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Milano Musica Festival, Vol. 6: Ligeti, Kurtag, Bartok, Eotvos, et al.

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2011-11-08

Works: György Ligeti: Chamber Concerto, for 13 instruments; György Kurtág: Moments musicaux (6), for string quartet, Op. 44; Béla Bartók: Out of Doors, suite for piano, Sz. 81, BB 8...
Performers: Arciuli, Emanuele; Caroli, Mario; Casati, Giorgio; Gaggero, Luigi
Conductors: Octors, Georgea;
Ensemble: Ictus Ensemble; Keller Quartet

Antonio Vivaldi: 4 Seasons of Love

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2011-03-08

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Violin in D minor; Concerto for strings & continuo in C major, RV 114
Performers: Il Tempio Armonico; Monti, Davide; Rasi, Alberto
Conductors: Rasi, Alberto

Il Tempio Armonico, a well-known Italian ensemble devoted to the orchestral repertoire of the European Baroque, rediscovers the deepest essence of The Four Seasons with...continue...
Recording information: Villa Verità Fraccaroli Il Boschetto, San Pietro di Lav (03/12/2010-03/15/2010)....continue...

Giulio Castagnoli: Missa Sancti Evasii

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-08-10

Works: Giulio Castagnoli: Missa Sancti Evasii, for solo voices, chorus & orchestra; Cantico Notturno, for 12 voices, percussion & electronics; Canti Pisani (3), for 6 voices, percussion & electronics; Madri...
Performers: Balbinutti, Riccardo; Hein, Folkmar; Omar, Maurizio Ben; Prati, Walter
Conductors: Chiavazza, Claudio; Jais, Ruben; Pavese, Carlo; Peelman, Roland
Ensemble: ; Hong Kong Virtuosi; Syrin Ensemble, Stockholm

This new release from Stradivarius includes one of Castagnoli's newest masterpieces, the Missa Sancti Evasii (2007), in which he melts together an ecstatic religious, joyous...continue...
Recording information: Studioclassic di Emilio Borsoi....continue...

Giulio Caccini: Il Cantar d'Affetto

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-01-12

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Saltarello; Giulio Caccini: Mentre che fra doglie e pene, for voice & continuo; Queste Lagrim'amare; Sfogava Con Le Stelle; Non ha'l ciel; Amor, io parto; Nuove musiche e nuova ma...
Performers: Ansermet, Claudine; Cherici, Paolo

Marescotti published Giulio Caccini's collection Le nuove musiche in Florence in 1602. Caccini's collection embodies the new way of composing and the new manner of...continue...
Recording information: Villa Bradamante, Parzanica, Bergamo, Italy (03/2009)....continue...

Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / De Labyrintho

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2009-11-10

Works: Josquin Desprez: Salve Regina, motet for 5 parts; Missa "Hercules Dux Ferrariae", for 4 parts; Virgo salutiferi genitrix/Ave Maria, motet for 5 parts; Miserere mei deus (Psalm 51), motet for 5 parts
Conductors: Testolin, Walter
Ensemble: De Labyrintho

Stradivarius presents another amazing disc performed by Ensemble De Labyrintho. This is music that explores man's most intimate feelings, and creates unequalled depths of emotion....continue...

Gesualdo: Responsoria / De Labyrintho

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2009-08-11

Works: Carlo Gesualdo: Hei mihi, Domine; Responsoria ad officium hebdomadæ; Peccantem me quotidie; Ave Dulcissima Maria, motet; Vittorio Ghielmi: Memento mei, Deus (Responsorium); Elevamini portæ...

Gesualdo da Venosa dedicated his life to music. He was tortured by guilt for much of his life, and he may have given expression to...continue...

Scelsi Collection Vol 3 - Ballata, Hymnos, Aion / Ceccherini, Naqqara Percussion Ensemble, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2009-07-14

Works: Giacinto Scelsi: Aiôn "Four Episodes in one Day of Brahma", for orchestra; Hymnos; Pezzi (4) for Orchestra; Ballata, for cello & piano
Performers: Dillon, Francesco
Conductors: Ceccherini, Tito
Ensemble: Ensemble di Percussioni Naqqara; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Here is proof of Giacinto Scelsi's experience of sound: more than half of his works are composed of pieces for solo instruments, about a quarter...continue...

Lirum Li Tronc - Sordellina, Colascione, Buttafuoco in Renaissance Naples / Esposti, Squillante, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2009-05-12

Works: Anonymous: Haveva 'na gallina, villanella; 'No gallo con 'no grillo, villanella; Work(s); Tarantela; Orlande de Lassus: O Lucia miau (morescha), villanelle for 3 voices, S. x/70; Anonymous, Italian: ...
Performers: Sorini, Simone; Vitale, Marcelo

From the middle of the 15th century in Naples, there was a great ferment due to the contact between Spanish and local cultures, with a...continue...

Marco Scacchi & his time / Ensemble Vocale Veneto

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2008-11-11

Works: Marco Scacchi: Dove, ah dove, madrigal; Parlo, misero, o taccio, madrigal; Chi la mia luce estinse?, madrigal; Voi volete ch'io mora, madrigal; O come sei gentile, madrigal; Era l'anima mia, madrigal...

These are world premiere recordings of valuable music by an unknown composer who lived on the fringes of the musical world in Renaissance Poland....continue...

Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus RV 595 & RV 807 / Fanna, Zanetti, Galli, Zanasi, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2008-10-14

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Ascende laeta, RV 635; Dixit Dominus in D major, RV 595; Canta in Prato, ride in monte (II) solo motet for voice, 2 oboes, strings & continuo in G major, RV; Dixit Dominus, RV 807
Performers: Cecchetti, Mario; Galli, Emanuela; Honeyman, Ian [Tenor Vocal]; Zanasi, Furio; Zanetti, Monique
Conductors: Fanna, Francesco; Capuano, Gianluca
Ensemble: Ensemble Pian & Fort; Ensemble Pian & Forte; Pian e Forte Ensemble

Rarely performed, gorgeous choral music! A wonderful project by the greatest living Vivaldi scholar, Michael Talbot, with two Dixit Dominus settings introduced by relative Motets....continue...

Vivaldi: Mottetti sacri - Laudate pueri, Lauda Jerusalem, etc / Astronio, Bertagnolli, Rydén, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2008-09-09

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Lauda Jerusalem in E minor, RV 609; Laudate Pueri Dominum (Psalm 112), for 2 voices, 2 choruses, flute, 2 strings & continuo in A major,; Salve Regina, antiphon for voice, double cho...
Performers: Bertagnolli, Gemma; Rydén, Susanne
Conductors: Astronio, Claudio
Ensemble: Harmonices Mundi String Ensemble

Castiglioni: Inverno In-Ver, Quodlibet, etc/ Gelmetti, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2007-07-10

Works: Niccolò Castiglioni: Inverno In-ver, 11 musical poems for small orchestra; Quodlibet, for solo soprano; Quodlibet, small concerto for piano & chamber orchestra; Dickinson-Lieder, for soprano & p...
Performers: Hoffmann, Peter; Kabis, Regina; Kiuchi, Sakae; Nodinger, Annette
Conductors: Gelmetti, Gianluigi; Bernasconi, Giorgio
Ensemble: ; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

Niccolo Castiglioni (1932-1996) was an Italian composer and pianist who refused to be swept away by the currents all around him, yet whose music today...continue...

Echo - Palestrina: Motets for the Blessed Virgin / Taglioni

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2007-06-12

Works: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Ave Maria; Alma Redemptoris mater, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices); Veni sponsa Christi; Surge propera, in Visitatione Beatae Mariae Virginis, ...
Conductors: Taglioni, Luigi
Ensemble: Camerata Nova

Palestrina (1525-1594) is considered the greatest composer of sacred music in the 16th century. His personal faith as a Christian was expressed spontaneously in the...continue...

Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, etc / Testolin, De Labyrintho

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2007-05-08

Works: Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum... chromatico more singulari confectae, motet collection for 4 voices; Magnificat "Praeter rerum seriem"; Officium Natalis Christi, Mass proper for 5 voices, ...
Performers: Bava, Enrico; Benetti, Davide; Bonci, Luciano; Caristi, Nadia; Comeaux, Garrick; Fabris, Laura; Ferrarini, Gianluca; Furnari, Fabio; Grotto, Renato; Simbola, Anna

De Labyrintho is one of Italy's outstanding Early Music ensembles, and their recordings have been greeted with wide acclaim. Orlando di Lasso was one of...continue...

Echo - Monteverdi - A Voce Sola con Sinfonie / Rasi, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-09-12

Works: Giovanni Paolo Cima: Sonata à 4 (dai Concerti Ecclesiastici, Milano 1610); Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 10; Madrigals, Book 9; Scherzi musicali, volume 2; Lasciatemi morire "Lamento d'Ari...
Performers: Guglielmi, Luca; Invernizzi, Roberta; Pornon, Beatrice; Rasi, Alberto
Conductors: Rasi, Alberto
Ensemble: Accademia Strumentale Italiana; Italian Instrumental Academy

"Intersperses some of Monteverdi's best-known solo vocal pieces with contemporary works for viola da gamba consort and keyboard, expertly and lovingly played by Alberto Rasi...continue...

Echo - Carissimi: Cantata e Messa / Marco Longhini, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-05-09

Works: Giacomo Carissimi: Missa "Sciolto havean dall'alte sponde," mass for 5 voices & continuo; Suscitavit Dominus, motet for alto, tenor, bass & continuo; Exurge cor meum in cithara; Ardens est cor meum [...
Performers: Bertotti, Lavinia; Miatello, Cristina; Naglia, Sandro; Zanasi, Furio
Conductors: Longhini, Marco
Ensemble: Le Istituzioni Harmoniche, Verona

The current taste for Carissimi's secular cantatas has somewhat obscured his sacred music, and Maestro Longhini was struck by the very secular title of a...continue...

Riverberi nello spazio e nel tempo / Tagliaferri, Sciddurlo

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-01-10

Works: Samuel Scheidt: Tabulatura nova, Book 3; François Couperin: Mass for Organ no 1 "à l'usage ordinaire des paroisses"; Josquin Desprez: Tu solus qui facis mirabilia, motet for 4 parts; Lo...
Performers: Sciddurlo, M.; Tagliaferri, Pietro

This is a wide-ranging program of modern works for the unusual but natural combination of saxophone and organ, along with numerous delightful transcriptions of suitable...continue...

Willaert: Mottetti et Ricercari /Collarile, Hernández-Pastor

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2004-01-04

Works: Adrian Willaert: O magnum mysterium; Angelus Domini descendit; Ave regina caelorum; Inviolata, integra; O Domine Jesu Christe, adoro; Marco Antonio Cavazzoni: Recerchari, motetti, canzoni..., Book 1;...
Performers: Collarile, Luigi; Hernández Pastor, José
Conductors: Collarile, Luigi
Ensemble: Academia della Selva

Willaert, of Flemish origin, worked mainly in Italy in the second decade of the 16th century and is one of the most representative figures in...continue...

Fuoco e Ghiaccio Madrigale / New Vocal Soloists Stuttgart

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2003-02-04

Works: Salvatore Sciarrino: Canti (3) senza pietre; L'alibi della parola; Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 17; Madrigals, Book 6; Madrigals, Book 5; Madrigals, Book 4; Ivan Fedele: Animus Anima
Performers: Storz, Silke; Weller, Andreas
Conductors:
Ensemble: New Vocal Soloists Stuttgart