Valentina Vanini & Giuseppina Coni – Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Liriche da camera e opera pianistiche (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:31:33 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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The duo formed by Valentina Vanini (half soprano) and Giuseppina Coni (piano) is the protagonist of this recording dedicated to the Florentine composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, including chamber lyrics and piano pieces. All the compositions collected in this double CD saw the light in the early twentieth century, and more precisely between 1913 and 1928. A kaleidoscopic panorama of impressions and emotions – from the evocation of the childhood world, to the poetic themes of great breadth up, to the pictorial evocations of the great Italian schools of the past – unravels in the succession of pieces, characterized by a very refined musical style, often not simple but incredibly fascinating and evocative. Not conventionally counted as part of the “Generazione dell’ottanta”, in reality Castelnuovo-Tedesco pursues the same ideals and intentions (because of his studies with Ildebrando Pizzetti), which are fully manifested in these compositions, superbly interpreted by the Vanini-Coni duo.
Read moreThe Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips – John Sheppard: Missa Cantate (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:19 minutes | 3,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded to celebrate The Tallis Scholars’ 50th Anniversary, John Sheppard’s exuberant Missa Cantate is an ideal work to highlight their pioneering achievements. The Tallis Scholars first album of music by John Sheppard, released in 1989, created a new icon of English Renaissance polyphony – Media vita. Their second Sheppard album may well do the same for his only Votive Antiphon on a festal scale, Gaude virgo Christiphera.
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