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Marie Lys, Andrea Buccarella, Abchordis Ensemble - Amate Stelle: Arias for Anna Maria Strada (2023)

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Marie Lys, Andrea Buccarella, Abchordis Ensemble - Amate Stelle: Arias for Anna Maria Strada (2023)

Marie Lys, Andrea Buccarella, Abchordis Ensemble - Amate Stelle: Arias for Anna Maria Strada (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 409 Mb | Total time: 75:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923536 | Recorded: 2019

The young Swiss soprano Marie Lys was pleasantly surprised to discover that many of the roles she has sung in George Frideric Handel’s works in recent years were written for the spectacularly virtuoso soprano Anna Maria Strada, Handel’s prima donna in the London of the 1730s. Accompanied by the Abchordis Ensemble and Andrea Buccarella, the group’s conductor and harpsichordist, Marie Lys decided to dedicate her first solo CD on Glossa to “La Stradina”, with an in-depth study of Anna Maria’s life on stage and the extraordinary vocal skills her roles demanded.

Kah-Ming Ng, Charivari Agreable - Avanti l'Opera: An A-Z of Italian Baroque Overtures (2014)

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Kah-Ming Ng, Charivari Agreable - Avanti l'Opera: An A-Z of Italian Baroque Overtures (2014)

Kah-Ming Ng, Charivari Agréable - Avanti l'Opera: An A-Z of Italian Baroque Overtures (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 315 Mb | Total time: 63:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD383 | Recorded: 2013

Charivari Agreable perform a collection of overtures from the Italian Baroque Opera, best described by director Kah-Ming Ng as lucidly crafted for the purpose of turning heads. In a decadent era when the theatregoers antics were often as intriguing as the on-stage performances, these works were composed to thrill, beguile and engage a distracted audience. Charivari Agreable represent a new and very exciting phase of the early music revival, one that enriches the existing repertory and can bring us ever closer to the spirit of the original music.

Ann Hallenberg, Stefano Montanari, Il Pomo d'Oro - Carnevale 1729 (2017)

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Ann Hallenberg, Stefano Montanari, Il Pomo d'Oro - Carnevale 1729 (2017)

Ann Hallenberg, Stefano Montanari, Il Pomo d'Oro - Carnevale 1729: Giacomelli, Orlandini, Albinoni, Porpora, Leo, Vinci (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 535 Mb | Total time: 52:21+46:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC5186678 | Recorded: 2016

The Carnival of Venice in 1729 was quite unlike any other. Over a period of two months, opera houses went into a frenzy of competition to show off the most famous singers of the day, including the legendary castrato Farinelli who made his astonishing Venetian debut. Several of the most fashionable composers rose to the occasion, writing ravishing music for spectacular productions which often pitted the singers against each other in breathtaking displays of virtuosity. The results were sensational; one tour de force followed another in an atmosphere of fevered excitement and the adoring public lapped it up.

Hidemi Suzuki, Makoto Akatsu, Orchestra 'Van Wassenaer' - Leonardo Leo: Six Cello Concertos (2000)

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Hidemi Suzuki, Makoto Akatsu, Orchestra 'Van Wassenaer' - Leonardo Leo: Six Cello Concertos (2000)

Hidemi Suzuki, Makoto Akatsu, Orchestra 'Van Wassenaer' - Leonardo Leo: Six Cello Concertos (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 432 Mb | Total time: 79:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1057 | Recorded: 1999

It won't do to claim the cello concertos of Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) as unknown masterpieces. But if you enjoy hearing a composer struggle with musical materials in an era of transition (might be relevant to today's scene, eh?), you'll find these interesting. Leo was posthumously praised by both Charles Burney and E.T.A. Hoffmann, but today he is known vaguely, if at all, as one of the forerunners of Classical-era opera.

Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

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Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 540 Mb | Total time: 65:55+57:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5295 | Recorded: 2011

The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello. In the eighteenth century, 1,300 years after the last Olympic Games in ancient times, the Olympic theme was highly fashionable. Many composers based operas on the libretto L'Olimpiade by Metastasio. This recording has been structured to contain all of Metastasio’s original arias; it is a pasticcio in the sense that the music is by 16 different composers amongst the many that set the libretto between 1733 and the end of the century.

Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Sacrificium (2009)

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Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Sacrificium (2009)

Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Sacrificium: Porpora, Caldara, Araia, Graun, Leo, Vinci, Broschi, Giacomelli, Handel (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 468 Mb | Total time: 77:55+21:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 478 1521 | Recorded: 2009

"The age of the castratos was one of the most dazzling and remarkable in European music history. Seldom has there ever been such a complete fusion of sensuousness and splendor, form and content, poetry and music, and, above all, such a perfection of vocal virtuosity, as was achieved in the glory days of the Baroque era. The legendary art of the castratos continues to exert its fascination even today, and despite the great human sacrifice it exacted, a new assessment of this extraordinary period is surely justified." - Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli uncovers the extraordinary and cruel world of the `Castrati' and sings the glorious music they inspired. The all-new album consists almost entirely of world-premiere recordings of some of the most virtuosic music ever written for the human voice.

Simone Kermes, La Magnifica Comunità - Dramma (2012)

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Simone Kermes, La Magnifica Comunità - Dramma (2012)

Simone Kermes, La Magnifica Comunità - Dramma (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 406 Mb | Total time: 77.08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 8 86919 63952 | Recorded: 2012

The first half of the 18th century saw an insatiable demand for new opera seria, or dramma per musica, in Venice, Rome, Milan and, principally, London, where composer and teacher Nicola Porpora ran the Opera of the Nobility, putting poor Handel very firmly (though temporarily) in the shade. This collection of castrato arias includes six astonishing discoveries, many recorded for the first time, from Porpora, Johann Aldolf Hasse and Giuseppe de Majo, sung by the beguilingly agile Simone Kermes with delightfully pungent playing from La Magnifica Comunità.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Sandrine Piau, Christopher Lowrey - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2020)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Sandrine Piau, Christopher Lowrey - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2020)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Sandrine Piau, Christopher Lowrey - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Porpora: Salve Regina; Leo: Beatus vir (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 66:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA449 | Recorded: 2019

Longstanding partners Sandrine Piau and Christophe Rousset have frequently performed the Stabat Mater, an emblematic work of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan repertory, both together and with other musicians. It was therefore a natural step for them to record this supreme masterpiece of sacred music. They are joined here by a relative newcomer to Les Talens Lyriques who has also become a regular partner with the ensemble, the American countertenor Christopher Lowrey (already heard on an Alpha disc devoted to Monteverdi, Alpha 216).

Simone Kermes, Claudio Osele, Le Musiche Nove - Lava: Opera Arias from 18th Century Napoli (2009)

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Simone Kermes, Claudio Osele, Le Musiche Nove - Lava: Opera Arias from 18th Century Napoli  (2009)

Simone Kermes, Claudio Osele, Le Musiche Nove - Lava: Opera Arias from 18th Century Napoli (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 76:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi| # 88697 54121 2 | Recorded: 2008

LAVA is a collection of rediscovered opera gems from 18th century Naples, performed by soprano Simone Kermes and the period instrument ensemble Le Musiche Nove. Musical direction is by Claudio Osele, the Italian musicologist and conductor who worked with Cecilia Bartoli on four of her successful concept albums, including the Grammy-winning Vivaldi and Gluck releases for which he delivered the concept and prepared the performing editions. Naples and Versuvius provide the linking theme between all of the pieces, nine of which are world premiere recordings (all tracks except those by Pergolesi)

Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Leonardo Leo: Salve Regina (1995)

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Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Leonardo Leo: Salve Regina (1995)

Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Leonardo Leo: Salve Regina (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 268 Mb | Total time: 58:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OPS 30-88 | Recorded: 1993

Pergolesi’s two settings of the Salve Regina are rather different one from another. That in C minor is darker, more passionate, the string writing (not least at the very beginning) richly expressive; indeed the first of its six movements, is a largo of exquisite beauty, a perfect illustration of a particular kind of baroque beauty, intensely expressive and seeming to hold back a freedom of lyricism which is effectively liberated only in the brief andante which follows. Some of the greatest baroque effects are created by interplay between restraint and excess. This is one of them.

Vito Paternoster, Leonardo Leo Orchestra - Leonardo Leo: Diana Amante (2001)

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Vito Paternoster, Leonardo Leo Orchestra - Leonardo Leo: Diana Amante (2001)

Vito Paternoster, Leonardo Leo Orchestra - Leonardo Leo: Diana Amante (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 570 Mb | Total time: 56:11+57:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bongiovanni | # GB 10019/20-2 | Recorded: 1988

Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (current San Vito dei Normanni, province of Brindisi), then part of the Kingdom of Naples.
He became a student at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini at Naples in 1703, and was a pupil first of Francesco Provenzale and later of Nicola Fago. It has been supposed that he was a pupil of Pitoni and Alessandro Scarlatti, but he could not possibly have studied with either of these composers, although he was undoubtedly influenced by their compositions. His earliest known work was a sacred drama, L'infedelta abbattuta, performed by his fellow-students in 1712.

Franco Fagioli, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - Arias for Caffarelli (2013)

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Franco Fagioli, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - Arias for Caffarelli (2013)

Franco Fagioli, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - Arias for Caffarelli (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 417 Mb | Total time: 78:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V5333 | Recorded: 2012

Naples in 1750 was one of the ten biggest cities in the world, and it spawned two of the biggest musical stars of the era: the castrati Farinelli and the much lesser known Caffarelli, whose real name was Gaetano Majorano. This release consists of arias written for Caffarelli, and you might treasure it for the flamboyant, high-volume singing of countertenor Franco Fagioli, who arguably comes as close as any of his contemporaries to conveying what the high-powered sound of the castrati was like (in the understandable absence of the genuine article). Or, you might be grateful to hear the music associated with Caffarelli, who in his own time had a reputation for being troublesome and has generally ignored by the historical opera revival movement.

Federica Napoletani, Cristina Corrieri, Ensemble Imaginaire - Leo, Pergolesi, Porpora: Salve Regina (2020)

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Federica Napoletani, Cristina Corrieri, Ensemble Imaginaire - Leo, Pergolesi, Porpora: Salve Regina (2020)

Federica Napoletani, Cristina Corrieri, Ensemble Imaginaire - Leo, Pergolesi, Porpora: Salve Regina (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 61:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96092 | Recorded: 2018

The four Salve Regina recordings presented on this uniquely compiled new album cross the boundary between opera house and church a boundary that in 18th-century Naples was never very forbidding to begin with. In fact, Leo, Pergolesi and Porpora are all fine examples of composers who moved with unselfconscious facility between sacred and secular genres, between old counterpoint and the Monteverdian stile concertato that caressed each word with sensuous melismas and velvet harmonies. Porpora was a noted singing teacher of his day, intimately familiar with everything that a voice can do, and possessing a melodic skill that spins long and ornate vocal phrases of almost instrumental effect.

Ensemble Turicum - Pergolesi: Messa a 5 voci; Leo: Sinfonia "Il Demetrio"; Gallassi: Te Deum; Perez: Trio (2004)

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Ensemble Turicum - Pergolesi: Messa a 5 voci; Leo: Sinfonia "Il Demetrio"; Gallassi: Te Deum; Perez: Trio (2004)

Ensemble Turicum - Pergolesi: Messa a 5 voci; Leo: Sinfonia "Il Demetrio"; Gallassi: Te Deum; Perez: Trio (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 57:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K617 | # K617159 | Recorded: 2003

The world has not yet fully discovered the riches of the impressive music libraries and archives of Portugal. They testify to the often complex trajectories followed all over Europe by a repertoire of splendid pieces, many of them showing the extent to which the Italian style had taken root in eighteenth-century Portugal. The superb mass by Pergolesi recorded here is a highly characteristic example. But the ensemble Turicum wanted to go even further in their exploration of this repertoire, accompanying the mass with performances of works by composers now totally (and unjustly) unknown, such as Antonio Gallassi and David Perez, not to mention Leonardo leo, acknowledged in his own time as a supreme master of sacred music.

Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2009)

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Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2009)

Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 3.76 + 6.53 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 165 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

WORLD PREMIERE in modern times of an unknown comic opera which was recently rediscovered along with other three other Leo operas at the Abbey of Montecassino. L Alidoro (Golden Wings) is a lost-and-found story which explores the themes of love and jealousy from different perspectives in particular age and social status interweaving comedy with more serious reflections. Director Arturo Cirillo explains how in this opera, nothing is happening except a subtle and gorgeous relational game among the seven protagonists.