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Ecclesia Nova - G.B. Martini: Musiche per il triduo in onore del beato Giuseppe da Copertino (Roma, 1753) (2024)

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Ecclesia Nova - G.B. Martini: Musiche per il triduo in onore del beato Giuseppe da Copertino (Roma, 1753) (2024)

Ecclesia Nova, Concerto Romano & Alessandro Quarta - G.B. Martini: Musiche per il triduo in onore del beato Giuseppe da Copertino (Roma, 1753) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 215 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:46:11
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Tactus

The fame of Father Giambattista Martini is largely due to the activity as a historiographer, theoretician and teacher of music unceasingly carried out by him in the Bolognese convent of S. Francesco: his monumental Storia della musica, the first history of music ever written in Italian and published in Italy, was hailed by the most distinguished personalities of that period, who unanimously praised his deep erudition; and a great number of young composers and musicographers from all over Europe, wishing to learn the secrets of this art, stopped in Bologna to receive a training or perfect their knowledge under his guidance.

Alessandro Quarta, Dino De Palma and Gianna Fratta & Gianna Fratta - Sixteen Seasons (2022)

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Alessandro Quarta, Dino De Palma and Gianna Fratta & Gianna Fratta - Sixteen Seasons (2022)

Alessandro Quarta, Dino De Palma and Gianna Fratta & Gianna Fratta - Sixteen Seasons (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 679 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 347 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:29:13
Classical | Label: Arcana, Outhere Music

After its rediscovery in the second half of the 20th century, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has become so popular that it has become a model of inspiration for similar collections that have the same subject matter, use similar instrumental forces and, often, are commissioned to be played alongside the original. Issued in conjunction with the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Astor Piazzolla (4 July 1992), Sixteen Seasons brings together on disc for the first time the four most famous Four Seasons : hence alongside Vivaldi’s Italian concertos, also the Argentinian Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas of Piazzolla (in the version by Leonid Desyatnikov, a composer of Ukrainian origin), The American Four Seasons of Philip Glass, and the “Vivaldi recompositions” of British Max Richter. To guide us through these seasons – which are spread over different continents, climates and musical styles – is Concerto Mediterraneo, an ensemble made up of musicians from all over Italy and directed by Gianna Fratta, while the eclectic Alessandro Quarta shares the solo violin role with Dino De Palma. The liner notes by historian Alessandro Vanoli and meteorologist Luca Mercalli complete a project that also stands as a reflection on the profound relationship between man and the alternation of the seasons and the role played by climate change from Vivaldi’s day to the present.

Alessandro Quarta, Reate Festival Baroque Ensemble - Alessandro Melani: L'empio punito (2020)

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Alessandro Quarta, Reate Festival Baroque Ensemble - Alessandro Melani: L'empio punito (2020)

Alessandro Quarta, Reate Festival Baroque Ensemble - Alessandro Melani: L'empio punito (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 673 Mb | Total time: 71:25+58:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS7871 | Recorded: 2019

L’Empio Punito is a dramma per musica in three acts composed by Alessandro Melani, on a libretto by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni, based on Filippo Acciaiuoli’s adaptation of El burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de piedra (1616) by Tirso da Molina. It was premiered in 1669 and this release features the first performance in modern times that took place at Teatro di Villa Torlonia in Rome in October 2019, 350 years after its debut. Acrimante, the male protagonist of l’Empio Punito, can be considered the first Don Giovanni in the history of opera. His seductive power brings chaos and pain in the lives of the other characters but a lot of energy as well. Although Melani was at the beginning of his career as an operatic composer – he wrote mainly sacred music – in L’empio punito he proves to be very skilful in alternating lyrical moments and pure recitative, and in introducing at the right moment dramatic recitatives that interrupt the course of the arias.

Alessandro Quarta, Concerto Romano - Bernardo Pasquini: La sete di Christo (2015)

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Alessandro Quarta, Concerto Romano - Bernardo Pasquini: La sete di Christo (2015)

Alessandro Quarta, Concerto Romano - Bernardo Pasquini: La sete di Christo (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 315 Mb | Total time: 66:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | CRH77398 | Recorded: 2015

The importance of the musician Bernardo Pasquini is well known to all those who dedicate themselves to the study of the harpsichord or organ. They frequently encounter his compositions, which are of such fundamental importance for the development of late-baroque Italian music for keyboard instruments. His vocal music, on the other hand, consisting primarily of cantatas, operas and oratorios, is far less known. But it includes true gems of vocal art from the late Roman Seicento.