all genres with her sounds, images, smells and wonders. The selected pieces that accompany the Evergreen come from the Italian repertoire of the 17th century.

Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini: Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi [11CDs] (2006)

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Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini: Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi [11CDs] (2006)

Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini: Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi [11CDs] (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.26 Gb | Total time: 11:17:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564 63264-2 | Recorded: 1991-2000

For fans of Il Giardino Armonico's flamboyant flourishes and exuberant expressiveness, it's like having all your birthdays at once, being presented with this great Warner Classics 11 CD set. My own feeling is that this "free" approach to Baroque music is at its best when applied to the theatrical music of disc 8 or the seventeenth century Italian music on disc 1. The showmanship and playfulness is an absolute joy in many of those pieces. I'm less satisfied with the interpretations of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, (on discs 10 and 11), which require a different approach, I feel. I like my Bach to be a little more measured and subtle, I suppose. It has no need of the Il Giardino Armonico treatment. On the whole, though, I do love this set and wouldn't be without it.

Daniel Cuiller, Stradivaria - A tre violini: Trois violons dans les cours d'Europe au XVIIe siècle (2002)

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Daniel Cuiller, Stradivaria - A tre violini: Trois violons dans les cours d'Europe au XVIIe siècle (2002)

Daniel Cuiller, Stradivaria - A tre violini: Trois violons dans les cours d'Europe au XVIIe siècle (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 56:04 | Scans included
Classical | Cypres | # CYP 1633 | Recorded: 2002

Around the start of the seventeenth century musical style in Europe underwent a remarkable transformation. During the first decades of the Baroque era, instrumental music underwent a deep transformation, the violin being central in the process. Composers, who were themselves violinists, expanded the technical limits of the instrument, developing a form of virtuosity with the bow that was very swiftly followed by an improvement of left-hand technique. The music for three violins and bass selected for this recording is typical of a XVIIth Century genre which disappeared rather quickly afterwards, although some remarkable works were still to be composed during the XVIIIth century. This selection, which borrows this repertoire to many different European countries, presents some of the most delighful Sonata's, ballets, chaconnes, fantasias, sinfonias and canon written.

Brice Sailly, Stéphanie de Failly, Clematis - Quattro Violini a Venezia (2019)

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Brice Sailly, Stéphanie de Failly, Clematis - Quattro Violini a Venezia (2019)

Brice Sailly, Stéphanie de Failly, Clematis - Quattro Violini a Venezia: Gabrieli, Marini, Fontana, Castello, Cavalli, Uccellini, Buonamente (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 64:35 | Scans included
Classical | Ricercar | RIC 404 | Recorded: 2018

Although the first violin virtuosos came mainly from Cremona, Brescia or Mantua, it was Venice that swiftly emerged as the principal centre for the development of instrumental music. Moreover, it was there that most collections of this music were printed all through the seventeenth century. It is curious to note that all these virtuosos obviously enjoyed sharing their success with their colleagues: for, alongside works for one or two violins and continuo, almost all the composer-violinists gathered together on this disc conceived sonate, canzone or sinfonie for ensembles of three or four violins. In addition, these compositions often make use of bichoral or echo effects.

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Passions: Venezia 1600-1750 (2019)

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Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Passions: Venezia 1600-1750 (2019)

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Passions: Venezia 1600-1750 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 75:33 | Scans included
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | HMM 902632 | Recorded: 2018

The transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque eras did not mark one sudden change of forms or styles, nor did it signal the end of what Claudio Monteverdi called the prima pratica, or the primary practice of Renaissance polyphony. However, a new emphasis on powerful emotional expressions became a central feature of what he dubbed the seconda pratica, which came to the fore with the development of opera, most notably in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607. Composers paid special attention to the innovations in the music of Venice, which eventually spread throughout Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries, and such figures as Monteverdi, Antonio Lotti, and Antonio Caldara, long associated with the city, became exemplars of the new Venetian style, in both secular and sacred music.