Passacaille Records and cellist Elinor Frey, with harpsichordist Federica Bianchi, lutenist Giangiacomo Pinard, and cellist Mauro Valli, present the first recording of cello sonatas by Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710-1805). Dall’Abaco’s sonatas are full of cantabile melodies with the lightness of folk songs, passagework that demands brilliance and facility, and extraordinary slow movements...
The Leuven Chansonnier (1470–75) includes not only fifty compositions by such leading 15th century Franco-Flemish names as Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys and Firminus Caron but also twelve newly rediscovered works that exist in no other source. The Ensemble Sollazzo here brings a selection of this music to life in an interpretation that is both brilliant and refreshing.
At the beginning of the 17th century, music in Italy underwent a radical change. From the first experimental attempts in Florence to revive the musical practice of Greek antiquity, which had not been handed down in detail, the genre of the monody developed, in which the singer could finally express all the nuances of the text (the "affects"), freed from the strict constraints of polyphony. To...
Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750) was born in Napels, worked in Barcelona and moved on to Vienna where he worked at the imperial court till 1750. Beside opera's Oratoria, Masses and instrumental works he wrote a considerable number of beautiful chamber cantatas. This Cd presents some of the most beautiful examples of his work. This is the third production of Inês d'Avena for Passacaille in which she...
Artist(s):Elinor Frey, Suzie Leblanc, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Esteban La Rotta Composer:Angelo Maria Fiorè (1660-1723), Marc’Antonio Ziani, Carlo Monza, Paolo Magni (1650 ca. - 1737)
On tackling the works of Giuseppe Tartini, a player immediately notices an inconsistency: Tartini was a major personality of his period, a virtuoso violinist, a prolific composer, an excellent teacher – and his music is hardly ever performed today. He was called maestro delle nazioni, for he trained the great violinists of the Classical period from throughout Europe; he also left behind an...
