Nicolò Balducci, Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin, Anna Paradiso – Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Nicolò Balducci, Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin, Anna Paradiso – Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:14 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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During the 17th and 18th centuries, Naples’ fame as a musical centre attracted travellers, composers, instrumentalists and virtuoso singers alike. Among the aspiring musicians, the most highly-trained and sought-after were the castrati, promising boys aged between 8 and 12 who were subjected to an operation intended to preserve the exceptionally pure timbre of their treble voice. Forever virginal beings whose superhuman voices mesmerized their listeners they were nicknamed angiolilli, ‘little angels’, and sang in the most important churches and theatres of ‘Castrapolis’, a term coined to describe the southern capital and its high concentration of castrato sopranos.
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Anna Paradiso – Paradiso Plays Paradisi (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Anna Paradiso – Paradiso Plays Paradisi (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:57 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Bari, Italy, Anna Paradiso moved to Sweden in 2006 and is today one of the most prominent harpsichord players in her adoptive country, with concerts as soloist and continuo player at home, as well as in the rest of Europe, the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Lebanon. For “Paradiso plays Paradisi”, she is recorded 10 Sonatas from Pier Domenico Paradies. The very special thing about this recording is this: Anna played on 3 fantastic instruments: French harpsichord by Francois Paul Ciocca (Riccia 2008) after Nicolas & Francois Blanchet (1730); Original fortepiano Broadwood (London 1802); Original Swedish clavichord Pehr Lindholm (Stockholm 1794).

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