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Avanti L'Opera - an A-Z of Italin baroque overtures

Charivari Agréable / Kah-Ming Ng

Avanti L'Opera - an A-Z of Italin baroque overtures

Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212038321
Catnr: SIGCD 383
Release date: 24 October 2014
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212038321
Catalogue number
SIGCD 383
Release date
24 October 2014
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About the album

Charivari Agréable perform a collection of overtures from the Italian Baroque Opera, best described by director Kah-Ming Ng as “lucidly crafted for the purpose of turning heads”. In a decadent era when the theatregoers’ antics were often as intriguing as the on-stage performances, these works were composed to thrill, beguile and engage a distracted audience. Charivari Agréable represent ‘a new and very exciting phase of the early music revival, one that enriches the existing repertory and can bring us ever closer to the spirit of the original music.’ (Gramophone)
Boeiende collectie van Italiaanse barok opera ouvertures
De Pioniers van vroegere muziek van het ensemble Charivari Agréable voeren hier een boeiende collectie van ouvertures uit van de Italiaanse barok opera. Ouvertures die gemaakt werden met als doel om mensen het hoofd op hol te brengen.

In het decadente baroktijdperk kon het gedrag van theaterbezoekers vaak net zo intrigerend zijn als de uitvoeringen op het podium. De werken op dit album zijn dan ook gecomponeerd met de uitdrukkelijke bedoeling om het in die tijd vaak moeilijke publiek te vermaken, te engageren en in de maling te nemen. Het zijn werken van onder anderen Scarlatti, Bononcini en Pollarolo.

Charivari Agréable (vertaald als ‘plezierige tumult’) wordt geprezen voor zijn creatieve omgang met muziek uit het verleden en grote kennis van de sociale en historische context van die muziek. Het ensemble is gespecialiseerd in het gebruik van historische instrumenten, vanaf de Renaissance tot aan de vroeg klassieke periode. Onder leiding van Kah-Ming Ng geeft Charivari Agréable fantastische uitvoeringen op dit album en doet de barok op zijn eigen manier herleven.

Artist(s)

Composer(s)

Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian composer from the Baroque period. He mainly acquired fame through his oratorios, cantatas and (Neapolitan) operas. He was the father of Domenico, who followed his father's example and became a composer himself. In total, Scarlatti composed 38 oratorios, along with many masses and operas. His music has a spontaneous and unpredictable character, and at times a bit incoherent. Scarlatti had a great influence on the music of Georg Frideric Handel. Around 1708, the two composers met almost daily. 
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Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian composer from the Baroque period. He mainly acquired fame through his oratorios, cantatas and (Neapolitan) operas. He was the father of Domenico, who followed his father's example and became a composer himself.

In total, Scarlatti composed 38 oratorios, along with many masses and operas. His music has a spontaneous and unpredictable character, and at times a bit incoherent. Scarlatti had a great influence on the music of Georg Frideric Handel. Around 1708, the two composers met almost daily.


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Tomaso Albinoni

Albinoni studied violin and voice, but in the art of composing he was completely self-taught. He was born to a rich family, and he didn't have to work for the church (unlike his contemporaries such as Vivaldi, Zani and Geminiani), which gave him a lot of time and finances to work on his compositions from an early age. His first opera Zenobia, regina de Palmireni was performed in Venice for the first time in 1694.  Even though he quickly grew to fame as a composer, little is known of Albinoni's life. He married in 1705, and the Kapellmeister of the St Mark's Basilica, his friend Antonio Biffi, was his best man at the wedding. Otherwise it seems he had little contact with...
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Albinoni studied violin and voice, but in the art of composing he was completely self-taught. He was born to a rich family, and he didn't have to work for the church (unlike his contemporaries such as Vivaldi, Zani and Geminiani), which gave him a lot of time and finances to work on his compositions from an early age. His first opera Zenobia, regina de Palmireni was performed in Venice for the first time in 1694. Even though he quickly grew to fame as a composer, little is known of Albinoni's life. He married in 1705, and the Kapellmeister of the St Mark's Basilica, his friend Antonio Biffi, was his best man at the wedding. Otherwise it seems he had little contact with the musical establishment of Venice, even though his operas were quite popular in the Italian cities. In 1722, Maximilian II of Bavaria invitied him to perform two of his operas in Munich. Around 1740, a collection of violin sonatas by Albinoni was published posthumously by a French editor. For a long time, people thought he had already died by then, but in reality he was living a secluded life in Venice, where he died at the age of 80 from diabetes.


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