John writes: a new album from David Tayler & friends. David taught me everything I know about audio recording engineering, and has also been my renaissance lute teacher. The sound quality is stunning. da: http://www.magnatune.com Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file) [hifi lofi] 01-Trio Sonata in D minor-1 [...]
Tag:Bach, Magnatune, Telemann, Voices of Music
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gio, maggio 10 2012 » Musica classica » No Comments
Based on the creative vision of directors David Tayler and Hanneke van Proosdij, the Voices of Music ensemble takes the view that Renaissance and Baroque music should be centered around the very finest singing—a philosophy that really shines through on An Evening With Bach. Along with the transcendent, instantly recognizable instrumentals of the opener, “Air [...]
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gio, maggio 10 2012 » Musica classica » No Comments
These famous cello concertos are played here for cello solo and bass without orchestra, in a world premiere recording of these works with this instrumentation. Renowned cellist Vito Paternoster discovered a manuscript dating back to the early nineteenth century, where a cellist realizes for cello and bass a transcription of the famous concerto in C [...]
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ven, maggio 4 2012 » Musica classica » No Comments
As Bach emphasized in his own Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, the practice of cello solo combines different meanings: monody and polyphony, tonality and modality, the ancient and the modern. Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file) [hifi lofi] 01-Allemande Partita for violoncello solo in re min BWV1013 (JS [...]
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ven, maggio 4 2012 » Magnatune Compilations » No Comments
Vito Paternoster, a pioneer of Baroque music in Italy, picks five of the most beautiful Italian Baroque sonatas for cello. B Marcello, FP Scipriani (in world premiere recording), GB Pergolesi, F Geminiani and F Martino, ( edited by Ricordi inc.) performed with virtuosity and lyricism, bring us back to the sounds, voices and colors of [...]
Tag:Geminiani, Magnatune, Marcello, Martino, Paternoster, Pergolesi, Scipriani
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Could you ever think that these two instruments (cello and bassoon) could form a duo? And yet, three different composers (WA Mozart, F Danzi and FJ Haydn) believed just that: the first one composing a beautiful sonata for cello and bassoon, the second one transcribing some of the most beautiful Mozart’s melodies, and the third [...]
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Oh how we love the echoing, haunting beauty of Italian cellist Vito Paternoster’s Inzaffirio, a distillation of the preludes from Bach’s Cello Suites. Following each prelude is an arrangement for solo cello, voice, and string orchestra. Soprano Patrizia Pace’s voice is both pristine and incredibly powerful, and its straightforward purity nicely counterbalances the detail and [...]
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gio, maggio 3 2012 » Musica classica » No Comments
How exciting! Internationally acclaimed Vito Paternoster is the first cellist to record the complete Bach sonatas and partitas for Solo Cello (originally for the violin), and here demonstrates the full scope of his considerable powers. Part of Bach’s genius was being able to give harmonic self-sufficience and polyphony to solo instruments—a quality that suits Paternoster’s [...]
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gio, maggio 3 2012 » Musica classica » No Comments
Ah, no one does the bittersweet elegance of Bach like internatinoally acclaimed cellist Vito Paternoster. We love his stripped down, soulful approach to the six Bach cello suites; it really brings out their autumnal quality, and makes them everything they should be—full of both light and shadow, sorrow and joy. A wonderful, timeless recording [...]
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The famous cellist renowned for his performances of Baroque music crosses the modern world. Vito Paternoster between old and new. Paternoster sings, plays piano, cello, offering also a series of pieces where the melodies intend to open ourselves to the peace, humor and nostalgia. Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, [...]
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gio, maggio 3 2012 » Musica classica » No Comments