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Les Canards Chantants, Acronym - Giovanni Valentini: Secondo Libro de Madrigali (2016)

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Les Canards Chantants, Acronym - Giovanni Valentini: Secondo Libro de Madrigali (2016)

Les Canards Chantants, Acronym - Giovanni Valentini: Secondo Libro de Madrigali (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 329 Mb | Total time: 67:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Olde Focus Recordings | # FCR908 | Recorded: 2015

Brilliant and moving"" vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants and ""groundbreaking, gutsy"" (Early Music America Magazine) Baroque string band ACRONYM present the first recording of Giovanni Valentini's ""Secondo libro de madrigali"" (Venice, 1616)the earliest known madrigal collection to call for instruments other than continuoexactly four hundred years after its publication. Giovanni Valentini was born in 1582 in or around Venice. In 1614 he joined the court of the Archduke Ferdinand at Graz, and upon Ferdinands 1619 election Vaneltini moved to Vienna to serve as Imperial organist. From the 1620s through the 1640s, Valentini oversaw much of the musical life of Vienna. He was music tutor to the Imperial family and retained his position of Hofkapellmeister under Ferdinand III, who took the throne in 1637.

Annegret Siedel, Bell'arte Salzburg - Andreas Hofer: Musikalische Vesper (2007)

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Annegret Siedel, Bell'arte Salzburg - Andreas Hofer: Musikalische Vesper (2007)

Annegret Siedel, Bell'arte Salzburg - Andreas Hofer: Musikalische Vesper (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 57:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Cantate | # C 58030 | Recorded: 2006

With the flood of recordings devoted to the freethinking Salzburg Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, it is not surprising that his predecessor as Salzburg music director, Andreas Hofer, has been resurrected. There is nothing here to rival Biber's outlandish and fascinating programmatic ideas; Hofer's sacred music, as represented on this disc, falls much closer to the Venetian-derived German mainstream inherited from Schütz. That said, this is an ideal purchase for anyone who likes Schütz, Biber, or the south German Baroque in general. The album reproduces a hypothetical Vespers service of the area, featuring the music Hofer, as kapellmeister, might have drawn together for a festive event – mostly his own, but also including works by Biber, Giovanni Valentini, and Johann Baptist Dolar.

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

Roland Wilson, La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata - Giovanni Valentini: Musiche Concertate 1619 (2011)

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Roland Wilson, La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata - Giovanni Valentini: Musiche Concertate 1619 (2011)

Roland Wilson, La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata - Giovanni Valentini: Musiche Concertate 1619 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 58:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 533-2 | Recorded: 2009

In 1619 Valentini’s Musiche concertate were published as his third book of madrigals, and already by 1626, when he was appointed court music director in Vienna (a post held by him until his death), he had achieved more than just a personal career goal. Just as Lully defined the French national style, Valentini’s manner was identified with the imperial court style.

Lambert Colson, InAlto - Cavalieri Imperiali: Zenobi & Sansoni, the Great Cornetto Masters (2020)

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Lambert Colson, InAlto - Cavalieri Imperiali: Zenobi & Sansoni, the Great Cornetto Masters (2020)

Lambert Colson, InAlto - Cavalieri Imperiali: Zenobi & Sansoni, the Great Cornetto Masters (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 64:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC 419 | Recorded: 2019

Luigi Zenobi, a virtuoso cornetist known as Luigi del cornetto, was born in Ancona in the mid-sixteenth century. He later moved to Vienna, where he entered the service of the Emperor Maximilian II. His reputation grew and he subsequently worked for the Este family in Ferrara, where he was the most respected and best-paid musician at court up to that time, so sought-after were his talents. Luigi was also a painter, poet, miniaturist and music scholar. An eyewitness recalled the delicacy of his playing: softer than the harpsichord when its lid is closed. Giovanni Sansoni, a composer and cornetist probably originally from Venice, was born around 1593. He was engaged by Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Graz in 1613 and followed him to Vienna when he became Emperor in 1619.

Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)

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Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)

Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 378 Mb | Total time: 77:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Claves | # CD1805 | Recorded: 2016

17th Century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches – St. Elisabeth, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Bernardine – collected extensive music libraries. Their repertoire was shaped both by prints imported from Italy and Germany, and by works composed by local cantors and organists employed in church ensembles. A separate collection of nearly 400 prints from 1610–55 remained in private hands. During World War II, however, they were taken away from the city and dispersed after 1945. Some items have not been found until now. The majority of the prints returned to Wrocław. Numerous manusripts were considered lost until the late 1980s, when they reappeared in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. They found their way there from Moscow, where some items of the former Breslau library still remain.