PAGANINI: Ghiribizzi (Complete)

These two masterpieces presented on DVD were filmed in the breathtakingly beautiful Eremitani Church in Padua. Galuppi’s “Mass for the delivery of slaves” shows his talent as a composer with its contrapuntal mastery. This is its world premiere recording. Mozart’s Mass in C major was composed in 1779, fourteen years after Galuppi’s. Claudio Scimone conducts I Solisti Veneti for this recording. They are joined by the Lege Artis Choir of St. Petersburg, conducted by Boris Abalyan.

Salvatore Accardo is considered to be one of today’s most celebrated violinists. Dynamic is happy to feature a series of DVDs proposing the master classes held by Salvatore Accardo in Cremona (the world capital of Violin Making) at the famous Walter Stauffer Musicology Centre in 2011.

Directed by Matteo Ricchetti, Mario Corradi. Starring Giorgio Surian, Antonia Cifrone, Massimo Laguardia. "It may not contain well-known singers but it is all a performance of Tosca should be. The sets are imaginatively inventive, demonstrating how to make much from little: Mario Corradi's production is theatrically powerful, the singing first class. Antonia Cifarone, who can act as well as sing, is a mesmerizing Tosca... No matter how many Toscas you may already own, this is one well worth adding to your collection" -- Opera Now Sept/Oct 2009

While these pieces have been recorded and performed many many times, what makes this recording unique is the use of the tangent piano (Tangentenflugel.) The tangent piano was quite popular throughout Germany during the late 18th century. The instrument has strings which are struck by wooden slips that don’t have any soft coverings. The strikers move perpendicularly to the strings like harpsichord jacks. The pieces on this release were published between 1779 and 1787 as part of six books of Sonatas, Fantasias, and Rondos titled Fur Kenner ind Liebhaber (for masters and amateurs).

After the admission to Endenich (Bonn), where he was hospitalized following a suicide attempt in February 1854, with his mind already seriously disturbed, Schumann composed, in the spring of 1855, piano accompaniments to Paganini’s 24 Capricci; they were found by his wife Clara among his papers only after his death, and published for the first time in 1930. Rarely recorded and performed, the 24 Caprices with Schumann's piano accompaniment are a moving musical document with a high symbolic value. It's the closing of a circle. Paganini, with his unparalleled virtuosity, had marked the beginning of Schumann’s professional career as a musician and now, in that gloomy spring of 1855, it also marked its ending.

BALSAMINO: Novellette a 6 voci / MONTEVERDI: Combattimento d

This production was filmed live in 2007 at the Teatro Donizetti of Bergamo. The singing of Silvia Dalla Benetta as Adina and Alex Esposito as Dulcamara lifts the show to a higher plane. GAETANO DONIZETTI: Silvia Dalla Benetta; Raul Hernandez; Damiano Salerno; Alex Esposito; Elena Borin; Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti/Alessandro De Marchi; alessio Pizzech, director;

Verdi: Duetti verdiani

• These works represented on this disc demonstrate the 18th century Neapolitan artistic milieu, revealing a uniformity in conception as development of the concerto form advanced. Flautist Renata Cataldi is an artist of formidable musicality • and interpretive skill as well as a scholar of considerable • merit. • Egidio Mastrominico conducts Le Musiche da Camera.

MAZZAFERRATA: Primo libro delle Sonate a 2 violini (Il)

CENTONE DI SONATE FOR VIOLIN A

On this wonderful recording of Flute Concertos are rare transcriptions for flute by C. Furstenau and F. Devienne. Flautist Mario Carbotta is a Viotti specialist and has recorded his full works for flute and piano.

SCHUMANN: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Fantasiestücke

Paganini: Unpublished