Cappella Mediterranea

Cappella Mediterranea - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Cappella Mediterranea - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 106:18 minutes | 2,05 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is naturally an iconic work for Leonardo García Alarcón. The Argentinian conductor has performed and matured his interpretation of Monteverdi’s masterpiece throughout his life. Together with his group of soloists, the Namur Chamber Choir and the Cappella Mediterranea ensemble, he now presents his vision of L’Orfeo: Monteverdi’s opera is as much the apotheosis of the Renaissance as a testimony to the nascent Baroque style.

Sonya Yoncheva & Cappella Mediterranea - Rebirth (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 11, 2021
Sonya Yoncheva & Cappella Mediterranea - Rebirth (2021)

Sonya Yoncheva & Cappella Mediterranea - Rebirth (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 330 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 Mb | 01:07:33
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Recorded during the first Corona lockdown, Sonya Yoncheva's project emerged from silence with an urge for a "rebirth that our world desperately needs at present, something that it achieves by drawing on the very deepest recesses of the human psyche and on its origins in music and the arts". - SY
Cappella Mediterranea, Clematis, L'Achéron, Vox Luminis, Doulce Mémoire - Cipriano de Rore: Ancor che col partire (2015)

Cappella Mediterranea, Clematis, L'Achéron, Vox Luminis, Doulce Mémoire, Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Cipriano de Rore: Ancor che col partire (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 308 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC355 | Recorded: 2014

The works of Cipriano de Rore (1515/16 – 1565) remained extremely popular until well after his death. Several of his madrigals later appeared in dozens of ornamented versions and continued to do so until the beginning of the 17th century; this was an extraordinary success for the time.
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Cappella Mediterranea, Clematis - Gioseffo Zamponi: Ulisse all'Isola di Circe (2014)

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea, Clematis, Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Gioseffo Zamponi: Ulisse all'Isola di Circe (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 672 Mb | Total time: 138:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC342 | Recorded: 2012

Ulisse all’isola di Circe was the first opera to be staged in the Southern Netherlands. It was first performed in Brussels on the occasion of Philip IV of Spain’s wedding to Maria-Anna of Austria on 24 February 1650, although we know that the spectacle was revived in 1655 at the express wish of Queen Christina of Sweden. Gioseffo Zamponi was most likely born in Rome between 1610 and 1620. He made his career in the Southern Netherlands, entering the service of Archduke Leopold-Wilhelm, governor of the Netherlands, in 1648, for whose establishment he composed sacred music and also played.
Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon - Monteverdi-Piazzolla: Una Utopia Argentina (2012) [24bit/96kHz]

Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón - Monteverdi-Piazzólla: Una Utopia Argentina (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 71:41 minutes | 1,42 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This innovative programme, created at Ambronay Festival in 2009 by the Argentine Leonardo García Alarcón chief sees musicians alternate between baroque and modern instruments to interpret the most beautiful pages of Astor Piazzólla (Milonga del Angel, Ballada para un loco) and Claudio Monteverdi (Lamento della ninfa, Orfeo). During the extensive live tour of this project in 2009, members of the audience pointed out that in the end they didn't know where Monteverdi stopped and Piazzolla began.
Leonardo García Alarcón & Cappella Mediterranea - Sacrati: La Finta Pazza (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Leonardo García Alarcón & Cappella Mediterranea - Sacrati: La Finta Pazza (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 148:18 minutes | 2,76 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download

The story of the incredible success of La Finta Pazza in Venice in 1641 is often attributed to the presence of the diva Anna Renzi and to Torelli’s incredible stage machinery. However, a show with an excellent singer and an impressive machinery is nothing without remarkable music. As soon as I discovered this score, which has almost never been performed recently, I immediately understood the surprising quality of this music and why it had such an impact on young King Louis XIV.
Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón - Arcadelt: Missa Noe Noe (2023) [24/192]

Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón - Arcadelt: Missa Noe Noe (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 62:30 minutes | 1,79 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ricercar, Official Digital Download

Given that not one of the Masses by Jacques Arcadelt was included in our boxed set that revealed his immense musical personality to the world, we now remedy this situation with an indispensable addition. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon chose the Missa Noe Noe, which is presented here in the context of the Christmas liturgy. We have also included motets not only by Arcadelt but also by Josquin Desprez, as he was the great model for musicians of his generation. The recording ends resoundingly with Josquin's imposing Benedicta es coelorum regina for six voices, although in an expanded version for twelve voices by Jean Guyot de Chatelet (1512 - 1588): another Walloon composer to be discovered!
Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón - Arcadelt: Missa Noe Noe (2023)

Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón - Arcadelt: Missa Noe Noe (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 240 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | 01:02:30
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ricercar

Given that not one of the Masses by Jacques Arcadelt was included in our boxed set that revealed his immense musical personality to the world, we now remedy this situation with an indispensable addition. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon chose the Missa Noe Noe, which is presented here in the context of the Christmas liturgy. We have also included motets not only by Arcadelt but also by Josquin Desprez, as he was the great model for musicians of his generation. The recording ends resoundingly with Josquin's imposing Benedicta es coelorum regina for six voices, although in an expanded version for twelve voices by Jean Guyot de Chatelet (1512 - 1588): another Walloon composer to be discovered!
Léonardo García Alarcón, Ensemble Clematis, Cappella Mediterranea - Matheo Romero: Romerico Florido (2010)

Léonardo García Alarcón, Ensemble Clematis, Cappella Mediterranea - Matheo Romero: Romerico Florido (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 61:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC308 | Recorded: 2010

Born in Liège, Matheo Romero was in the service of the Spanish court; his secular works show that he had perfectly assimilated the characteristics of his adopted country’s music. Composed at the very beginning of the baroque era, these romances, folias and canciones also show the influence of the Italian madrigal style and of its effects; just as in the madrigals proper, Nature is the prime inspiration for the texts’ professions of love and amorous deceptions. For the first time, the talented Argentinean conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón brings together his two ensembles: the voices of Capella Mediterranea and Ens. Clematis. This combination revives the tradition of Spanish chapels around the reign of Charles V in Madrid. A meeting of the Capilla Flamenca and Capilla Spagnola.
Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea - Barbara Strozzi: Virtusissima compositrice (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 60:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambronay Éditions | # AMY020 | Recorded: 2008

The virtuoso Venetian diva of the 17th century, Barbara Strozzi, Monteverdi's heiress, journeys the passions of the soul through a daring mosaic of styles and rhythms. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, who is one of the rising generation of baroque conductors, is leading a major research project on the specific parameters which make up musical performance, paying particular attention to improvisation techniques and the relationship between text and music. His work at the Ambronay Festival has focused on the performance of 17th-century Italian music including rich and little-known repertoire of motets and madrigals by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda and Antonia Bembo.