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Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: Dafne in lauro (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 24, 2021
Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: Dafne in lauro (2021)

Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: Dafne in lauro (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 590 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 275 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:58:14
Classical, Opera | Label: Arcana

In 2018, the Styriarte Festival in Graz launched, in collaboration with Zefiro, a project to rediscover the operatic output of the Styrian composer Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Kapellmeister at the imperial court in Vienna for forty years, with the aim of restaging six of his nineteen operas, one per year. With a cast of Baroque vocal specialists, led by Monica Piccinini and Arianna Venditelli, this set of Dafne in lauro marks the beginning of a new series in which Arcana will release the recordings made in the course of the six-year cycle. First performed on 1 October 1714 to celebrate the birthday of the Emperor Charles VI, Dafne in lauro is distinguished by the numerous references to hunting in the overture and in Diana’s arias, and by the numerous dance movements typical of the French style, such as minuets, gigues and bourrées. The highlight is Daphne’s poignant aria accompanied by the viola da gamba, which, along with the chalumeau and the transverse flute, enriches the range of tone colours in the score.
Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: Dafne in lauro (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: Dafne in lauro (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 118:14 minutes | 1,25 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Arcana, Official Digital Download

In 2018, the Styriarte Festival in Graz launched, in collaboration with Zefiro, a project to rediscover the operatic output of the Styrian composer Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Kapellmeister at the imperial court in Vienna for forty years, with the aim of restaging six of his nineteen operas, one per year. With a cast of Baroque vocal specialists, led by Monica Piccinini and Arianna Venditelli, this set of Dafne in lauro marks the beginning of a new series in which Arcana will release the recordings made in the course of the six-year cycle.
Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: La corona d’Arianna (2023)

Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Alfredo Bernardini - Fux: La corona d’Arianna (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 377 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 166 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:15
Classical, Choral | Label: Arcana

In 2018, the Styriarte Festival in Graz launched, in collaboration with Zefiro, a project to rediscover the operatic output of the Styrian composer Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Kapellmeister at the imperial court in Vienna for forty years, with the aim of restaging six of his nineteen operas, one per year. With a cast of Baroque vocal specialists, led by Monica Piccinini and Carlotta Colombo, this set of La corona d’Arianna represents the second instalment of the Arcana series which documents the recordings made in the course of this six-year cycle, following the success of Dafne in lauro (A488, 2021 – awarded Gramophone Editor’s Choice and rated Eccezionale by Musica).

Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Grand Tour a Venezia (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 14, 2022
Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Grand Tour a Venezia (2022)

Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Grand Tour a Venezia (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 378 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:06:19
Classical | Label: Arcana, Outhere Music

Like many education-hungry sons of the European nobility, the 18-year-old Prince Frederick August II embarked on his Grand Tour, which took him from Saxony to Venice in 1716, where he spent almost a year. The large entourage that accompanied the young prince on this trip included such great musicians as the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, the oboist Johann Christian Richter and the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. In Venice, an intense exchange with local stars such as Vivaldi developed, in an atmosphere of friendship and competition. On his return to Dresden, August took with him, in addition to Lotti and Veracini, Heinichen, whom he had met in Venice and who became his Kapellmeister. After acclaimed recordings of orchestral works by Handel and Bach, Zefiro now discovers this fascinating repertoire of music by Italians who composed in the French style and Germans who wrote Venetian concertos to impress the prince.
Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - Vivaldi: Concerti per vari strumenti (2005)

Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - Vivaldi: Concerti per vari strumenti (2005)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:07 | 355 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP30409

Few people nowadays seriously believe Vivaldi wrote the same concerto five hundred times. But the view that there is little variety in Vivaldi's oeuvre is still widely held. Louis T. Vatoison, in the programme notes to this recording, has a strongly different perception: "a Vivaldi concerto must (…) be seen as an individual 'snapshot', whose instrumental layout or formal structure implicitly reveal at what period, and sometimes even for whom it was written". The music on this disc gives ample evidence for this view.
Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Grand Tour a Venezia (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Zefiro & Alfredo Bernardini - Grand Tour a Venezia (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 66:19 minutes | 1,29 GB
Classical | Label: Arcana, Official Digital Download

Like many education-hungry sons of the European nobility, the 18-year-old Prince Frederick August II embarked on his Grand Tour, which took him from Saxony to Venice in 1716, where he spent almost a year. The large entourage that accompanied the young prince on this trip included such great musicians as the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, the oboist Johann Christian Richter and the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.
Alfredo Carrión - Los Andares Del Alquimista (1976) [Reissue 2003]

Alfredo Carrion - Los Andares Del Alquimista (1976) [Reissue 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 207 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 77 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: DRO East West (5046703322)

Alfredo Carrion made his first mark in the history of progressive rock in 1975 by writing the orchestral arrangements for Ciclos, Canarios' brilliant and blasphemous butchering of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. A year later he struck out on his own by writing the music for "Los Andares del Alquimista", a less extravagant but no less eclectic exploration of popular, classical and folk musics.
Actually, the first three songs very deftly and tastefully put folk-tinged pop music together with some symbolist poetry sung by an elegant female voice with classical-style tone and use of vibrato. The mood shifts of "Espejo Sumergido" and the lush progressions and soaring melody lines of "Tensa Memoria" are very much symphonic progressive characteristics…
Alfredo Carrión - Los Andares Del Alquimista (1976) [Reissue 2003]

Alfredo Carrion - Los Andares Del Alquimista (1976) [Reissue 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 207 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 77 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: DRO East West (5046703322)

Alfredo Carrion made his first mark in the history of progressive rock in 1975 by writing the orchestral arrangements for Ciclos, Canarios' brilliant and blasphemous butchering of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. A year later he struck out on his own by writing the music for "Los Andares del Alquimista", a less extravagant but no less eclectic exploration of popular, classical and folk musics.
Actually, the first three songs very deftly and tastefully put folk-tinged pop music together with some symbolist poetry sung by an elegant female voice with classical-style tone and use of vibrato. The mood shifts of "Espejo Sumergido" and the lush progressions and soaring melody lines of "Tensa Memoria" are very much symphonic progressive characteristics…
Alfredo Rodriguez - The Little Dream (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Alfredo Rodríguez - The Little Dream (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 48:30 minutes | 988 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Alfredo Rodríguez's fourth studio album was recorded in just two days, with a majority of the songs being done impressively in one take. Over the past decade he has gone from a young local Cuban artist to a globally recognized Grammy-nominee. As jazz music sees a resurgence in younger audiences, Rodríguez is leading the way for the new wave of Cuban musicians. "The Little Dream" gently builds into an uplifting statement - one that reflects the hope children hold in building a brighter future, where tiny dreams manifest into grandiose realities.
Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - The Baroque Collection [10CDs] (2019)

Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - The Baroque Collection [10CDs] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.46 Gb | Total time: 11 h 20 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | A202 | Recorded: 1993-2017

During the summer of 1989, oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi together with bassoonist Alberto Grazzi founded Zefiro, a versatile ensemble specialized in 18th century music predominantly featuring wind instruments. Zefiro soon made a name for itself worldwide, and to celebrate its thirty years of activity Arcana is releasing an elegant 10-CD set of their complete recordings of baroque music. From the ensemble’s first disc (Sonatas by Zelenka - Grand Prix du Disque), the compilation alternates recordings of repertoire composers and pieces that have become absolute points of reference, such as the Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Handel’s Fireworks (Diapason d’or de l’année 2009) or the Bach Overtures (judged by Gramaphone to be one of the 50 best Bach recordings of all time).