Aspire 2024

Soundway presents a remastering of the 1976 album ‘Ifetayo’ by Black Truth Rhythm Band, with the addition of the single ‘Imo’ included on the 1LP.

Marco Ullstein has his roots in Italy and Germany.

Among Handel's seventeen English oratorios, Theodora (1750) is unique. The story is not taken from the Bible, but is about a Christian martyr. The characteristics of the oratorio are very negative: there is no national triumph and does not end in joy, hero and heroine are dying, the community with which the audience identifies is in mortal danger, and the final chorus is in a minor key.

Credo - a profession of faith, belief, confidence and trust in a time that is challenging for all of us. Faith in the power of music, in art and in the ability to rise up and persevere. These duet recordings were created with these thoughts in mind, making their way through Handel's opera and oratorio duets, right up to the final creative phase of his life.

Marco Ullstein has his roots in Italy and Germany.

Of all the versions, Charpentier’s masterpiece celebrating the glory of Medea is among the most faithful to the grandiose nature of the ancient myth.

Médée, a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly fifty years old and at the height of his career. Louis XIV attended the performance, proving that it was an eagerly awaited event. Yet this sombre drama, which disconcerted the public, was withdrawn after just ten performances, and not heard again until 1976. A specialist in the French repertory and a close associate of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, where he has followed all the advances in research and historically informed performance for thirty-five years, Hervé Niquet has endeavoured, in presenting this new Médée, scrupulously to apply all the scholarly findings available to us today.

Musica Solis has released recording artist, producer, and clarinetist Seunghee Lee's newest album, Intermezzo. Following Lee's GRAMMY® nominated release ASPIRE, the new project features the works of Italian composer Michele Mangani.

«Liveliness of ingenuity and musical virtues». Even in the absence of the baptismal certificate, the birth date of Michel’Angelo Grancini (also known as “Grancino” or “Granzini”), is deduced as 1605, on the basis of two sources: his death certificate and a particular statement contained in the work Ateneo dei Letterati Milanesi (Milan, 1670) by Abbot Filippo Picinelli (1604-1667). From the first document, dated 1669, it is clear that, at the time of his death, Grancini was seventy years old; from the second it is evident that “at the age of 17, being organist in the Church of S. Maria del Paradiso, he began to publish works”.