Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata – Wonder Women (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:18 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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The new opus “Wonder Women” by L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar is dedicated to women.
On the one hand, it is a homage to all the wonderful female composers of the 17th century, but also
to all the talented female musicians of all times who too often had to hide their talent behind their husbands or give up their careers too early.
On the other hand, Christina Pluhar also draws her inspiration from the traditional music of South America and Italy and looked for songs that tell stories about extraordinary, strong, courageous but also sad women.
First and foremost is the wonderful Mexican song “La Bruja” (The Witch), which symbolizes the freedom of all women at all times and in all cultures.
Celebrate women in all their facets and with all their talents together with Luciana Mancini, Céline Scheen, Benedetta Mazzucato, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata
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L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar – Mediterraneo (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:11 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata invite you on a musical cruise that will take you from Portugal to Turkey, following the coasts of Spain, Catalonia, Greece and Italy, caressed by the rocking of the waves and the captivating dialogue between traditional plucked instruments of the Mediterranean region – the qanun, saz, Greek lyre and lavta, the oud and Portuguese guitar – and the Baroque strings of L’Arpeggiata.
Mediterraneo is a musical exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. It features the fabulous voices of Misia, Nuria Rial, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Raquel Andueza and Katerina Papadopoulou who perform traditional tarantellas, sung in Greek. Those folk pieces were a custom in the Baroque era in the Greek-Albanian villages of Calabria. Join Christina Pluhar on this unique musical odyssey.
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L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar – Mediterraneo (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:11 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Records Ltd./Virgin Classics
Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata invite you on a musical cruise that will take you from Portugal to Turkey, following the coasts of Spain, Catalonia, Greece and Italy, caressed by the rocking of the waves and the captivating dialogue between traditional plucked instruments of the Mediterranean region – the qanun, saz, Greek lyre and lavta, the oud and Portuguese guitar – and the Baroque strings of L’Arpeggiata.
Mediterraneo is a musical exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. It features the fabulous voices of Misia, Nuria Rial, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Raquel Andueza and Katerina Papadopoulou who perform traditional tarantellas, sung in Greek. Those folk pieces were a custom in the Baroque era in the Greek-Albanian villages of Calabria. Join Christina Pluhar on this unique musical odyssey.
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Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata, Philippe Jaroussky – Passacalle de la Follie (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:55 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
With their album Passacalle de la Follie, star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata immerse themselves in the French court music of the 17th century and give it drive and new life. The dream team Jaroussky, Pluhar and ensemble has been around for 15 years with successful albums, joint concerts, and consistently enthusiastic audience responses. On this album, Jaroussky interprets the gallant love poems, which often hide erotic allusions behind their verses inspired by Ovid. The Air de Cour as court music and love poetry of the time, in its high artistic flowering, formed a counterweight to the political tensions in Baroque France. While wars and intrigues determined everyday life, the royal court, thanks to refined and refined arts, transported the court nobility to an island of the blissful. The musical works of the composers of the French royal court, including airs by Pierre Guédron, Antoine Boësset and Michel Lambert Boësset and Michel Lambert.
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Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata – Handel Goes Wild (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:30 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Handel goes wild”, that’s putting it mildly: in Christina Pluhar’s album, he goes wild to quite some extremes! Indeed the Austrian harpist, theorbist, and lute player picked a handful of Handel’s (and a bit of Vivaldi’s) arias, concerto movements and overtures, and put them not only in the hands of baroque musicians of the L’Arpeggiata Ensemble, but also of half a dozen jazz musicians of various styles. The result is a reinterpretation, in turn gypsy, Klezmer, salsa, New Orleans jazz, lounge, blues and so on, that everyone can either love or hate depending on their own degree of adaptability. Undeniably using a clarinet and piano in this language can be confusing for some… But Pluhar’s approach is simple: Handel himself reused, reshaped, tinkered, disguised, ransacked and rewrote, using both the works of other composers and his own, always with his own personal approach and the most immediate style of his time. So why not do the same nowadays?! In any case, this mixture of baroque instruments and voices with 20th-century instruments and genres is breathtaking. The artists invited include clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi, pianist Francesco Turrisi and bass player Boris Schmidt in the field of jazz, but also countertenor Valer Barna-Sabadus and soprano Nuria Rial.
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L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar – Pluhar: Orfeo Chamán (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:23 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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A unique retelling of the Orpheus myth drawing on Baroque music and folksongs from South America to Sicily, with a real-life Orfeo – the blind Argentinean singer-guitarist Nahuel Pennisi – in the title role. The resulting opera composed and arranged by Christina Pluhar reveals the mysterious shamanic side of the legendary musician who ventures into the underworld for love.
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