Soledad de la Rosa, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo – Marazzoli: Occhi belli, occhi neri (Cantate romane) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:22 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of the most productive and versatile of Italian composers, Marco Marazzoli is remembered today principally for his part in the development of Roman opera. Or maybe not even that, seeing that his output is represented in current record catalogues by only a few scattered entries, amongst which the recording of La Fiera di Farfa by Vincent Dumestre (Alpha 172) is the most significant. And yet Marazzoli, who lived in the shadow of three great popes, is one of the most significant Roman composers of the mid-seventeenth century.
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Ensemble Mare Nostrum & Andrea De Carlo – Stradella: Amare e fingere (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:59:27 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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The discovery of the inventory of an extraordinary collection of music from the late seventeenth century has made it possible to track down a previously unknown work by Stradella, Amare e fingere, performed in Siena in 1676. Love, jealousy, dissimulation, false identities, intrigue, festive celebrations and duels form the ingredients of this opera, whose libretto, probably attributable to Giovanni Filippo Apolloni, is inspired by a Spanish comedy of the time.
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Ensemble Mare Nostrum & Andrea De Carlo – Stradella Santa Pelagia (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:22 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
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With this fourth installment of the Stradella Project, Andrea De Carlo and Ensemble Mare Nostrum continue their exploration of the oratorio output, following the recent rediscoveries of San Giovanni Crisostomo and Santa Editta. A pretty dancing-girl at the imperial court of Antioch in Syria, Pelagia, is the object of rivalry between an evil angel, Mondo (the World), urging her to enjoy life to the full before old age destroys her beauty, and Bishop Nonno of Edessa, who with the help of a good angel, Religione, invites her to a life in the service of God. Pelagia succumbs to the flattery offered by Mondo, but just as the latter is celebrating his victory, she retires unexpectedly to a lonely cave in the wilderness where she can dedicate the rest of her life to the loving service of God. Stradella cannot resist revealing his point of view about this sudden change, giving the oratorio a surprise ending. Soprano Roberta Mameli offers us a complex and seductive portrayal of the title role, surrounded by a distinguished cast including Sergio Foresti as Mondo, Raffaele Pe as Religione and Luca Cervoni as Nonno. As in previous installments, the recording was made within the framework of the Alessandro Stradella International Festival in Nepi, the composer’s birthplace.
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Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo – Stradella: Santa Editta (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:36 minutes | 1002 MB | Genre: Classical
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Our beautiful recording for Arcana of Alessandro Stradella’s oratorio ‘Santa Editta“. With this third installment of the Stradella Project, Andrea De Carlo and Ensemble Mare Nostrum continue the exploration of the oratorio output, following the recent rediscovery of San Giovanni Crisostomo.
An historical figure from the 10th century, Edith of Wilton was an English nun of noble birth, and legend has it that she refused the opportunity of taking the throne, causing the aversion of a faction of nobles.
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