Juan Carlos Muñoz, Mari Fe Pavón, Artemandoline Italian Baroque Mandolin Sonatas (2021)

Juan Carlos Muñoz, Mari Fe Pavón, Artemandoline - Italian Baroque Mandolin Sonatas (2021) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 16, 2021

The 18th century was the golden age of the mandolin. The ensemble Artemandoline presents world premiere recordings of forgotten masterpieces written in Florence and Rome for mandolin and basso continuo. A music full of energy, beauty and virtuosity.

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Artemandoline, Mari Fé Pavón & Juan Carlos Munoz - Italian Baroque Mandolin Sonatas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 15, 2021

Artemandoline, Mari Fé Pavón & Juan Carlos Munoz - Italian Baroque Mandolin Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 55:18 minutes | 581 MB
Classical | Label: deutsche harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

The works that are featured on the present recording were all written during an extremely fertile period in the history of the mandolin. Complex and varied, the Baroque age set out to explore new means of expression and, first and foremost, novel timbres. The inventive inquisitiveness of Baroque musicians took them in the direction of the subtlest of sonorities, and no sound was more subtle than that of the mandolin. This was a time when aesthetic concerns were dominated by research into tone colour and into achieving greater and greater refinement.

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