Ernia Gemelli Ascendente Milano

Torga Ostera is a promising new band from central Portugal that consists of João Francisco on vocals and guitar, Jorge Marinheiro on keyboards, Eurico Moleirinho on bass and Renato Dias on drums. They describe themselves as a Space Rock-inspired band and they sure produce the goods with a blend of music that's fashioned around late-sixties and seventies British psychedelic rock and Portuguese music. The sound of their debut album is primarily based on mellow Pink Floyd inspired grooves, not unlike some of the works of ELOY and Novalis, but also modern bands like Negative Zone and Airbag, although unlike those bands, lyrics are in the band's mother tongue, where comparisons might be draw with the work of fellow Portuguese artists like Petrus Castrus, Jorge Palma or the more recent Toranja.

for their first recording, the tenor and conductor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and I Gemelli revive the work of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, composer and nun in Milan (in a convent attached to the Duomo) and contemporary of Cavalli , Strozzi and Ferrari, in the seventeenth century. An office of Vespers specially reconstructed for the disc, to which Emiliano Gonzalez Toro brings a resolutely vibrant, human, intense and spiritual light. More than a (re) discovery, a real revelation.

This is a film recorded by the Radiotelevisione Italiana in 1956. The first thing that must be remarked is the first-class quality of both the sound and the picture for the standards of the time. Secondly, how young and how good were the singers. Rossana Carteri, who makes Susana , was only 26, while Marcella Pobbe and Luigi Alva, in the roles of the Comtess and Don Basilio, were 29 and Nicola Rossi Lemeni as Figaro 36. Having a Susana and a Comtess who are both both young and gorgeous makes quite credible the final scene in the garden where they exchange roles. Their duetto "Canzonetta Sull' Aria" is particularly enjoyable as well as the Comtess' "Dove Sono I Bei Momento", and Susana's "Deh, Vieni Non Tardar". Nicola Rossi Lemeni was one of the best Italian bassos in those times and he shows his abilities in the role of Figaro. The same can be said about the German basso-baritone Heinz Reifuss who makes a sensual Comte.

Gianandrea Gavazzeni is regarded as one of the greatest Italian opera conductors after De Sabata. He was La Scala’s Musical Director from 1961-1968. In this 1981 production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Gavazzeni worked closely with a cast of young singers to present the opera in a new light.

Francesco da Milano - Intabolatura da Leuto (1530 ca) - Paul Beier, lute (1999) {Stradivarius STR11010 rel 2006}
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© 1999, 2006 Stradivarius | STR 11010 | Echo Series
Classical / Renaissance / Chamber Music / Lute

This book (entablature) of lute pieces was published about 1530 by Francesco da Milano (1497-1543), known in his day along with Michelangelo as "Il Divino." The foremost lutenist of the Italian Renaissance, he served three popes and two cardinals. His works were published throughout Europe. "Clear phrasing captured by Beier with exquisite taste and without ostentation." -Goldberg