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Olga Peretyatko, Ivor Bolton, Sinfonieorchester Basel - Mozart + (2019)

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Olga Peretyatko, Ivor Bolton, Sinfonieorchester Basel - Mozart + (2019)

Olga Peretyatko, Ivor Bolton, Sinfonieorchester Basel - Mozart + (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 60:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | 19075919052 | Recorded: 2019

Mozart+ is an exceptional selection of some of the most beautiful concert and opera arias by W.A. Mozart as well as discoveries of largely unknown arias from operas by Tommaso Traetta, Giovanni Paisiello and Vicente Martín y Soler, reflecting the exchange of musical ideas between Mozart and his contemporaries and getting these three composers out of Mozart's shadow.

Joan Enric Lluna, Moonwinds - Mozart: Gran Partita, El Rapto en el serrallo; Martín y Soler: Divertimento (2007)

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Joan Enric Lluna, Moonwinds - Mozart:  Gran Partita, El Rapto en el serrallo; Martín y Soler: Divertimento (2007)

Joan Enric Lluna, Moonwinds - Mozart: Gran Partita, El Rapto en el serrallo; Martín y Soler: Divertimento (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 389 Mb | Total time: 76:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMI987071 | Recorded: 2006

Along with his contemporaries, Mozart was often called upon to fulfil the aristocracy's musical requests destined for all kinds of society events. He, for sure, knew how to provide a much profounder dimension to any genre which did not normally have too many expectations placed upon it and the Gran Partita, without losing its playful aim, is a superb example of this. In a similar way, the Divertimentos of Martín y Soler on Una cosa rara, and of Went on Die Entführung aus dem Serail, fill out an accurate portrait of what was, in the 18th century, music meant for noble entertainment.

Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il Sogno; La Dora festeggiante (2010)

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Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il Sogno; La Dora festeggiante (2010)

Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il Sogno; La Dora festeggiante (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 446 Mb | Total time: 32:30+45:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCOC | # 1001.2 | Recorded: 2010

This CD from the Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara presents two cantatas by the Spanish composer Vicente Martín y Soler - Il Sogno and La Dora festeggiante. Il Sogno, written in 1787, is the only example of collaboration of between Martín y Soler and the great librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. These works are like a small fresco of this period of transformation. La Dora represents the end of a period, in which the Olympic gods serve as a model to human behavior, while Il Sogno, is, deep down, a pre-romantic spiritual work, in which the nymphs are no longer unattainable beings, beings that do not suffer or have human passions but on the contrary, they embody them, they live them in their own skin in spite of being in an idyllic place.

Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore (2012)

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Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore (2012)

Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid - Vicent Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 669 Mb | Total time: 79:06+57:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 580/1-2 | Recorded: 2007

The opera opened in 1786, the same year as Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro , and both were revived in Vienna three years later. In the revival of Il bubero di buon cuore , since Martín y Soler was then in the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Mozart wrote two new arias for Madama Lucilla. “Chi sa qual sia l’affano” and “Vado, ma dove, o Dei?,” which are beautifully sung on this recording by Véronique Gens, the first aria on CD 1, track 18, and the second on CD 2, track 4.

María Bayo, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Arias de Zarzuela barroca (2003)

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María Bayo, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Arias de Zarzuela barroca (2003)

María Bayo, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Arias de Zarzuela barroca (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 70:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | E 8885 | Recorded: 2002

When one approaches the music of the eighteenth century that was performed at the Spanish court of the Palacio de la Zarzuela (which in shortened from then gave the whole “zarzuela” genre its name), whether by composers born in Spain or by foreigners who had settled there, the first impression is one of surprise. For here we find ourselves confronted with magnificent music that follows Italianate models, like all works of the period, yet contributes original elements specific to the country that gave it birth: above all the theatrical style, the inclusion of characteristic rhythms, and the richness of the texts, taken from great writers of the time.

Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía de Ópera de Cámara - Vicente Martín y Soler: Ifigenia in Aulide (2006)

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Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía de Ópera de Cámara - Vicente Martín y Soler: Ifigenia in Aulide (2006)

Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía de Ópera de Cámara - Vicente Martín y Soler: Ifigenia in Aulide (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 507 Mb | Total time: 53:11+46:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K617 | # K617192/2 | Recorded: 2006

This doble CD contains the opera Ifigenia in Aulide by Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806), a Spanish opera composer whose European recognition rivalled that of Mozart —in 2004 the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birthday was celebrated. The libretto is based on a classical tragedy named after the Greek heroine Ifigenia. The action takes place in Troya in 1100 B.C. and among the characters are Ifigenia, Aquiles, Agamenón, Ulises, and Arcadia. The author of the libretto was Luigi Serio. This opera had not been represented since its premiere at San Carlo theatre in Naples in 1779. Its premier in Úbeda-Baeza was an important landmark in the first years of the Festival, due to the complexity of the production and the excellent artistic results.

Joan Enric Lluna, Moonwinds - Vicente Martín y Soler: Una cosa rara (2008)

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Joan Enric Lluna, Moonwinds - Vicente Martín y Soler: Una cosa rara (2008)

Joan Enric Lluna, Moonwinds - Vicente Martín y Soler: Una cosa rara (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 57:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902010 | Recorded: 2008

Vicente Martín y Soler, nicknamed ‘the Valencian Mozart’, was as famous in his own day as his Austrian contemporary. The ‘very rare thing’ depicted in his biggest success, the opera Una cosa rara, is the combination of beauty and honesty, in the person of a charming peasant girl! The work was arranged for wind ensemble by Johann Nepomuk Wendt, and Mozart quoted from it in Don Giovanni. This programme is completed by premiere recordings of three divertimenti.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Vicente Martín y Soler: La Capricciosa Corretta (2004)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Vicente Martín y Soler: La Capricciosa Corretta (2004)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Vicente Martín y Soler: La Capricciosa Corretta (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 644 Mb | Total time: 65:18+68:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # E 8887 | Recorded: 2003

Mozart's affectionate quotation from Martín y Soler's Una cosa rara in the Don Giovanni dinner music suggests he admired his Spanish contemporary, whose music was praised by others as 'sweet' and 'graceful'. Such descriptions remain apt for a charming and brilliantly executed performance that's essential for anybody curious about late 18th-century opera beyond Mozart.

Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid - Vicente Martín y Soler: Il Burbero di buon cuore (2009)

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Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid - Vicente Martín y Soler: Il Burbero di buon cuore (2009)

Christophe Rousset, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid - Vicente Martín y Soler: Il Burbero di buon cuore (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 5.63+4.23 Gb (DVD9+DVD5) | 140 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

The comedy in two acts, to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, is based on one of Carlo Goldoni's best-known and most amusing French comedies, Le bourru bienfaisant. The opera premiered with triumphant success on January 4, 1786 at the Vienna Burgtheater. Mozart liked the work so much that he composed two “substitute arias” for it, both of which found their way into this Teatro Real de Madrid production. The director Irina Brook, daughter of the well-known English director Peter Brook, made her debut at the Teatro Real with this production. She brings the plot to our time, mixing several styles and eras, which, together with Soler's light, cheerful music, makes the work really amusing evening entertainment.

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Libertà! Mozart & the Opera (2019)

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Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Libertà! Mozart & the Opera (2019)

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Libertà! Mozart & the Opera (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 522 Mb | Total time: 104:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM93263839 | Recorded: 2018

Between Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the advent of the famous ‘Da Ponte trilogy’, Mozart threw himself frantically into the search for the right libretto, capable of taking the spectator to lands still unexplored where the drama and the psychology of the characters would be sublimated by the music. Hence, in the years between 1782 and 1786, he set up a veritable laboratory for dramatic music: a musical corpus of concert arias, sketches, and stylistic exercises like the canon – here brilliantly organised as an imaginary dramma giocoso in three scenes, each heralding in its own way one of the summits to come: Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così.

Harry Bicket, Orchestra Simfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu - Martin y Soler: L’arbore di Diana (2010)

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Harry Bicket, Orchestra Simfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu - Martin y Soler: L’arbore di Diana (2010)

Harry Bicket, Orchestra Simfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu - Martín y Soler: L’arbore di Diana (2010)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.42 Gb (DVD9) | 147 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Catalan

L’arbore di Diana (The Tree of Diana), which was staged at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2009, is a two-act opera buffa by the composer Vicent Martín i Soler with a libretto by the famous Lorenzo Da Ponte. The opera focuses on the temptation and joy of falling in love. Though the plot includes features borrowed from the pastorale and erotic comedy, it also had political intentions and endorsed the abolition of convents and monasteries decreed by the emperor.

José Miguel Moreno - The Spanish Guitar [12CDs] (2019)

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José Miguel Moreno - The Spanish Guitar [12CDs] (2019)

José Miguel Moreno - The Spanish Guitar [12CDs] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,94 Gb | Total time: 13:10:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 920114 | Recorded: 1991-2004

With a capaciously-filled boxset of a dozen CDs made up of attractive individual programmes and entitled The Spanish Guitar, Glossa reintroduces the superb playing of José Miguel Moreno. And with recordings from 1991-2004 which still sound fresh and vivid today. A new essay and all the sung texts are included in the physical booklet that completes this limited-edition set.