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Giuseppe Valentini - Concerti Grossi e a Quattro Violini, Op. 7
Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 396 MB | Full Artwork: 110 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Zig Zag # ZZT2020801 | Country/Year: France 2007
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

"Ensemble 415 is a chamber ensemble devoted largely to the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. The numerical reference in the group's name derives from the pitch used for tuning instruments in the Baroque era. In performing chamber music, Ensemble 415 consists of just a few players, but for larger compositions, the number expands to a minimum of 13 and can reach up to as high as 40 performers. The ensemble's repertory has been broad over the years, taking in many Baroque standards by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, as well as lesser known fare by Muffat and others…"

Italian violinist Enrico Gatti has made various recordings of the late Baroque violin repertory with Ensemble 415 and other groups, and his booklet notes, as encrusted with decorations as the music itself, are always part of the attraction. Here he holds forth, in English, French, and German translations of the original Italian, on Giuseppe Tartini's life and career, heading his reflections with an Emily Dickinson poem (unfortunately somewhat less effective in German) and diverging into such avenues as an attack on daily newspaper journalism as it pertains to Baroque music.

Götz Alsmann is back. With a brand new, "L.I.E.B.E." titled studio album, his sixth overall for the renowned jazz label Blue Note. Of course he was never gone. But in recent years the master of the German jazz hit has shown himself to be more internationally oriented musically on records and in live concerts. First “In Paris” (2011), then “On Broadway” (2014) and most recently “In Rom” (2017) he explored the song worlds of these metropolises and countries, always congenially provided with corresponding German lyrics.

Fresh from playing keyoards for select live dates with The Egyptian Lover, San Diego based music producer releases his first 12" album "Yellow Light District" on Record Label Records. Drawing influences from electronic pioneers such as Giorgio Moroder, Black Devil Disco Club, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Bruce Haack and Kraftwerk, Brian E delivers an original dance album that takes notice to it's predicessors while expanding upon their ideas. "Yellow Light District" is breath of fresh air for modern electro/disco… A would-be classic had it been made 30 years prior.