Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

The pieces on this CD are assigned to an abundant set of percussion instruments (in some cases more than 50), arranged in a cage-like structure surrounding a single soloist.

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The repertoire presented by Ensemble Musagete is characterized as a quest to bring great symphonic music into the realm of chamber music in a transparent and intimate way. The success and interest that this musical offering has created in concert-goers has been gratifying and has encouraged us to continue along these lines. The musicians themselves, when placed in front of well-known scores that had been radically transformed into chamber music reacted with enthusiasm because the technical virtuosity and the transparency of the detail of these transcriptions allowed for many sections to be revived and deeply understood. From all this, the idea was born to take these transcriptions to the recording studio and give way to a series with the same title: Microcosms. From big to small. The choice of scores took place following two guidelines. The first was that of selecting contemporary transcriptions that restored the spirit of a past time period. The second was that of emphasizing transcriptions specifically created for Ensemble Musagete and custom-made for it's musicians.

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The frottola genre derived from the oral tradition of executing variations on existing melodies. Above all they were compositions with several strophes and gradually became a cultivated practice, as it was linked to the virtuoso capacities of singers and 'cantori al liuto (singing lutenists). It came to be expressed in three- or four-part compositions where the first part stood out: it carried the melody and it's variations, with as counterpoint a tenor, still quite melodic, a supporting bassus and altus, and the least cantabile of all the voices, which interplayed with the tenor. Barbara Zanichelli was born in Parma, where she earned her diploma at the conservatory in violin before going on to study voice with the Russian teacher Anatoli Goussev in Milan. She furthered her studies of performance practice in baroque music with Cristina Miatello, Claudine Answermet and Roberto Gini. She is joined here by Italian-Swiss lutenist Luca Pianca, who has been championing his instrument since the early 1980s.

When you first listen to Fabio Mengozzi's music it can be misleading. First of all because it's enjoyable, solid, no frills, direct. Then, because it allows your mind to wander among associations and suggestions that relate to various chapters of western music. However, stopping here, we would have already fallen into the trap. Under the illusion of having understood something that has within itself many other keys to interpretation. Fabio Mengozzi is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor. At the age of nineteen, under the guidance of Aldo Ciccolini, he obtained a piano diploma with honors from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin, and participated the following year in the IV Music Festival of the Best Italian Diploma in Castrocaro Terme. He has won first prize at several international compositions, and has gone on to study composition and piano instruction. He performs his own works on this release.

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This new CD was created by Pascal Gallois in honor of Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday (Gallois' professional career began when he worked for Boulez in 1981). This solo CD is the reissue of three major works of the bassoon repertoire, including Boulez's Dialogue de l'ombre.

The Scelsi Collection. With the 'Scelsi Collction', Stradivarius presents the extraordinatry artist, Giacinto Scelsi: musician, poet, writer, and intellectual of our time. In close collaboration with the Isabella ScelsiFoundation, sole heir to the composer, Stradivarius continues its production of a series of recordings made with excellent performer, among them those who are already experts of Scelsian practice as well as those who are exploring the 'universe of Scelsi's for the first time. Conceived as an exclusive collection of monographic albums, hitherto never undertaken in Italy, these new recordings of his vast compositional output will constitute a reference point for the awareness, study, and performance of the oeuvre of Giacinto Scelsi.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music