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    1. Le musiche di Bellerofonte Castaldi / Laurens, Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique
    2. Le musiche di Bellerofonte Castaldi / Laurens, Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique
    Alpha

    Le musiche di Bellerofonte Castaldi / Laurens, Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    CD · 1 disc

    $11.99
    Composer
    CASTALDI, BELLEROFONTE
    Artist
    Le Poeme Harmonique, Laurens, Dumestre
    Released
    Sep 30, 2016
    After the success of the first fourteen reissues, which restored to the limelight some of the gems of the early music repertory in the catalogues of our labels, here are fourteen new titles to allow listeners to renew acquaintance with further treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque (and even a journey through time thanks to Raphaël Imbert’s album Bach Coltrane), performed by some of the leading interpreters of the genre; most of these discs won one or more awards on their first release. As with the first series, the artists have been asked to contribute to the booklets, in which, with a few years’ hindsight, they talk about their conception of the works and how they went about recording them. The photographers of the Magnum agency illustrate the covers of the series with their work; this time the common design element is the colour yellow.In addition to the 13 titles shown below, the album FIRENZE 161 by LE POEME HARMONIQUE, VINCENT DUMESTRE, will also be reissued.
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  • Le musiche di Bellerofonte Castaldi / Laurens, Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    Le musiche di Bellerofonte Castaldi / Laurens, Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    Alpha Sep 2016
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.99
    • Castaldi & Pellegrini: Capricci
    Alpha

    Castaldi & Pellegrini: Capricci

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Bellerofonte Castaldi, Domenico Pellegrini
    Artist
    Albane Imbs, Rolf Lislevand
    Released
    Sep 06, 2024
    The works of the theorbist Bellerofonte Castaldi and the guitarist Domenico Pellegrini are little known but nonetheless remain fascinating to their performers today, as they not only give clear proof of fertile musical imagination but also raise many questions about how they should be performed. Although Castaldi was the first to praise the innovative style of his friend Monteverdi, his works are marked by a strong Renaissance spirit. Castaldi and Pellegrini chose not only the most classical forms (dances, courantes, galliards) but also the most archaic (branles, batailles, canzoni). Lutenist, theorbist and baroque guitarist Albane Imbs here presents her first solo album. She has founded her own ensemble, Les Kapsber'girls and also plays in ensembles led by Jordi Savall, Francois Lazarevich, Raphael Pichon and Rolf Lislevand, the great Norwegian lutenist/theorbist who was her teacher. Imbs and Lislevand here perform Castaldi's Capricci a due stromenti, the only example of music written for a duo of theorbo and tiorbino, this latter being a miniature theorbo conceived and played by Castaldi himself.
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  • Castaldi & Pellegrini: Capricci

    Castaldi & Pellegrini: Capricci

    Alpha Sep 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • Italian Virtuosi Of The Chitarrone / Lindberg
    BIS

    Italian Virtuosi Of The Chitarrone / Lindberg

    CD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    CASTALDI, BELLEROFONTE KAPSBE
    Artist
    Jakob, Lindberg
    Released
    Jul 01, 2012
    My attention was won by the cover. There’s Jakob Lindberg holding the most enormous stringed instrument I’ve ever seen. The long neck of the instrument extends off into the distance and Lindberg himself looks completely unintimidated. There’s no way to resist that. Then I put on the first track, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger’s “Arpeggiata,” and was enthralled. It’s an extraordinary little piece, building with the minimalistic drama of a Philip Glass piece across chords and seemingly across the centuries. 

    There are more gems to be had here. Kapsperger’s “Passacaglia” is a masterwork, the compact frame and starkly simple bass line concealing a work of enormous emotional fervor. I was going to call it “haunting” until I saw that the booklet - written by the artist - already does, and yet there really is not a better word. As always in the baroque byways, there are composers exploring harmony in interesting ways; most intriguingly, Alessandro Piccinini contributes a “Toccata cromatica” and Bellerofonte Castaldi a “Cromatica corrente”. Castaldi’s “Cecchina corrente” is more of a scene-stealer, bounding in with a burly, jovial dance but then, halfway through, breaking down into a more intricate rhythmic pattern. That said, it’s really Kapsperger who dominates this recital, since there is next to no music here better than the arpeggiata, passacaglia, or rowdily witty “Colascione”.
     
    The main competition is from Paul O’Dette on HM Gold, a mid-price recital of nothing but Kapsperger. O’Dette uses a chitarrone for some works and a lute for most. He somehow misses out on the passacaglia, but his Kapsperger is well worth having too. In fact I purchased it after hearing the CD being reviewed here. A disc on Hänssler I haven’t heard, featuring Joachim Held on a lute, combines these three composers with the amusingly named Michelangelo Galilei. Castaldi’s songs with voice can be heard on Toccata Classics, and on a CD which was one of MusicWeb’s 2012 Recordings of the Year. For the neophyte this excellent BIS CD is a good sampler; depending on what you like you can move on to the composer-specific albums elsewhere, although I warn that you really will want to collect Kapsperger if you don’t already. If you do, I hear nothing which will let you down here.
     
    A minor irritation: if you’re intending to add this to your computerized collection, you have your work cut out. The Gracenote (iTunes) database doesn’t have information on this CD, which means you’ll be typing in all 27 track names yourself.
     
    -- Brian Reinhart, MusicWeb International
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  • Italian Virtuosi Of The Chitarrone / Lindberg

    Italian Virtuosi Of The Chitarrone / Lindberg

    BIS Jul 2012
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • ITALIAN LUTE MUSIC

    ITALIAN LUTE MUSIC

    Haenssler Classic May 2007
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Kapsberger: Libro Secondo D'Arie, 1623
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    Kapsberger: Libro Secondo D'Arie, 1623

    Toccata Oct 2006
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99 $10.49Save 50%
    • The Feast Of San Rocco - Venice 1608 / Musica Fiata, Et Al
    Sony Masterworks

    The Feast Of San Rocco - Venice 1608 / Musica Fiata, Et Al

    CD · 2 discs

    $29.99
    Composer
    GABRIELI, GIOVANNI
    Artist
    Christoph, Lehmann
    Released
    Mar 18, 2009

    Includes toccata(s) by Giovanni Gabrieli. Ensemble: Cologne Musica Fiata. Conductor: Roland Wilson. Soloists: Graham Nicholson, Sebastian Scharr, François Petit-Laurent, Martin Lubenow, Matthias Sprinz, Yuji Fujimoto, Detlef Reimers, Sebastian Krause, Ole Andersen, Cas Gevers, Henning Plumeyer, Peter Sommer.

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  • The Feast Of San Rocco - Venice 1608 / Musica Fiata, Et Al

    The Feast Of San Rocco - Venice 1608 / Musica Fiata, Et Al

    Sony Masterworks Mar 2009
    2 discs
    CD
    $29.99
    • YESILCAY AGA CAROSO
    Oehms Classics

    YESILCAY AGA CAROSO

    Vinyl · 2 discs

    $18.99 $37.99 Save 50%
    Composer
    0
    Artist
    PERA ENSEMBLE
    Released
    Oct 14, 2016
    The Mediterranean Sea, the cradle of many great cultures and travel route between Orient and Occident, is the point of departure of this enthralling album by the Pera Ensemble. On this release, the Pera Ensemble has dedicated itself to the Early Baroque - the period of transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period itself. The program consists entirely of Italian music adapted together with Ottoman music. This album contains numerous world premiere recordings.
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  • YESILCAY AGA CAROSO
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    YESILCAY AGA CAROSO

    Oehms Classics Oct 2016
    2 discs
    Vinyl
    $37.99 $18.99Save 50%
    • La Cetra d'Orfeo
    MV Cremona

    La Cetra d'Orfeo

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    MONTEVERDI KAPSBERGER PICCIN
    Artist
    Bonetti, Cantalupi
    Released
    Aug 04, 2017
    The musical 1600's represent a period of particular ferment: the birth of opera in music, the practice of continuo playing, solo singing with instrumental accompaniment. Musical settings change as well, they are no longer small chambers for ''musica reservata'' but great rooms and theaters calling for powerful voices capable of filling them. The harp and the chitarrone are two striking examples of how ancient instruments, still nearly renaissance models, become modernized if not designed ex novo to adapt the power of their sound to these large speces.
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  • La Cetra d'Orfeo

    La Cetra d'Orfeo

    MV Cremona Aug 2017
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    • Calling the Muse
    Alpha

    Calling the Muse

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Bruno Helstroffer
    Released
    Aug 24, 2018
    Bruno Helstroffer writes of his new release: "It's a logbook, the one I've never really kept. My years of blues/rock and early music mingle here; the thousands of kilometers travelled with that theorbo of mine, the cities and the countryside, the railways, the skies, the scents, the lights; but above all, the music of the people. 'Partite variate sopra quest'aria francese detta l'alemana' is a tablature by Piccinini of an aria also called La Monica. In North America in the late nineteenth century, railroad hoboes carved their vagabond pseudonym along the tracks, which they called their 'moniker'... 'Corrente VI sopra l'alemana,' by the same composer, is the energetic counterpart to the noble and meditative allemande. 'Like a Belfry' is taken from a dream... Rosemary Standley has set her words to the melody and sings them. J. H. Kapsberger's 'Toccata nona' is associated here with Perivoli Blue. Perivoli is a village in the south of the island of Corfu. 'Thanks Toumani' expresses my fascination with Mandingo music. Bellerofonte Castaldi's 'Arpeggiata a mio modo' was one of my first challenges on the theorbo. Erik Satie's 'Gnossienne no.1' arrived under my fingers without warning and made a place for itself here by fitting in so naturally that I couldn't say no to it. This is the piece chosen by my photographer friend Richard Dumas to make the video clip of the album. With Kapsberger's 'Bergamasca,' a dance from Bergamo in Italy, the theorbo becomes a festive and agile instrument. 'A Tea with Bach' is an arrangement of the Minuet from Bach's Cello Suite no.1. The 'Toccata Undicesima' serves as the introduction to an improvisation: Vos luths. And invokes India."
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  • Calling the Muse

    Calling the Muse

    Alpha Aug 2018
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    1. Salve Regina Del Signor Monteverde - Newly Discovered Pieces
    2. Salve Regina Del Signor Monteverde - Newly Discovered Pieces
    Brilliant Classics

    Salve Regina Del Signor Monteverde - Newly Discovered Pieces

    CD · 1 disc

    $13.99
    Composer
    MONTEVERDI FRESCOBALDI
    Artist
    Il Pegaso, Croci
    Released
    Sep 25, 2012
    Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi were two of the most influential musical figures in 17th century Italy. This new recording celebrates the influence that these two composers continue to exert over performers and audiences today - and the fascination that their music inspires - through a selection of motets and instrumental pieces, performed with precision and authority by Il Pesago and Maurizio Croci.
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  • Salve Regina Del Signor Monteverde - Newly Discovered Pieces

    Salve Regina Del Signor Monteverde - Newly Discovered Pieces

    Brilliant Classics Sep 2012
    1 disc
    CD
    $13.99
    1. Tantalo: Baroque Bel Canto / Urbano, L'Armonia Degli Affetti
    2. Tantalo: Baroque Bel Canto / Urbano, L'Armonia Degli Affetti
    IBS Classical

    Tantalo: Baroque Bel Canto / Urbano, L'Armonia Degli Affetti

    CD · 1 disc

    $17.99 $18.99 Save 5%
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Mena, Amo, L?Armonia Degli Affetti, Urbano
    Released
    Sep 24, 2021
    “Imitar col canto chi parla” (“imitating in song one who speaks”): that ideal, expressed by Jacopo Peri in the preface to his setting of Euridice, heralded a veritable revolution in vocal music, beginning with the experiments, towards the end of the sixteenth century, of the Florentine Camerata – a group of intellectuals and musicians led by Count Giovanni de’ Bardi, who aimed to revive the glorious art of ancient Greek tragedy. According to written accounts, the latter was sung, or spoken, in such a way that the words, while remaining intelligible at all times, were emotionally heightened. The members of the Camerata wished thus to break with the polyphonic madrigal tradition of the Renaissance and turn to accompanied monody, recitar cantando, thereby returning to the pre-eminence of the word as the means of conveying human emotions, with the music, henceforth subordinate to speech, serving to magnify and amplify it.
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  • Tantalo: Baroque Bel Canto / Urbano, L'Armonia Degli Affetti
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    Tantalo: Baroque Bel Canto / Urbano, L'Armonia Degli Affetti

    IBS Classical Sep 2021
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99 $17.99Save 5%
  • Uno + One: Italia Nostra
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    Uno + One: Italia Nostra

    Avie Records Oct 2013
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $9.99Save 50%