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Robin Johannsen, Carlo Vistoli, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi – Mozart in Milan: Sacred Music around the Exsultate, jubilate (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:48 minutes | 2,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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The splendour of Mozart’s motet Exsultate, jubilate stands out in a repertoire that has for too long remained in the shadows: the magnificent output of church music composed in 18th century.
Milan, the city in which Mozart, then not even 17 years old, wrote his first masterpiece of sacred music precisely 250 years ago. The virtuosity and melodic beauty of that score, conceived for the celebrated castrato Venanzio Rauzzini, can finally be heard alongside the brilliant works – for soloists and choir, in bo.
th the stile antico and the new modern manner – composed for the exacting noble patrons of the capital of Austrian Lombardy by musicians of great refinement and talent: names that include the universally renowned Johann Christian Bach, Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, the then maestro di cappella of the cathedral, and the hitherto obscure Melchiorre Chiesa.
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Paolo Zanzu, Carlo Vistoli, Le Stagioni – Officina Romana: A Wonder Lab at the Dawn of the 18th Century (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of his solo recordings, Paolo Zanzu returns at the head of his ensemble Le Stagioni with ‘Officina Romana’, featuring the countertenor Carlo Vistoli. In the early eighteenth century, Rome was one of the great music capitals of Europe. In the space of a few years, Corelli, Handel, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Caldara, Cesarini and many others crossed paths there, surrounded by painters, sculptors, poets and philosophers who were among the great names of the age. The fruit of long reflection and research, ‘Officina Romana’ crystallises this unique moment in the history of music by recreating an idealised musical evening, a conversazione, a sort of liberal meeting of lofty minds in the palace of a Roman cardinal, with a programme mingling vocal and instrumental music in both orchestral and chamber formation. This programme highlights the creative genius, the estro of the time, its musical and technical inventiveness, combining famous pieces with previously unrecorded ones. The Cristofori fortepiano also makes an appearance here: Cardinal Ottoboni owned one.
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Carlo Vistoli – Cavalli: Xerse (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:31 minutes | 3,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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Francesco Cavalli succeeded Monteverdi as the most influential composer of the new genre of opera that emerged in mid-17th-century Venice. Il Xerse is a fictitious dramma per musica that tells of Persian King Xerxes’ love for Romilda, who in turn is in love with his brother Arsamene. The plot is an entertaining and extremely intricate human comedy of crossed loves, court intrigues and disguises – the work’s popularity saw it staged in Paris at the wedding of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain. Since overshadowed by Handel’s later Xerxes, this Martina Franca production is the first in modern times.
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Carlo Vistoli, Talenti Vulcanici, Stefano Demicheli – Arias for Nicolino (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:26 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Nicolò Francesco Leonardo Grimaldi, known as the “Cavalier Nicolino” or just “Nicolino” (1673-1732), was a famous Italian castrato, whose lifelong association with Haendel is widely documented: it was he who sung for the 1711 premiere of the Caro Sassone’s Rinaldo in London, followed by the same composer’s Amadigi du Gaula a few years later. The very same Nicolino premiered all the other works on this album, here sung by the Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli, a tribute to Nicolino’s fame throughout his life, including in the later years when he crossed paths with Pergolesi for La Salustia – probably not singing the first roles, as he was no longer a young man, but his outstanding stage presence seems to have designated him for important secondary character roles. Alas, poor Nicolino… the unfortunate castrato passed away at the untimely age of 59 during the rehearsals, so that Pergolesi had to find a last-minute replacement singer, for whom the arias were duly reshaped. In any case, all these arias, destined in one way or another for Nicolò Grimaldi, bear the mark of the extraordinary virtuosity which must have been his, and which is now that of Carlo Vistoli, presented as “the Rising star of baroque opera”.
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Carlo Vistoli; Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri; Giulio Prandi; Sandrine Piau; Salvo Vitale; Raffaele Giordani – Jommelli: Requiem (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:15 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the great success of their first disc for Arcana featuring two unpublished masterpieces by Pergolesi, which won the ‘Diapason Découverte’ award, Giulio Prandi and the Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri return with a new recording, devoted to Niccolò Jommelli’s Requiem. Composed in 1756 for the solemn obsequies of the Duke of Württemberg’s mother, it became the most popular Requiem setting in Europe until Mozart’s, written in 1791.
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Carlo Vistoli – Amor tiranno. Broken-hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:45 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of ‘Arias for Nicolino’, a musical portrait of the celebrated castrato of Handel’s era (A427), Carlo Vistoli turns his attention to Venetian opera of the seventeenth century. The Italian countertenor – ‘a voice […] intrinsically beautiful, strong and powerful’ (Opera Magazine) – has been delving into this repertory since the beginning of his international career with specialists such as Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner. In this anthology accompanied by the ensemble Sezione Aurea, the focus is on operatic scenes and chamber music by the leading composers of the time, such as Francesco Cavalli and Claudio Monteverdi, whose famous aria ‘Sì dolce è ‘l tormento’ exemplifies the linking thread of the arias in this recording: disappointed lovers. They express their disillusion not only through lamenti, but also in a lighter, more humorous fashion that can include dance forms, as in the chaconne ‘Amanti, io vi so dire’ by Benedetto Ferrari, a lesser-known but historically important composer who, like Filiberto Laurenzi and Francesco Sacrati, contributed to the development of the dramma per musica as a genre.
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