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Violin Concertos from Szymanowski and Prokofiev....

The very beautiful music of Josquin, here represented by his L'homme armé Masses....

Italian concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and Marcello played by Italians....





....wonderful music and music making!

The Philip Glass opera Akhnaten....





....contains some beautiful music, both vocal and instrumental.

fergus wrote:

How can I put this? Well, I think Symphonia Domestica is Strauss´less worthy composition.
The Burleske on the other hand is fun.

Cecilia Bartoli´s new recital comes with a beautifully illustrated and well written booklet. It is also interesting: it tracks some of the first Italian opera composers working in St. Petersburg in the mid XVIII Century. Bartoli starts with an aria by Neapolitan Francesco Araia, the first kapellmeister to Catherine the Great. It´s a slow piece charmingly done, one even gets a flashback of early Bartoli when she was truly adorable, but as soon as the bravura arias start popping out we get the more familiar late Bartoli, AK47 coloratura relentlessly shot at you without mercy.
If you don´t mind late Bartoli, this is one of her better recitals in the last 8 years or so. She gets exquisite support from the luxurious Swiss group I Barocchisti and their conductor Diego Fasolis.
There is some interesting never before recorded music here though.

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello worked as a composer and violinist in Germany and Italy. There are not many recordings of his music, I only remember an instrumental CD first issued by Harmonia Mundi and later reissued in Glossa but not much else. But this delightful pastoral opera is quite a discovery, it just bursts with musical invention, and the performance is terrific. I can´t recall this group Il Gusto Barocco, but they do very well here. Strongly recommended.

Jose Echenique wrote:

fergus wrote:

How can I put this? Well, I think Symphonia Domestica is Strauss´less worthy composition.
The Burleske on the other hand is fun.

I admire your self restraint Pepe LOL!!! You were very tactful and diplomatic!

Jose Echenique wrote:

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello worked as a composer and violinist in Germany and Italy. There are not many recordings of his music, I only remember an instrumental CD first issued by Harmonia Mundi and later reissued in Glossa but not much else. But this delightful pastoral opera is quite a discovery, it just bursts with musical invention, and the performance is terrific. I can´t recall this group Il Gusto Barocco, but they do very well here. Strongly recommended.

I have only one CD of Brescianello's works in my collection Pepe....





Enjoyable and recommended.

The one that you have posted looks interesting.