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Marcin Świątkiewicz, Arte dei Suonatori - Johann Gottfried Müthel: The 5 Keyboard Concertos (2015)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Marcin Świątkiewicz, Arte dei Suonatori - Johann Gottfried Müthel: The 5 Keyboard Concertos (2015)

Marcin Świątkiewicz, Arte dei Suonatori - Johann Gottfried Müthel: The 5 Keyboard Concertos (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 735 Mb | Total time: 127:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2179 CD | Recorded: 2013

Johann Forkel, the biographer of J.S. Bach, numbered Müthel among the most remarkable of Bach’s pupils. Another of the great chroniclers of 18th century music, Charles Burney, described Müthel's works as 'so full of novelty, taste, grace, and contrivance, that I should not hesitate to rank them among the greatest productions of the present age.’ In Müthel's five concertos for keyboard and strings we nevertheless meet a distinctly individual composer, displaying sophisticated rhythms and harmonic playfulness. Presenting them on this set of two CDs, the young Polish harpsichordist Marcin Świątkiewicz makes his début on BIS. He is supported by his compatriots in the acclaimed period band Arte dei Suonatori, who clearly relish the often intricate and always eventful orchestral parts.

Martyna Pastuszka, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna - Leonardo Vinci: Gismondo, Re di Polonia (2019)

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Martyna Pastuszka, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna - Leonardo Vinci: Gismondo, Re di Polonia (2019)

Martyna Pastuszka, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna - Leonardo Vinci: Gismondo, Re di Polonia (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 1.10 Gb | Total time: 217:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Parnassus Arts | 912010487001 | Recorded: 2018

Unlike today, neither George Frideric Handel nor Antonio Vivaldi was the most famous and most performed opera composer in the first third of the 18th century, but rather Leonardo Vinci (ca. 1696-1730). Educated in Naples, he was successful there from 1719, initially with several operas buffe before he turned to the more prestigious opera seria in 1722 with immediate success. As one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan School, he left his mark on the Italian and soon also the European opera scene. Even Handel in faraway London could not avoid his music: in order to satisfy the public's taste, he put several pasticcios with their arias on the repertoire of his failing opera company. In 1730 Vinci died suddenly after colicky pains, and it was soon rumored that he had been the victim of a poison attack.