Filippo Maria Bressan, Academia de li Musici - Benedetto Marcello: Arianna (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 855 Mb | Total time: 61:42+67:13+55:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0656(3) | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 855 Mb | Total time: 61:42+67:13+55:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0656(3) | Recorded: 1999
Any recording of an opera by Benedetto Marcello will, for many, bring to mind his literary satire, IL TEATRO ALLA MODA, subtitled "a safe and easy method of properly composing and producing Italian operas according to modern practice." Within its pages, no one involved in the creation of opera-librettist, composer, singers, impresario-is spared. In one passage, the composer is admonished to "oblige the impresario to provide a great number of violins, oboes, horns, etc., preferring to let him economize on double basses, for these should not be used except in the preliminary tuning."