Monteverdi Brilliant Classics

Sylvia Pozzer, William Matteuzzi, Sara Mingardo, Angela Bucci, Sergio Vartolo - Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2012) Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 29, 2023

Reissue in the Brilliant Classics Opera Collection of this excellent “HIP” performance of Monteverdi’s ever popular L’Orfeo, history’s first real opera. Soloists include the crème of Baroque Voices: the great Sara Mingardo, Sylvia Pozzer, Gabriella Martellacci, Gianpaolo Fagotto and the inspiring and historically based direction of Sergio Vartolo. Narrating the famous tale of the Thracian singer Orpheus and his quest to the underworld to bring his wife, Euridice, back to the land of the living, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is one of the most enduringly popular of all operatic works.

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Le Nuove Musiche - Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 27, 2022

Le Nuove Musiche - Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:39:29 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

In 1641, the collection Selva morale e spirituale was published in Venice by Bartolomeo Magni. The set raises a number of questions. Was it compiled by Monteverdi himself or were commercial interests at play? Was it a musical testament or another’s tribute to the great composer? Who would have been allowed to go through his overflowing library and choose these most beautiful pieces for inclusion in this last edition to be issued during Claudio Monteverdi’s lifetime (1567–1643)

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Krijn Koetsveld - The Monteverdi Organ (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 26, 2021

Krijn Koetsveld - The Monteverdi Organ (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 01:10:33 | 161 / 306 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

This recording features a very special newly built organ, showcasing it in the roles in which its predecessors were used in their heyday at the turn of the 16th century. This particular type of organ, small in scale and with open pipes all made of Italian cypress wood, was one of which perhaps the most important composer of his time, Claudio Monteverdi, was particularly fond, and yet it’s practically nonexistent today.It was during Le Nuove Musiche’s great undertaking to record the complete cycle of Monteverdi’s Books of Madrigals that director Krijn Koetsveld began to feel the need for an organ capable of recreating the sound typical of that era. He explored possibilities for realizing such a project, and gradually the idea to reconstruct an organ befitting the Italian musical practice from around 1600 took shape. He approached the Netherlands’ Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds, and they embraced the idea, consulted organist Pieter van Dijk and awarded the organ building contract to Klop Orgelbouwers.

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Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti, Coro della Radio Svizzera ‎– Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine (2011) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Sept. 15, 2020

A much needed filling of a gap in the Brilliant Classics discography: the world famous Maria Vespers of Monteverdi! The Maria Vespers contain a collection of liturgical chants and psalms, for a wide variety of instruments, from the festive opening with trumpets to intimate arias for solo voice. In everything one hears the great dramatic genius of Monteverdi, the “first” opera composer in history. Excellent performance, on historical instruments, by conductor Diego Fasolis, and his “Barocchisti”, and a great line of vocal soloists, among whom are the well known Marco Beasley and Marinella Pennicchi.

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Cristiano Porqueddu - Cavallone: Music for Guitar (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 26, 2021

Cristiano Porqueddu - Cavallone: Music for Guitar (2021)
FLAC tracks | 05:03:55 | 481 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Many first recordings on a comprehensive, newly recorded survey of a distinguished modern Italian guitar-composer.Joining the extensive library of guitar music in the Brilliant Classics catalogue, Franco Cavallone is a worthy successor to Italian guitar composers from Giuliani to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He is an accomplished performer himself, having studied with the likes of Leo Brouwer and Angelo Gilardino, and the pieces recorded here have been composed with an intimate knowledge of the guitar’s technical and timbral possibilities, which Cristiano Porqueddu exploits to the full, with the composer’s enthusiastic approval: ‘He has managed to create a kaleidoscope of sound and sense that is truly rewarding for the listener. I am convinced that this CD set is a benchmark recording for my music for the guitar.’

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Matteo Venturini - Weckmann: Complete Organ Music (2020) Music

Posted by varrock at Jan. 31, 2020

Matteo Venturini - Weckmann: Complete Organ Music (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 868 MB | Tracks: 50 | 184:03 min
Style: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674) was an organist and composer of the North German School. His musical training took place at the Dresden court, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Schütz, studying organ and singing. In 1633 he went to Hamburg to study with the famous organist Jacob Praetorius. He influenced by Schütz as well as pupils of Sweelinck who settled in Hamburg. The rest of his life he held important posts in Hamburg (organist of the Jacobskirche) and at the Dresden Court.

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Accademia d'Arcadia, Alessandra Rossi Lurig, Ensemble Dolci Accenti - Sammartini: The Galant Italian (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 11, 2024

Accademia d'Arcadia, Alessandra Rossi Lurig, Ensemble Dolci Accenti - Sammartini: The Galant Italian (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 4:18:20 | 1.7 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Recorded in the extraordinary acoustics of the Basilica di Santa Barbara in Mantua, where Monteverdi worked during his long stay in the city, this project features the splendid voices of the Accademia d’Arcadia, an ensemble recently founded in 2018 for the purpose of performing Italian music of the seventeenth century.

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Giorgio Sasso - Peaceful Oboe The Baroque Collection (2023) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 28, 2023

Giorgio Sasso - Peaceful Oboe The Baroque Collection (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:34:40 | 457 / 216 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style). The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Overlapping in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1650, from 1630 to 1700, and from 1680 to 1750.

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Rodolfo Bellatti - Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances & Suite The Birds Transcriptions for Organ (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 30, 2022

Rodolfo Bellatti - Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances & Suite The Birds Transcriptions for Organ (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:14:20 | 358 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Though not strictly born in the 1880s (1879), Respighi belonged to a group of composers known as the "generazione dell’ottanta" (the 80s generation), who strived to assert, as they saw it, a renewed musical expression of authentically Italian musical culture. It was a conservative stance in terms of both musical approach and nationalism, but it resulted in Respighi and colleagues recovering unjustly neglected treasures from their Italian heritage. Respighi’s first international success, an arrangement of Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna, may be seen as the natural forerunner to the four suites of arrangements and transcriptions on this album.

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Ensemble Capriccio Armonico - Monteverdi & Gabrieli: Easter Celebration at St. Mark's in Venice 1600 (2018) Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 16, 2019

This recording presents a reconstruction of the Easter Celebration at St. Mark’s, Venice, around 1600. The Proprium Mass (the part of the mass which is related to the liturgical year) is from the beautiful Gradulae Giunta (Venice, 1572), the Missa Ordinarium (the standard Mass which is always the same) is by Monteverdi, from his Selva Morale e Spirituale.

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