Fred DE Palma IL Cielo Non CI Vuole

The cantata, to some extent, is a development from the madrigal that appeared in Italy at the start of the seventeenth century. While the madrigal was refined and delicate, the cantata evolved because composers felt the need to introduce a dramatic narrative element into vocal chamber music and thusly the music took a lighter, wittier turn.
Scarlatti is considered as one if the initiators, and also one of the reformers of this genre, whose outlines he established. In his cantatas for a single solo voice and continuo, Scarlatti treats the latter as a true partner of the voice.

Roberto Vecchioni - Il Cielo Capovolto (1995)
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Toccante, profondo, unico, immenso, dal nome sublime, è l'amore, l'amore quando viene cantato, raccontato in questo modo come nell'album di Roberto Vecchioni: Il Cielo Capovolto. Le emozioni non mancano ascoltando questo album anche se si passa da brani molto belli e profondi a brani più semplici e piatti. I temi esistenziali non mancano nei brani di Vecchioni, temi sempre sospesi tra Il sogno e la realtà ma sempre molto significativi.

Nicola Porpora is mostly known for being Haydn's teacher, but his own music, which took him to many European countries, is largely forgotten. He was a near contemporary of Handel, and while one might pick Handel between the two if forced, it was a first-among-equals situation. One could not ask for a better introduction to Porpora's operatic music than this 2023 release. The opera Carlo il Calvo ("Carlo the Bald") was composed in 1738 and is an opera seria dealing with a succession struggle in the medieval Holy Roman Empire.

Medieval England exerted a strong influence on Johann Simon Mayr, especially during his final proto-Romantic period. Alfredo il Grande was to be one of his last operas, with a narrative that takes us to a land under threat of war with the Vikings. Escaping capture, Alfred the Great travels incognito, ultimately defeating the enemy and rescuing his beloved Alsvita. With its grandiose choruses and sensuous melodies, this opera was conceived on a monumental scale and proved both impressive at its premiere and influential on the next generation of bel canto composers, making a substantial contribution to the development of the melodramma romantico.

Medieval England exerted a strong influence on Johann Simon Mayr, especially during his final proto-Romantic period. Alfredo il Grande was to be one of his last operas, with a narrative that takes us to a land under threat of war with the Vikings. Escaping capture, Alfred the Great travels incognito, ultimately defeating the enemy and rescuing his beloved Alsvita. With its grandiose choruses and sensuous melodies, this opera was conceived on a monumental scale and proved both impressive at its premiere and influential on the next generation of bel canto composers, making a substantial contribution to the development of the melodramma romantico.

Mayr's Telemaco was a product of turbulent political times in the Republic of Venice, which had been occupied by Napoleon's troops in late 1796. Military elements, with incorporated marches, feature strongly in a score that brought to contemporary Venetian theatre many of the innovative elements that were in vogue on the operatic stages of Paris. Taking classical Greek mythological material, Mayr fashioned an opera full of colour, interweaving instrumental interludes and dances into his arias, cavatinas and choruses, and crafting his own very personal vision of the nwe Italian opera seria.

Stadio - Ballate Fra Il Cielo E Il Mare (1999)
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Ballate fra il cielo e il mare è un album discografico degli Stadio, uscito nell'autunno del 1998, che racchiude tutte le più belle canzoni d'amore degli Stadio, rivisitate con nuovi arrangiamenti.
L'album viene ristampato e pubblicato il 3 marzo 1999 con l'aggiunta del brano "Lo zaino" arrivato al 5° posto al Festival di Sanremo del 1999.
Quattro sono gli inediti di questa raccolta: "Lo zaino", "Muoio un po'", che è una cover della canzone "Driving with the brakes on" del gruppo scozzese Del Amitri, "Fra il cielo e il mare" e "Sembra quasi che non c'è".