Giuliano Carmignola, Accademia dell’Annunciata & Riccardo Doni – The Three Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:29:37 minutes | 4,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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The violin concerto accompanied Vivaldi throughout his life. And more than any other genre, the circa 220 extant violin concertos reflect the biographical and professional events relating to the “Red Priest”. Hence the idea – proposed, we believe, for the first time on disc – of recording 18 concertos, divided into three “seasons” that illustrate the evolution of Vivaldi’s art through the three different stages of his career: the early years, his maturity and the late period.
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Giuliano Carmignola, Sol Gabetta, Dejan Lazic – Beethoven: Triple Concerto (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 942 MB | Genre: Classical
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Cello superstar Sol Gabetta teams up with the celebrated musicians Giuliano Carmignola, violin, and Dejan Lazić, piano, to form a formidably talented ensemble for this new all-Beethoven recording. They will be joined by conductor Giovanni Antonini and the Kammerorchester Basel, a team who have great pedigree recording Beethoven’s works to critical acclaim.
The centrepiece of this album is Beethoven’s ‘Triple Concerto’, the Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 56. The choice of the three solo instruments effectively makes this a concerto for piano trio, and it is the only concerto Beethoven ever completed for more than one solo instrument.
The album also includes a number of Beethoven’s most well-known overtures. The famous Coriolan Overture features alongside ‘The Creatures of Prometheus’ and the Egmont overtures.
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Giuliano Carmignola, Mario Brunello, Accademia dell’Annunciata & Riccardo Doni – Bach & Vivaldi: Sonar in ottava. Double Concertos for Violin and Violoncello Piccolo (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:58 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Violinist Giuliano Carmignola and cellist Mario Brunello: one of the greatest interpreters of Vivaldi and Bach, whose recent recording of the Sonatas and Partitas was described by the authoritative magazine Gramophone as ‘a definite first choice among period instrument recordings of these works’; and his long-time friend Mario Brunello, acclaimed for his personal reinterpretation of that same famous collection on the violoncello piccolo (A469).
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Giuliano Carmignola, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Vivaldi: con moto (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:19 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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Despite the popularity of works such as The Four Seasons and La Stravaganza, many of Vivaldi’s 250 concertos for violin remain largely unknown. The new recordings of the concertos RV 187 and 281 are based on Vivaldi’s original manuscript scores and capture the thrilling spontaneity of his compositional style. The concerto RV283 also includes a previously unpublished cadenza from the notebook of Vivaldi’s protégé Anna Maria. Very much a man of the 21st Century, Giuliano Carmignola combines his passion for the baroque with his love of motorcycling, which he calls, “Vivaldi con moto – motion and emotion from a MOTOcyclist-musician.”
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Giuliano Carmignola – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:04 minutes | 2,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout the last decades Giuliano Carmignola has earned his reputation as one of the top interpreters of Baroque music.
With this interpretation of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Carmignola, dubbed “a prince among Baroque violinists” (Gramophone), adds the first period-instrument recording of these works to DG’s rich catalogue.
Following his critically acclaimed recording of the Bach Concertos, he finally records the composer’s virtuosic masterpieces for solo violin, the ultimate affirmation of a violinist’s artistry.
His deep sympathy for the music is evident in his passionate and introspective approach to these pieces.
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Concerto Koln, Giuliano Carmignola – Bach: Violin Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:42 minutes | 854 MB | Genre: Classical, Violin
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This captivating new Bach release will become a timeless piece of music which can only come from the outstanding combination of Giuliano Carmignola and Concerto Köln.
Though presenting a traditional piece, Carmignola and Concerto Köln bring new and outstanding colours into this often recorded repertoire, and their temperamental performance introduces a sparkling and thrilling interpretation of Bach’s concertos. Carmignola’s fiery and successful “Vivaldi con moto” will be continued with a more subtle and traditional Bach Concerto recording, a Co-Production between Deutsche Grammophon and Deutschlandfunk.
Carmignola is a unique artist and one of today’s most charismatic and captivating violinists, prompting The Strad to say “Timing is everything, and Carmignola has the timing of Sinatra. Rubato, portamento, pauses, tight-rope showmanship.”
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Giuliano Carmignola – Bach: 6 Suites a Violoncello Solo Senza Basso (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:18:38 minutes | 2,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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An eminent interpreter of Vivaldi, Giuliano Carmignola has always had a great affinity with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as can be heard in his landmark recordings of the Violin Sonatas with Andrea Marcon (2002), the Violin Concertos with Concerto Köln (2014, Diapason d’or), and the Sonatas & Partitas (2018), which Gramophone judged to be “a first-rate choice among the recordings of these works on period instruments, despite the competition”. Carmignola’s latest project took shape during the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and offers a new and sometimes experimental reading of Bach’s Suites à Violoncello Solo senza Basso , in which he highlights new details and exalts the choreatic character and the brilliance of many of the suites’ movements. Having already assured the success of Sonar in Ottava (A472) with his long-time friend Mario Brunello, this recording is the first of a series of solo projects that Carmignola will realise for Arcana.
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Giuliano Carmignola, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon – Vivaldi, Locatelli, Tartini: Concerto Veneziano (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:57 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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This disc is really something special. Collectors are so spoiled for choice in the baroque repertoire at present, particularly on period instruments, but even in a glutted market this disc stands out for imaginative repertoire selection and outstanding interpretation. Its particularly gratifying, in these days of complete editions of everything, to see a discerning artist like Giuliano Carmignola choose four remarkably diverse works by three different composers, and simply play the living daylights out of them. The result roundly disproves the notion that Italian baroque violin concertos all sound the same, a point made even more forcefully by imaginative continuo work (on harpsichord, lute, and organ) by the Venice Baroque Orchestra that helps to emphasize each pieces individual character. The two Vivaldi concertos, for example, couldnt be more different. RV 583, subtitled in due cori, is a dialogue between the soloist and the two opposing orchestral groups, sometimes elegant, often virtuosic, and Carmignolas account of the beautiful central chaconne is haunting. The E minor concerto RV 278, on the other hand, is dramatic, passionate, and intense almost to the point of lunacy in its outer movements. The entry of the solo is a moment of high drama that Carmignola clearly relishes, and the entire work often sounds more like one of the more emotive and spasmodic creations of C.P.E. Bach than it does the coolly patterned tune-making of The Red Priest. The orchestra attacks this later work with an unbridled ferocity that never turns crude, and both concertos enjoy the distinction of ranking among Vivaldis largest, lasting nearly 15 minutes apiece.
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Giuliano Carmignola, Amandine Beyer, Gli incogniti – Vivaldi: Concerti per due violini (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:03 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vivaldi’s double concertos resemble jousts: ‘the standards are raised, the bystanders comment, analyse, compare, speculate, the betting counter is open’, writes Olivier Fourés. But, he continues, the joust is not for real. It is ‘the stage of a theatre where two solitudes, within a group, meet up, then both size each other up and comfort each other’. There is bound to be comparison between the two protagonists, but in the end the triumph will be collective. And the least one can say is that Amandine Beyer and her illustrious guest Giuliano Carmignola have breathed new life into this dazzling form of musical theatre!
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