Archi

Luigi Piovano & Archi di Santa Cecilia - Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2020)

Luigi Piovano & Archi di Santa Cecilia - Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 306 MB | Tracks: 13 | 60:54 min
Style: Classical | Label: Arcana

The Arcana label continues its successful collaboration with the Archi di Santa Cecilia, the Roman ensemble made up of members of the famous Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The ensemble is led by Luigi Piovano, the orchestra's first cellist since 2007 and a regular partner of Sir Antonio Pappano on piano, his principal conductor; their recording of Brahms cello sonatas will be released this year. The Archi di Santa Cecilia offers us a new recording dedicated to Mozart: the famous serine Eine kleine Nachtmusik K525 and the lesser known but equally brilliant Divertimenti K136, K137 and K138.
Gile Bae, Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Gile Bae, Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 92:06 minutes | 1,63 GB
Classical | Label: Arcana, Official Digital Download

Bach’s cycle of seven concertos for keyboard and orchestra has come down to us in an autograph score which – in view of the loss of most of the other original manuscripts of his music for instrumental ensemble – is one of the most important sources in this area of his output.
Gile Bae, Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos (2024)

Gile Bae, Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 440 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 213 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:32:06
Classical | Label: Arcana

Bach’s cycle of seven concertos for keyboard and orchestra has come down to us in an autograph score which – in view of the loss of most of the other original manuscripts of his music for instrumental ensemble – is one of the most important sources in this area of his output.
Vivaldi - Concerti per archi III & Concerti per viola d’amore - Accademia Byzantina (2018) {2CD Set Naïve OP30570}

Vivaldi - Concerti per archi III & Concerti per viola d’amore - Accademia Byzantina (2018) {2CD Set Naïve OP30570}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 630 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 270 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 16 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2018 Naïve Classique | OP 30570
Classical / Baroque / Viola / Strings

Certainly, there are the Four Seasons and all the violin concertos which are more famous and virtuosic than other works. But it is here, in his concertos for solo strings, that Antonio Vivaldi showcases his writing talent at its highest and purest level: concise, vivacious, deep and immediately emotional. A Vivaldi in the firmament, served here with passion and excellence by Accademia Bizantina.
Archos Quartet - D’Ambrosio: Quartetti e quintetti d’archi (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Archos Quartet - D’Ambrosio: Quartetti e quintetti d’archi (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:29 minutes | 693 MB
Classical | Label: Tactus, Official Digital Download

According to the composer and conductor Clarence Lucas, writing in 1935, “of the merits of d’Ambrosio… he always maintains his standard of elegance and never becomes commonplace”. By the way d’Ambrosio’s instrumental music was highly appreciated by contemporaries and played by the most acclaimed interpreters of his time, though nowadays seems hélas almost neglected. Alfredo D’Ambrosio (Naples, June 13, 1871-Paris, December 28, 1914) was a Neapolitan violinist and composer studying in Naples Conservatoire with Eusebio Dworzak, Ferdinando Pinto, Enrico Bossi, then in Madrid with Pablo Sarasate and in London with August Wilhelmj.
Archos Quartet - D’Ambrosio: Quartetti e quintetti d’archi (2023)

Archos Quartet - D’Ambrosio: Quartetti e quintetti d’archi (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 327 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:29
Classical | Label: Tactus

According to the composer and conductor Clarence Lucas, writing in 1935, “of the merits of d’Ambrosio… he always maintains his standard of elegance and never becomes commonplace”. By the way d’Ambrosio’s instrumental music was highly appreciated by contemporaries and played by the most acclaimed interpreters of his time, though nowadays seems hélas almost neglected. Alfredo D’Ambrosio (Naples, June 13, 1871-Paris, December 28, 1914) was a Neapolitan violinist and composer studying in Naples Conservatoire with Eusebio Dworzak, Ferdinando Pinto, Enrico Bossi, then in Madrid with Pablo Sarasate and in London with August Wilhelmj.
Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - Cinema per archi (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - Cinema per archi (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 72:36 minutes | 698 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

‘Oscar™ Cinema’ might be a suitable alternative title for the new album with which the strings of the Santa Cecilia Academy (Archi di Santa Cecilia) under the direction of Luigi Piovano – principal cellist of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and for several years now also much admired as a conductor – begin their collaboration with Arcana, after two recordings for Eloquentia released in 2014 and 2015.
Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Concerti per archi III e Concerti per viola d'amore (2018)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Concerti per archi III e Concerti per viola d'amore (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 619 Mb | Total time: 66:21+47:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 30570 | Recorded: 2017

A Gramophone editor's Choice, this double album brings together the third volume of Concerti per archi (strings) and the complete Concerti for viola d'amore by the Venetian genius. The Accademia Bizantina and its iconic chief Ottavio Dantone bring to this release a talent so great it is matched only by their dedication. The Vivaldi Edition is an ambitious project begun at the beginning of the century to record some 450 works by Vivaldi, many of them unknown, found in the National University Library of Turin. With the collaboration of today’s leading interpreters of Baroque music we are making available to the public hundreds of works, many in the composer’s own hand and covering every musical genre.
Ulf Wallin, Camerata Nordica - Kurt Atterberg: Sinfonia per archi (2005)

Ulf Wallin, Camerata Nordica - Kurt Atterberg: Sinfonia per archi (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:38 | 338 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777 156-2

This CD features the strings of a conductorless Swedish chamber orchestra, Camerata Nordica, with the distinguished violinist Ulf Wallin sitting in the concertmaster's seat (and playing the solo violin part in the Adagio amoroso). They are capable of digging deeply into the strings in the dramatic sections but where they really shine are in the lyrical passages which they play with a silken sheen. The five works are more or less of a piece, all identifiably in Atterberg's post-Straussian high-Romantic style. The largest piece is the four movement 'Sinfonia per archi' ('Symphony for Strings') which is a recomposition of an earlier string quintet. In places it reminds me of Elgar's Serenade for Strings. I particularly like II, Allegro molto, with its insistent motto theme that modulates higher and higher as it unwinds.
Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - Cinema per archi (2017)

Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano - Cinema per archi (2017)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 324 MB
Label: Arcana | Tracks: 14 | Time: 72:36 min

‘Oscar™ Cinema’ might be a suitable alternative title for the new album with which the strings of the Santa Cecilia Academy (Archi di Santa Cecilia) under the direction of Luigi Piovano – principal cellist of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and for several years now also much admired as a conductor – begin their collaboration with Arcana, after two recordings for Eloquentia released in 2014 and 2015.