il Fidco 2024

Brazilian flutist James Strauss has made a remarkable impact on the classical music scene, emerging as a leading solo artist and advocate for both the concerto repertoire and chamber music.

Roberto Fabbriciani is one of the most versatile, original and innovative flautists of his generation. He has collaborated with some of the major composers of our time including Berio, Boulez, Cage, Dallapiccola, Donatoni, Ferneyhough, Huber, Krenek, Kurtág, Ligeti, Maderna, Messiaen, Morricone, Petrassi, Rihm, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stockhausen and Takemitsu, many of whom have dedicated works to him.

For her first solo album on Linn – she has appeared with her Duo Pleyel partner Richard Egarr on three occasions, and more will come! – Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya has taken the bold route of recording the little-known Gottlieb Muffat. Son of Georg Muffat, who most Baroque aficionados will know, Gottlieb attained far greater success in his working life, ultimately being promoted to first organist of the Austrian Habsburg court. In this double album Alexandra has recorded the lavish Componimenti musicali per il cembalo , a collection of seven ‘suites’ that are rich in texture, emotional range and flamboyant decoration. Carefully notated in the magnificent score, the breathtaking ornamentation is there to add expressiveness to the performance. These works represent one of the pinnacles of keyboard music from the mid-eighteenth century, and deserve their place in the repertoire.

Six years have passed since Swiss-based duo Klaus Johann Grobe’s last long player Du bist so symmetrisch. Io tu il loro, their fourth album for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records was written over two weeks in a cabin at the very end of a remote Swiss valley, where the duo came up with their debut full-length Im Sinne der Zeit album in 2014. What started out as simply making music again quickly turned into seriously making a new album. Once decided, the whole thing was finished rather quickly and recorded at David Langhard’s Dala Studio at the end of 2022.

L'edizione internazionale di AD ASTRA, disponibile da venerdì 29 novembre, contiene 5 nuovi brani: tra i momenti salienti ci sono le note dorate di Now We Are Free, il tema iconico del film Gladiator di Ridley Scott, composto da Hans Zimmer, oltre a classici americani senza tempo come The Sound of Silence e Hallelujah, rielaborati con arrangiamenti originali di M. Tenisci e S. Marletta. L'album include anche una collaborazione speciale con la rinomata soprano Pretty Yende in Amazing Grace e una versione in inglese del loro singolo di successo Capolavoro. AD ASTRA è un vero e proprio abito fatto su misura, cucito sulle tre distinte e complementari personalità di Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto e Gianluca Ginoble. Un progetto discografico unico nel suo genere, nato da un intenso lavoro condiviso con un eccezionale team composto da alcuni dei più importanti autori e producer del momento.

20th anniversary album of all new material, including a new original song, by globally renowned classical crossover group Il Divo. First album with new member Steven LaBrie, after the passing of founding member Carlos Marin in 2020. Il Divo takes flight in 2024 with their 10th full-length album, “XX.” Once again, they leap forward creatively, expanding the style and vision all at once.

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Ceruleo celebrate the music of Barbara Strozzi, one of the greatest composers of the seventeenth century, and the most published composer of secular song of her time.