Jose Maria Lo Monaco, Stile Galante & Stefano Aresi – Nicola Porpora: Music for the Venetian Ospedaletto (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:36 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Founded in 1528, the Ospedaletto was the youngest and smallest of the four famous Venetian orphanages that excelled in musical performance. Nicola Porpora worked there from 1743 to 1747, where he met the highly talented singer Angiola Moro, known as “Anzoletta”, for whom he created particularly demanding solo parts. The mezzo-soprano Josè Maria Lo Monaco has taken on these parts by Anzoletta and presents two virtuoso cantatas and a Salve Regina here, accompanied by Stile Galante under the direction of Stefano Aresi.
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Ann Hallenberg, Stefano Aresi, Stile Galante – The Farinelli Manuscript (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:02 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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With “The Farinelli Manuscript” Ann Hallenberg, accompanied by Stefano Aresi and Stile Galante, offers a scintillating reading of the music known to have been sung by the castrato Carlo Broschi during his 23-year stay in Spain (and sent as a present to the Empress Maria Theresa). Described as “a force of nature”, displaying flawless coloratura and a purity of timbre, the Swedish mezzo-soprano follows her previous appearance on Glossa with Aresi (a recording devoted to music associated with the later castrato Luigi Marchesi) with a spirited demonstration of the musicality which so attracted Farinelli to listeners at the Spanish court.
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