Ian Page

The Mozartists & Ian Page – Jommelli: Il Vologeso (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 11, 2023 · Comments off

The Mozartists continue their project of staging operas by Mozart and his contemporaries with their recording of the UK premi’ere of Niccol`o Jommelli’s Il Vologeso, first performed over 250 years ago on 11 February 1766 for the Stuttgart court in Ludwigsburg.

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The Mozartists & Ian Page – Sturm und Drang, Vol. 1: Beck, Gluck, Haydn, Jommelli, Traetta (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 10, 2023 · Comments off

This is the first project in a seven-volume series exploring the Sturm und Drang movement, which swept through all art forms in the between the early 1760s and 1780s. The purpose of this movement was to frighten and perturb through the use of wild and subjective emotional means of expression.

This series of Sturm und Drang recordings incorporates iconic compositions by Mozart, Gluck and, above all, Joseph Haydn, but it also includes largely forgotten or neglected works by less familiar names. The music featured on this disc was all composed in the 1760s. It includes ballet and opera as well as symphonies, but is drawn together by the hallmarks of the remarkably visceral and dynamic style of music that we now call Sturm und Drang.

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The Mozartists & Ian Page – Arne: Artaxerxes (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 10, 2023 · Comments off

The discovery of Artaxerxes by Thomas Arne was a nice surprise for Joseph Haydn, who was unaware that such operas existed in England. Performed practically without interruption in London from 1762 to 1830, it was probably also seen by the young Mozart. At any rate, this is a likelihood suggested by the conductor Ian Page, a great connoisseur of British musical life in the eighteenth century, who has released this album with his ensemble The Mozartists.

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The Mozartists & Ian Page – Sturm und Drang, Vol. 3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 5, 2023 · Comments off

Like the first two releases in The Mozartists’ ongoing ‘Sturm und Drang’ series, this record- ing comprises three highly dramatic and turbulent orchestral works interspersed with similarly highly-charged vocal items. The repertoire dates from between 1771 and 1788, and again includes one of Haydn’s great minor-key symphonies – this time arguably the greatest of them all, the ‘Trauer’. For the first time in the series Mozart is also represented, in the form of his extraordinarily visceral and darkly chromatic Adagio and Fugue in C minor, and the disc opens with an outstanding G minor symphony by the Czech com- poser Leopold Kozeluch, whose quality, sweep and lyricism will surprise many listeners. The two vocal works are genuine rarities. Schweitzer’s Alceste was one of the earliest attempts to create German tragic opera in the vernacular, and it launches with an aria of searing intensity. The scene from Paisiello’s Annibale in Torino – the twenty-third of his eighty-seven operas –features an exquisite but brief arioso before leading into a stormy G minor aria. The soloist is the exciting young American soprano Emily Pogorelc, and Ian Page again conducts his award-winning period-instrument ensemble.

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Ian Page – Ian Page (1973/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 18, 2023 · Comments off

Teaming up with guitarist David Cairns while at school, Ian Page formed power pop/punk band New Hearts and signed to CBS Records in 1977, releasing two singles and touring with the Jam before the demise of the New Hearts in 1978.

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Classical Opera, Ian Page – Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K38 (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 6, 2023 · Comments off

Classical Opera has mounted two staged productions of Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus (1998 and 2006), with both receiving wide critical acclaim, The Independent stating: ‘Classical Opera’s polished debut in Apollo et Hyacinthus proved a pearl beyond price. Here was a work of staggering beauty riddled with sweet noises like Caliban’s enchanted isle.’

This recording has been eagerly awaited since its 2007 debut CD, ‘The A-Z of Mozart Opera’ was released, described by David Vickers in Gramophone as ‘glorious … fresh, diverse, insightful and illuminating’. The company features a mix of seasoned and young performers including Sophie Bevan and Lawrence Zazzo in the title roles.

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The Mozartists & Ian Page – Mozart in London (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 13, 2023 · Comments off

programme which includes Mozart’s remarkable first symphony (composed when he was eight years old), along with his two other London symphonies and his first concert aria. The repertoire also explores the music that was being performed in London during Mozart’s stay, including works by J. C. Bach, Thomas Arne, Abel, Pescetti, Perez, George Rush and William Bates, many of which have not previously been recorded, and the large cast of soloists includes eight singers and harpsichordist Steven Devine.

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