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ID: ACDBL084-2
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Voices
Key2Singing Foundation was established in May 2010 with the aim of promoting the art of singing in the broadest possible sense of the word.
In terms of singing, we want to organize larger projects. In addition, we seek cooperation between professionals and amateurs.
The educational aspect plays an important role. This is reflected for instance in workshops and master classes. The Foundation also conducts research; For example, in the field of the voice or music to the benefit of our projects. We also want to publish CDs and (sheet) music. All non-profit.
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples on the 26th of October 1685 as the sixth of ten children to parents Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonia Anzalone. Alessandro was already by then a famous composer. It is not clear who taught Domenico music. Perhaps it was Francesco Gasparini, Bernardo Pasquini or even Antonio Vivaldi during his time spent in Venice. Alessandro the father was for a time nominated as director of music at the basilica Santa Maggiore of Rome, and during this period Domenico worked there as his assistant between 1708 and 1709.
While in Rome, Domenico was appointed to the court of the Polish queen Maria Casimira de la Grange d’Anguien, who was at the time in exile there. He wrote a number of vocal works for her, including the opera Tolomeo e Alessandro ovvero La corona disprezzata (1711). In 1713 Domenico was appointed firstly as assistant director of music at the Cappella Giulia of St. Peters in Rome, and subsequently in 1714 as director of music. It is possible that he wrote his ten part Stabat Mater for the Cappella. Notably during the period in which Domenico was working and studying in Rome, he wrote many vocal and orchestral works for both secular and church clients. In addition Domenico seemed to have been a gifted harpsichordist.
It was in these his younger years that Domenico met and became friends with G. F. Handel who was spending a number of years in Italy. Cardinal Ottoboni encouraged the two musicians to enter into a musical duel with each other, the result of which that Scarlatti was declared the best harpsichordist and Handel the best organist. The two composers had great respect for each other. |
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ID: DCD34094
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: BaroqueHandel's musical illustration of Dryden's Alexander's Feast, first performed in 1736, was a critical and popular success. A day after the première, the London Daily Post reported 'Never was upon the like Occasion so numerous and splendid an Audience at any Theatre in London, there being at least 1300 Persons present'.
Twice a year some of the UK's finest baroque players and young vocal soloists come together in Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk to give sell-out concerts of the great works of Bach and Handel. The chorus, handpicked by Will Dawes, comprises a sensational selection of singers from Britain’s finest early music consorts, including the Monteverdi Choir, the Sixteen, Polyphony and the Gabrieli and King’s Consorts.
Ludus Baroque's appearances are unmissable events in Edinburgh's calendar. Now for the first time listeners from further afield can experience the vibrancy of their Festival-fuelled performances in this their debut recording. Alexander's Feast is the perfect showpiece for the vitality and abandon of Ludus Baroque and their rising-star soloists.
Ludus Baroque - baroque chamber orchestra
Sophie Bevan soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
William Berger bass
Richard Neville-Towle conductor
Track listing
Part One (disc 1)
1 Ouverture
2 Recitative (tenor) ‘Twas at the royal feast
3 Air (soprano / tenor) and Chorus Happy, happy, happy pair!
4 Recitative (tenor) Timotheus, plac’d on high
5 Recitative (soprano) The song began from Jove
6 Chorus The list’ning crowd admire the lofty sound
7 Air (soprano) With ravish’d ears the monarch hears
8 Recitative (tenor) The praise of Bacchus
9 Air (bass) and Chorus Bacchus, ever fair and young
10 Recitative (tenor) Sooth’d with the sound, the king grew vain
11 Recitative (soprano) He chose a mournful Muse
12 Air (soprano) He sung Darius, great and good
13 Recitative (soprano) With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
14 Chorus Behold Darius great and good
15 Recitative (tenor) The mighty master smil’d to see
16 Arioso (soprano) Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17 Air (tenor) War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18 Chorus The many rend the skies with loud applause
19 Air (soprano) The prince, unable to conceal his pain
Part Two (disc 2)
1 Recitative (tenor) and Chorus Now strike the golden Lyre again
2 Air (bass) Revenge, Timotheus cries
3 Recitative (tenor) Give the vengeance due
4 Air (tenor) The princes applaud with a furious joy
5 Air (soprano) and Chorus Thais led the way
6 Recitative (tenor) Thus, long ago
7 Grand Chorus At last divine Cecilia came
8 Recitative (tenor / bass) Let old Timotheus yield the prize
9 Chorus Let old Timotheus yield the prize
10 Chorus Your voices tune, and raise them high |
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ID: OAHD5005D
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Type: DVD
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionRecorded live in Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, Sussex, 24th April 1999.
Note: This HD-DVD is not compatible with standard DVD players.
Actors: Cecilia Bartoli, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryn Terfel, Myung-Whun Chung, Joakim Svenheden
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, Dolby, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Subtitles: Dutch, English, French
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 31 Dec 2007
Run Time: 90 minutes
Track list:
Donizetti:
Quanto amore (from L'elisir d'amore)
Handel:
Judas Maccabaeus: Arm, arm ye brave
Haydn:
Al Tuo arrivo felice
Mozart:
Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture
Cinque … dieci… (Le nozze di Figaro)
Si a caso madama (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Se vuol ballare (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio (from La Clemenza di Tito)
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (from Don Giovanni)
La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
Pa-pa-pa-pa-Papagena (from Die Zauberflöte)
Rossini:
Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture
Dunque io son? (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide) |
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ID: KAI0012052
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Orchestr
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ID: PTC5186043
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Podkolekce: Klavír
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186054
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Podkolekce: Voices
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
The White Election
A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano
Composed by Gordon Getty (born 1933)
On Poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
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ID: PTC5186115
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
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Podkolekce: Voices
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: ALBCD009
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Voices
MUSIC IN THE HEART
A commemorative Album marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams on 26th August 1958.
SERENADE TO MUSIC
Recorded live at the Royal Concert on 22 November 1951 in the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Pilgrim’s Journey: Recorded live in the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims on Sunday 4 April 1965
Sopranos: Stiles Allen*, Isobel Baillie*, Ena Mitchell, Elsie Suddaby*; Contraltos: Muriel Brunskill*, Astra Desmond*, Mary Jarred*, Gladys Ripley; Tenors: William Herbert, Richard Lewis, Stephen Manton, Heddle Nash*; Baritone/Bass: Norman Allin*, Robert Easton*, Roy Henderson*, Harold Williams* (* indicates the soloists in the first performance under Sir Henry Wood in 1938)
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams
THE PILGRIM'S JOURNEY
(arranged by Roy Douglas) Recorded live in the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims on Sunday April 4th 1965.
Louis Bové (soprano), Clifford Scott (tenor), John Peck (baritone), Arnold Ostlund Jr.(organ)
Plymouth Choir, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, New York City, Henry Pfohl
This release is a unique and rare recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams conducting his Serenade to Music from a performance in 1951. It is a deeply expressive and romantic interpretation. The Serenade to Music was commissioned by Sir Henry Wood for his Jubilee Concert to celebrate his 50 years as a conductor. The concert took place on October 5th 1938.
The Serenade to Music is one of the sweetest, most beautiful of all Vaughan William’s works.
Also on this recording are the Pilgrim’s Journey and a bonus disc of Vaughan Williams talking about the teachings of Parry and Stanford and a short extract from the funeral service of Vaughan Williams. This recording has been brilliantly re-mastered by Peter Reynolds. |
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