NewCoMer oF the Year - Allegro Music

la Bottega discantica
Alessandro sCARLAttI
venere, Amore e ragione
Cat # BDI 209
Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)
Number of Discs: 1
Digipak, Box Lot 25
D U.s. ORDeRs OnLY
Victor De sAbAtA
il Mercante di venezia
Cat # BDI 228
Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)
Number of Discs: 1
Digipak, Box Lot 25
WORLD pReMIeRe
D U.s. ORDeRs OnLY
28
release date: July 10, 2012
Gabriella Costa, Veronica Lima: sopranos
Elena Biscuola: mezzo-soprano
Les Eléments Baroque Orchestra
Piero Cartosio: director
A. SCARLATTI: Venere, Amore e Ragione • Sinfonia from Concerto Grosso
No. 10
Alessandro Scarlatti was undoubtedly the greatest composer of vocal music
in Italy in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. However, despite his grandeur being
recognized by historians, it’s only recently that his music can be heard
and appreciated in concerts. The “serenata” could be considered the form
that lies between opera and cantata, a kind of mini-opera with the usual
alternation between arias and recitatives but without the effects of staging. A
characteristic of the beautiful and rare serenata recorded here is the presence
of a general dancing nature of many of the arias along with real instrumental
dances that, towards the end, intertwine with the arias.
Málaga Chorus
Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Aldo Ceccato: conductor
DE SABATA: Il Mercante di Venezia [The Merchant of Venice] (complete
incidental music to Shakespeare’s play)
The complete incidental music for William Shakespeare’s The Merchant
of Venice, recorded for the first time! Aldo Ceccato conducts the Orquesta
Filarmónica de Málaga in a brilliant score by legendary Italian conductor
Victor De Sabata. Ceccato is a conductor of international fame. He studied
music at the “G. Verdi” Conservatoire in Milan, his birthplace, and later
attended specialization courses held by Sergiu Celibidache. He has conducted
many great symphonic and operatic masterpieces in the most important
Theatres—from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Naples’ San Carlo Theatre, and
Florence’s Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to London’s Covent Garden, the Paris
Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, and the Hamburg Staastoper. He has been
invited as guest conductor at the principal international music festivals in
Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Berlin, and Prague.