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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.

Anna Bonitatibus, Federico Ferri, Accademia degli Astrusi, La Stagione Armonica - Semiramide, La Signora Regale (2014)

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Anna Bonitatibus, Federico Ferri, Accademia degli Astrusi, La Stagione Armonica - Semiramide, La Signora Regale (2014)

Anna Bonitatibus, Federico Ferri, Accademia degli Astrusi, La Stagione Armonica - Semiramide, La Signora Regale (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 437 Mb | Total time: 90:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88725479862 | Recorded: 2013

Anna Bonitatibus (born in Potenza) is an Italian mezzo-soprano. She is one of the most wanted mezzo-sopranos of our time, admired in particular for her interpretations of roles by Rossini and Mozart. The music on this new album spans from 18th century (Jommelli, Caldara, Porpora) until early 19th century (Meyerbeer, Rossini, Garcia). Most of the arias and scenes are WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS. Some pieces are even performed for the first time after more than 150 years. ANNA BONITATIBUS is one of the best mezzo-sopranos of our time, well trained in performing in a "historically informed" manner. A very special highlight: A Semiramide aria (“Preghiera”) by Manuel Garcia. He has been the first Almaviva in Rossini's “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”. He was an amazing composer as well: he composed a Semiramide after Rossini that everybody considered lost. The score was discovered and newly edited by Anna Bonitatibus.

Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)

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Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)

Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 3,57+6,60 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 168 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Korean

La Partenope is a rich and colourful production, superbly performed here by I Turchini Orchestra and conductor Antonio Florio, world-renowned specialists of Baroque repertoire. In this version comic intermezzi have been added, as was customary in the eighteenth century.

Cecilia Bartoli - Queen of Baroque (2020)

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Cecilia Bartoli - Queen of Baroque (2020)

Cecilia Bartoli - Queen of Baroque (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 366 Mb | Total time: 78:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 1275 | Recorded: 1991-2017

A collection of the very best of Bartoli's treasured recordings of musical delights and discoveries of the 17th and 18th century. Featuring two previously unreleased world premiere recordings of forgotten jewels by Leonardo Vinci and Agostino Steffani. With guest appearances from Philippe Jaroussky, June Anderson, Franco Fagioli and Sol Gabetta.

Antonio Florio, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo - Leonardo Vinci: Siroe, Re di Persia (2019)

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Antonio Florio, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo - Leonardo Vinci: Siroe, Re di Persia (2019)

Antonio Florio, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo - Leonardo Vinci: Siroe, Re di Persia (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 875 Mb | Total time: 63:32+55:51+39:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS7838 | Recorded: 2018

Based on a ponderous libretto by Metastasio (who defined his own work as “stellar”) Leonardo Vinci’s dramma per musica was premiered in Venice in 1726 and was triumphantly acclaimed. Since then, Siroe, Re di Persia was put to music by composers such as Vivaldi, Handel, Hasse, and Galuppi, to mention just a few. The story uses some of the elements of the plot of Partenope, almost as if it were a sequel moved to Persia. Siroe’s plot revolves around a family mystery mingled with passions, traitors en travesti, fatherly affection and filial honesty that echoes Shakespeare’s King Lear. Performed in concert version at Teatro San Carlo of Naples in 2018, this rare opera was chosen to open the theatre’s 281st season. Conductor Antonio Florio , specialist of the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire, revised the score.

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.

Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Arion Orchestre Baroque - Prima Donna: Handel, Vinci, Vivaldi (2012)

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Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Arion Orchestre Baroque - Prima Donna: Handel, Vinci, Vivaldi (2012)

Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Arion Orchestre Baroque - Prima Donna: Handel, Vinci, Vivaldi (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 74:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Atma Classique | # ACD2 2648 | Recorded: 2012

Canadian superstar soprano Karina Gauvin pays tribute to baroque diva Anna Maria Strada del Pò, singing rarities by Vinci, Vivaldi and some of the greatest Handel arie di bravura. Like Strada del Pò in her prime, Miss Gauvin sings this repertoire with powerful expression and brilliant technique, in particular, the trills for which Strada del Pò was renowned. More than thirteen opera roles were created by Handel for Strada del Pò (including Sosarme, Orlando, and Alcina). Strada del Pò’s talent and style may have influenced the composer’s work as much as he contributed to the vocal and dramatic development of the prima donna in the first decades of the 18th century.

Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic [3CDs] (2016)

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Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic [3CDs] (2016)

Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0.97 Gb | Total time: 75:31+78:36+80:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0190295904722 | Recorded: 1992, 1993, 2007-2012

Even in an age of thrilling countertenors, Max Emanuel Cencic stands out for the heroic scale and brilliance of his voice, his expansive lyricism, and his imagination and enterprise in choice of repertoire. Cencic has excelled as both a soprano and a mezzo-soprano, and Fantastic Cencic showcases his extraordinary interpretative range – from the great and lesser-known masters of the Baroque to the bel canto of Rossini and composers of the Romantic era from Schubert to Strauss. The third of these three CDs comprises recordings from the early 1990s, shortly after Cencic left the Wiener Sängerknaben, which are released here for the first time.

Samuel Mariño, Filippo Mineccia, Valer Sabadus - Les 3 Contre-Ténors: Le Concours de Virtuosité des Castrats (2021)

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Samuel Mariño, Filippo Mineccia, Valer Sabadus - Les 3 Contre-Ténors: Le Concours de Virtuosité des Castrats (2021)

Samuel Mariño, Filippo Mineccia, Valer Sabadus, Stefan Plewniak, Orchestre de lʼOpéra Royal - Les 3 Contre-Ténors: Le Concours de Virtuosité des Castrats (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 384 Mb | Total time: 72:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS050 | Recorded: 2021

Les Castrats furent les premières « stars » de l'histoire de la musique. Ils tenaient souvent le rôle-titre (et à Rome tous les rôles féminins des opéras), créant sur le plateau une véritable compétition de virtuosité et d'émotion entre les chanteurs, dont le public était l'arbitre par ses demandes de bis. Et si trois des meilleurs interprètes de notre temps faisaient eux aussi ce Concours de Virtuosité ? Voici Valer Sabadus (Arad, 1986), Filippo Mineccia (Florence, 1981), et Samuel Mariño (Caracas, 1993). Airs virtuoses, duos d'amour et trios combatifs faisaient triompher les Castrats : à chacun de trouver son vainqueur !

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.

Diego Fasolis, Concerto Köln - Leonardo Vinci: Artaserse (2014)

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Diego Fasolis, Concerto Köln - Leonardo Vinci: Artaserse (2014)

Diego Fasolis, Concerto Köln - Leonardo Vinci: Artaserse (2014)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 4,94+7,49 Gb (2xDVD9) | 201 min
Classical | Erato | Sub.: Italiano, Francais, English, Deutsch

“This magnificent production is a complete and blissful success. Don’t miss it.” Those were the words of the French website Classique News when Leonardo Vinci’s rediscovered Artaserse was staged by Silviu Purcãrete at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy. Complementing the CD version of the opera released in Autumn 2012, this DVD features no fewer than five of the world’s leading countertenors – assuming both male and female roles: Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli, Valer Barna-Sabadus and Yuriy Mynenko.

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)

Hélène Brunet, Eric Milnes, L’Harmonie des saisons - Solfeggio: Handel, Vivaldi, Vinci, Bach, Mozart (2020)

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Hélène Brunet, Eric Milnes, L’Harmonie des saisons - Solfeggio: Handel, Vivaldi, Vinci, Bach, Mozart (2020)

Hélène Brunet, Eric Milnes, L’Harmonie des saisons - Solfeggio: Handel, Vivaldi, Vinci, Bach, Mozart (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 63:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Atma Classique | # ATMA 22808 | Recorded: 2020

For her first solo album with ATMA Classique, the celebrated Canadian soprano Hélène Brunet has chosen baroque and classical arias that have always been part of her life and for which she feels a deep affinity. Under the direction of Eric Milnes, the period ensemble L'Harmonie des saisons accompanies her in this program featuring music by Bach Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart and Leonardo Vinci, whose two arias are recorded here as world premieres. I remember being completely enamored, at fifteen, with Vivaldis famous aria Nulla in mundo pax sincera, attempting head voice singing for the first time and discovering the peculiar lightheaded effects of this new vocal technique.

Ian Bostridge, Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Tormento d'amore (2022)

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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Tormento d'amore (2022)

Ian Bostridge, Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Tormento d'amore (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 329 Mb | Total time: 68:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190295037079 | Recorded: 2020

With the 10 arias on Tormento d'amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century - often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, Sartorio and Legrenzi were active, and Naples, home to Provenzale, Caresana, Vinci and Fago. In addition to arias - two of them in world premiere recordings - the album offers five instrumental sinfonie and a traditional Neapolitan song, 'Lu cardillo', or 'The Goldfinch', a songbird closely associated with Naples. Bostridge is partnered by conductor Antonio Florio and his ensemble Cappella Neapolitana.

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.