Domenico Cimarosa Overtures, Vol. 4

Alessandro Amoretti, Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia - Domenico Cimarosa: Overtures Vol.1 (2007)

Alessandro Amoretti, Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia - Domenico Cimarosa: Overtures Vol.1 (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 69:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.570508 | Recorded: 2000

Domenico Cimarosa was the most famous and popular Italian composer of the second half of the eighteenth century. In the course of a brilliantly successful career he composed more than 65 operas, as well as a significant body of instrumental music and works for the church. His operas were performed all over Europe, both in Italian and in translation. A number of Cimarosa’s operas continued to enjoy occasional stagings during the nineteenth century, and his most famous work, Il matrimonio segreto, is one of only a handful of operas of the period never to have left the repertory. Cimarosa’s overtures are remarkable for their melodic invention, assured handling of the orchestra and sheer vitality.
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice - Cimarosa - Overtures, Vol. 7 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice - Cimarosa - Overtures, Vol. 7 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 54:15 minutes | 940 MB
Classical | Label: Naxos, Official Digital Download

Domenico Cimarosa was a prolific composer of church and instrumental music, but his reputation rests principally on his operas. During the second half of the 18th century, and until the arrival of Rossini, he was the most successful and performed operatic composer in Europe, and one of the last exponents of the Neapolitan School.
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Patrick Gallois - Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6 (2020) [24/96]

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Patrick Gallois - Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 1:19:42 | 1.42 Gb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: front cover, d.booklet

Domenico Cimarosa’s operas were remarkably successful, being staged and re-staged in opera houses all over Europe. Success in his home town of Naples led o court appointments and royal commissions, including his best-known work Il matrimonio segreto (‘The Secret Marriage’) composed for Austrian emperor Leopold II. Other hits include L’impegno superato (‘The Broken Engagement’), an instant success and soon to become one of the most frequently performed of Cimarosa’s comic works, and Penelope that was produced as far away as London in 1817. The Cantata per Ferdinando IV was, however, written as an act of repentance, Cimarosa having made the mistake of backing the failed republican government in 1799.