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Handel: Italian Duets / Susanna Rydén, Gemma Bertagnolli, Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-11-13

Works: George Frederick Handel: Work(s); Italian Duets; Va, speme infida, duet for 2 sopranos & continuo, HWV 199; Amor gioje mi porge, for 2 soprano voices & continuo, HWV180; Toccata; Ahi nelle sorti uman...
Performers: Bertagnoli, Gemma [Soprano Vocal]; Ryden, Susanne
Conductors: Astronio, Claudio
Ensemble: Harmonices Mundi

The marvelously affecting Italian Duets have long remained favorites among Handel's oeuvre, distinct markers of the influences of the young Saxon's early trips to Rome...continue...
Recording information: Vereinshaus, Lengmoos, Süd-Tirol (07/26/2009-07/29/2009)....continue...

Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna / Martin Oro, Gemma Bertagnolli, Sergio Foresti, Mirko Guadagnini

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna
Conductors: Astronio, Claudio
Ensemble: Harmonices Mundi

This recording is a powerful and passionate historically informed performance recording by Italian forces, featuring the great Gemma Bertagnolli and Martin Oro. Harmonices Mundi conducted...continue...
Recording information: Schloss Maretsch, Bolzano, Italy (08/10/2011-08/11/2011)....continue...

Stradella: Italian Arias / Susanne Ryden, Martin Oro, Lisandro Abadie

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Alessandro Stradella: Toccata for keyboard in A; E pazzia l'innamorarsi, aria for soprano & continuo; Mio cor, che si fa?, aria for soprano & continuo; Che mi giovan le vittorie, aria for baritone, 2...
Conductors: Astronio, Claudio
Ensemble: Harmonices Mundi

Stradella is credited with composing the first instrumental concerto grosso and operas with accompanied recitatives. But it is perhaps in his vocal works that we...continue...
Recording information: Haus St. Benedikt, Kloster Muri-Gries a Bolzano (03/07/2011-03/10/2011)....continue...

W.F. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos / Claudio Astronio, harpsichord

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2010-05-04

Works: Johann Christian Bach: Concerto for harpsichord & strings in F minor ("Berlin"), CW C73 (T. 301/4); Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in F major, F. 44 (BR C13); Concerto for Harpsichord ...
Performers: Astronio, Claudio; Facchin, Marco
Conductors: Astronio, Claudio

It must have been daunting for J.S Bach's musical sons to work with his huge shadow. The fact that four of his children succeeded in...continue...
Recording information: Haus St. Benedikt, Kloster Muri-Gries a Bolzano (11/14/2009-11/17/2009)....continue...