Pesar va Morgh e Mahikhar

Raymond Leppard’s second and more renowned contribution to the modern revival of Cavalli: a classic among Baroque opera recordings which won the coveted Rosette award from the Penguin Record Guide. In 1651, seven years after Ormindo (also reissued by Eloquence in Leppard’s recording, 482 9382), Cavalli and his librettist Faustini scored another hit with the hungry but demanding Venetian opera public with a tale from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The change that all of Ovid’s central characters undergo is in this case suffered by the nymph Calisto, who is rejected by the goddess Diana, turned into a bear by the Furies and back into a human by Jupiter, who finally sets her among the stars in reward for her patience and her love.

Frédéric Chopin was the most famous composer of Polish origin in the history of Western concert music. He was a progressive who revolutionized the harmonic content, the texture, and the emotional quality of the small piano piece, turning light dance forms, nocturnes, and study genres into profound works that were both daring and deeply inward. Born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin to a French father and a Polish mother, probably on March 1, 1810, he was a native of Zelazowa Wola village west of Warsaw.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as empfindsamer Stil or 'sensitive style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. His dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered galant style also then in vogue.

Chegar no sambódromo com samba no pé e com o gogó afinado é fundamental para apreciar de forma completa sua diversão no Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro.

Carlo Ipata, inveterate searcher out of unjustly forgotten musical scores, directs 'Il Bajazet', an important three-act opera by Francesco Gasparini - which shows marked influences of the Roman Arcadian School of the Baroque. Ipata conducts the orchestra of his own Auser Musici for this new Glossa recording, made in conjunction with performances which took place at last year s Opera Festival in Barga. The score used is that for the 1719 dramma in musica performed in Reggio Emilia, as updated by Gasparini to accommodate the starry Baroque talents of Francesco Borosini, Antonio Bernacchi, Marianna Bulgarelli and Faustina Bordoni.

Sleep another 10 days, and then it's finally over, The Qontinent. But which artist should turn when and when? With these we have finished the timetable of The Qontinent 2017!

"Tutto è cominciato quando avevo undici anni, con un documentario sulla vita e il lavoro di Stephen Hawking. Ricordo ancora la sensazione di meraviglia e di inquietudine nello scoprire che domande come "è nato prima il tempo o l'Universo? E quale sarà il loro destino?" non riguardavano solo la filosofia, ma anche la fisica. A distanza di ventitré anni, quando di sera esco e alzo gli occhi al cielo, sono ancora quelle le emozioni che mi accompagnano: meraviglia e un po' di paura. È come se vedessi tutto: le infinite galassie che popolano il vuoto cosmico, i buchi neri, e più oltre, a circondarci come un guscio, la radiazione cosmica di fondo, la nenia celeste da cui tutto è venuto.

One of the most distinguished figures of the Classical period, the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) was revered by 18th-century listeners and musicians for the charm, elegance and lyrical beauty of his music. Although his legacy has been undervalued in modern times, this new 37 CD box set, the most comprehensive on the market, invites listeners to rediscover the distinctive musical voice and graceful style that won Boccherini acclaim during his own lifetime.