Comim, Flavio

Flavio Boltro (born May 5, 1961) is an Italian trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player. Flavio Boltro starts playing trumpet at 9 years old and then enters the Turin school of Classical Music "G.Verdi". During 7 years, he studied classical trumpet, especially with Carlo Arfinengo, trumpet player of Turin's Symphonic Orchestra.

Little is known about the life of Domenico Zanatta (c1665-1748). He was most probably born in Venice, as the title pages of his manuscripts seem to attest, printing his first collection of sonatas at the tender age of 24. However, he also had a second endeavour and a great mastery of the cantata genre where his melodic inventiveness freely flows, continuing the tradition of his Venetian colleagues in a worthy way. Flavio Ferri-Benedetti and Musica Fiorita, under Daniela Dolci, present some of his pieces interspersed with works by Cavalli, Strozzi, who was a pupil of Cavalli, and Fontana: a pioneer of the, then new, stile recitativo.

Due fratelli. Due guerrieri. La brutale lotta per il potere è cominciata. I secolo d.C. Correo e Flavio sono fratellastri, figli di un acclamato generale: Appio Giuliano, comandante della decima legione. Correo, figlio di una schiava, è un guerriero abilissimo, destinato a eccellere. Flavio, nobile di nascita, deve lottare senza sosta per avere successo. Sono due facce diverse della stessa medaglia; capi opposti destinati a percorrere strade parallele, tracciate sin dalla nascita. Entrambi puntano al ruolo di centurioni, una posizione che Flavio ritiene sua per diritto e che Correo ha a lungo desiderato, e affronteranno insieme la brutale realtà della guerra. Combattere i barbari si rivelerà pericoloso, non solo per i loro corpi, ma anche per le loro anime…

After playing and singing the Mingus’s Freedom, in his solo album recorded during the pandemic («Isolation», Caligola 2281), Matteo Mosolo felt the need, in the centenary of the birth of one of the masters of modern jazz (1922–2022), to pay homage to him by writing a suite for double bass and trumpet in nine movements, which in a humble and respectful way tries to tell in a personal way the life and works of a restless soul but full of love as Charles Mingus. "There is no musician in the world of jazz" – the double bass player from Udine told us – "who managed to excite me in such a strong and definitive way as he did".

One of the most significant musical figures in mid-17th-century Rome, Giacomo Carissimi was a prolific composer of motets and cantatas, who also greatly influenced the developments of the Latin oratorio. This set brings together his 28 motets that were published under the title Arion Romanus by Giovanni Battista Mocchi, a student and loyal admirer of Carissimi. Arion was an ancient Greek bard and musician, who, in Greek and Roman mythology, was thrown overboard by pirates and rescued by a dolphin. In the liner notes that accompany this collection, the authors draw fascinating parallels between Arion and Carissimi himself: both were accomplished, charismatic and influential artists and musicians, and just as Arion was plunged into the depths of the sea, Carissimi explored the depths of the sacred music tradition to create a perfect synthesis of spiritual contemplation and intense emotional expression. The motets from the Arion Romanus collection also showcase his mastery of a wide range of formal structures, from the concertato to the madrigal.