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Non-professional lovers of music ranged, in their mastery of the instruments, from amateurs to concert performers. So the instrumental fantasias were “molded” to the patrons’ specific requirements, and nourished a constantly growing market. The history...

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Release Date: September 09, 2014

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Alessandro Scarlatti’s cantata Bella madre de’ fiori, opens with a slow-tempo Sinfonia followed by a series of arias and recitatives, the last of which is perhaps the most intensely poetic and stylistically original section of...

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Release Date: October 14, 2014

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi brought the theatre into churches, and religious seriousness into theatres. He is also the first musician who was never dropped from the repertory, either in theatres or in churches. Before him, only...

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Release Date: October 14, 2014

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The juxtaposition of Bellini and Chopin, coeval romantics, is significant because of the affinity they show in their melodic inspiration. Their “long, long, long melodies”, exhibit a sonic and ecstatic sensuality that engrosses listeners. The...

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Release Date: October 14, 2014

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Roberto Noferini performs the brilliant and alluring 24 Caprices of Paganini on an instrument and bow of Paganini's time. "The electricity I feel when I'm dealing with the magic harmony" Paganini wrote on 15, January...

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Release Date: October 14, 2014

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Compared with his immense vocal composition output (most of which remains to be rediscovered), the quantity of instrumental music composed by Alessandro Scarlatti would almost seem hardly worth the mention. + Yet the selected compositions...

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Release Date: November 11, 2014

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Among Verdi’s early productions, the comic opera Un giorno di regno had a particularly unlucky fate, written as it was after the success of his first opera, Oberto, but also during a time of unspeakable...

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Release Date: November 11, 2014

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The tragically early death from illness of Italian composer Mario Pilati (1903-38) abruptly terminated a career marked by rapid and deserving success despite early struggles both familial and financial. + This Tactus release, highlighting select...

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Release Date: November 11, 2014

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An alternation that recalls a noble ancestry, which is, not by chance, Triestine, Marco Podda combines 12 numbers, some instrumental, other vocal, creating what we could define as a lyric suite: The Chords of the...

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Release Date: January 13, 2015

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The latest Tactus CD from I Solisti Laudensi features works by six Italian composers (two by Vivaldi) active from the Baroque to the 20th c., in transcriptions for organ and strings accomplished in the 19th...

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Release Date: February 10, 2015

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Pianist and composer Gino Gorini, a pupil of, amongst others, Gian Francesco Malipiero from 1934-40, was an inheritor of the monumental piano style of Busoni and Petri. Gorini admired Busoni as a virtuoso but did...

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Release Date: February 10, 2015

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Throughout his lifetime, Antonio Vivaldi – a composer of many lyric operas – penned an enormous corpus of works encompassing countless concertos, sonatas, and sacred music. In his concertos and chamber sonatas, Vivaldi reveals his...

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Release Date: February 10, 2015

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This CD includes the world premiere recording of Marco Enrico Bossi complete works for piano four hands. As shown and evident in the Suite de Valses op. 93 and the transcription of the magnificent Suite...

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Release Date: March 10, 2015

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Three composers, Tedeschi, Galeotti and Mortari, with three completely different musical styles: what they share is the sound of the harp and the rediscovery of its late-Romantic, early-modern Italian repertory, which is mostly still unknown,...

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Release Date: March 10, 2015

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Among the thirteen oratorios by Giovanni Paolo Colonna, more than half are connected, by origin or tradition, to the court of Francesco II d’Este. Although in the early modern period the sacredness of monarchy was...

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Release Date: March 10, 2015