La Nuova Musica, David Bates, Tim Mead, Fleur Barron, Giulia Semenzato, Nicky Spence – Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:31 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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La Nuova Musica is one of the most versatile performing groups of its kind.
We strive to reveal new aspects of familiar repertoire, expose lesser-known works from the Baroque and Classical periods and showcase new commissions through dynamic performances and recordings.
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Giulia Semenzato, Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Resonanz & Riccardo Minasi – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater – Rossell: Salve Regina (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:22 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Here is the work of a genius who died at the age of twenty-six: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is one of the miracles of eighteenth-century sacred music. Nourished by their experience of ‘setting in resonance’ early and contemporary repertories, Riccardo Minasi and the Hamburg musicians shed an astonishingly modern light on these moving pieces, in which the voices of Giulia Semenzato and Lucile Richardot intertwine in the most sublime of communions. The Stabat is echoed by Joan Rossell’s poignant Salve Regina, long attributed to Pergolesi himself.
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Giulia Semenzato – Logroscino: Stabat Mater – Concerto per flauto – Cantata “Ecco l’ara, ecco il nume” (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:12 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arcana
Composed 25 years after the celebrated work of the same name by Pergolesi, and for the same forces, the Stabat Mater by Nicola Logroscino (pronounced “Logròscino”) belongs to the long list of compositions born of the Neapolitan school, beginning with the model by Alessandro Scarlatti (1723). Although inspired by its illustrious precedents, this work distinguishes itself in its strong theatrical character, derived from the author’s long experience in opera (especially comic opera), of which he was a leading figure until the mid-eighteenth century. His Stabat Mater thus seems to be a veritable synthesis of operatic style, whereby lengthy arias alternate with lively duets, and passages of almost folk origins alternate with very simple recitatives.
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Giulia Semenzato & Kammerorchester Basel – Angelica diabolica (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:36 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Giulia Semenzato, already renowned for her interpretations of the Baroque repertory and her Mozartian roles, presents here her first solo album. The programme, entitled Angelica diabolica , is devoted to the female protagonists of Ludovico Ariosto, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso , whose emblematic figure is Angelica, a revolutionary heroine, ready to resort to any trick in order to regain her freedom. After the Baroque Rome of Luigi Rossi and his opera Il palazzo incantato (1642), we turn to the galant style of Naples with Nicola Porpora’s serenata Angelica (1720), then to Milan in 1702 with the warlike heroine of Bernardo Sabadini’s opera Angelica nel Catai , before a more melancholy take on the character by Agostino Steffani (1691). These rare numbers rub shoulders with more familiar arias by Georg Friedrich Handel, sung by the heroines of his operas Orlando, Ariodante, Amadigi di Gaula, not to mention the famous enchantress Alcina. Alongside the Kammerorchester Basel, Giulia Semenzato deploys all her virtuosity, vocal agility and feeling for words to slip into the shoes of these women, by turns angelic and diabolical.
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