Io Sono Cesare

The Mozartists continue their MOZART 250 project of staging operas by Mozart and his contemporaries with their recording of the UK premiére of Niccolò Jommelli’s Il Vologeso, first performed over 250 years ago on 11 February 1766 for the Stuttgart court in Ludwigsburg. For this eagerly awaited performance The Mozartists assembled a superb young cast, headed by the Irish mezzo-soprano Rachel Kelly, a graduate of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, tenor Stuart Jackson, a former Mozartists Associate Artist, and soprano Gemma Lois Summerfield, winner of the 2015 Kathleen Ferrier Award.

This album is often described as a lost gem of the Italian Prog, but what the listener will get listening to this work is some decent, well-played but very calm and relaxing Italian Pop with just a few bits of a light symphonicism on numbered occasions. All tracks are extremely short, the longer one clocking under 4 minutes, most of them have a strong late-60's feeling, when Beat was the king of music in Italy with sax solos, soft pianos, heavy lyrical moments (dealing with religious themes) and some psychedelic guitars parts. A few of them though contain some strong flute drives in the vein of Delirium and Jumbo, offering the listener moments of a more challenging musicianship, though even these very limited instrumental parts can be described as prog, they are rather close to Psychedlic Pop/Rock than Classic Prog.

Die Festspielpremiere von ALCINA im Prinzregententheater am 17. Juli 2005 wurde wie so viele andere Premieren von Barock-Opern zu einem Höhepunkt der Münchner Opernsaison. Wer erinnert sich nicht gerne an die "Poppea", den "Rinaldo" oder natürlich "Giulio Cesare". Mit Anja Harteros und Vesselina Kasarova hatten sich zwei Topstars der internationalen Opernszene in dieser Inszenierung eingefunden. Unter der bewährten Leitung von Ivor Bolton wurde das ganze Ensemble vom Publikum bei jeder Vorstellung mit Ovationen gefeiert, der Nachhall in der Presse war nicht minder euphorisch!

Recorded live at the Saarbrücken State Theatre in 2008, this spectacular new production of Handel's Agrippina has received critical recognition, with reviewer Frank Herkommer of opernnetz.de commenting: "Producer Peter Lund with his celebrated production of Agrippina demonstrates his love with detail, focused on directing the characters, with exuberant fantasy and creativity the Berlin director sparks brilliant Handel fireworks! He succeeds in unleashing an effervescent joy of playing, which puts an irresistible spell on the viewer". Featuring a cast of renowned baroque specialists under the direction of Konrad Junghänel, one of the leading conductors in the array of early music.

La compilation degli innamorati. 26 Canzoni d'amore interpretate dai migliori artisti della musica italiana. Un doppio CD a prezzo speciale! Biagio Antonacci, Tiziano Ferro, Zucchero, Gianna Nannini etc.