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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria; Livietta e Tracollo (2011)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria; Livietta e Tracollo (2011)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria; Livietta e Tracollo (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 190 min | 6,30+5,97 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano | Recorded: 2010

For the festivities marking the Pergolesi’s tercentenary in his native Jesi, Ignacio García created a new staging of the imperial drama Adriano in Siria. His staging in Jesi’s exquisite 18th-century Teatro Comunale Pergolesi includes the delightful comic intermezzo Livietta e Tracollo, thus following the precedent set at the premiere in 1734. A fine Italian cast and the distinguished Accademia Bizantina are led by the Accademia’s director, Ottavio Dantone.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (2009)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (2009)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 367 Mb | Total time: 77:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 4781465 | Recorded: 2008

“For intimacy and brio, there’s Ottavio Dantone and the five musicians of Accademia Bizantina… Poised in the Siciliano of the E major concerto, merry in the Allegro of the A major, strikingly confident in the whirlwind Presto of the F minor and dazzling in the Italianate Adagio of the D minor, the ensemble is faultless” The Independent on Bach Harpsichord Concertos. This is the second disc in the new L’Oiseau Lyre partnership with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone; it promises to be a stunning contribution to commemorate the Handel celebrations in 2009.

Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - La Casa del Diavolo: Gluck, CPE & WF Bach, Locatelli, Boccherini (2005)

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Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - La Casa del Diavolo: Gluck, CPE & WF Bach, Locatelli, Boccherini (2005)

Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - La Casa del Diavolo: Gluck, CPE & WF Bach, Locatelli, Boccherini (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 69:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30399 | Recorded: 2004

Listening to this disc will certainly blow the cobwebs away. On second thoughts, the experience could more accurately be described as blasting the cobwebs away. Superbly performed interpretations breathe life and a sense of adventure into this music that ranges from late Baroque to the Classical period.

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone & Alessandro Tampieri - Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone & Alessandro Tampieri - Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone & Alessandro Tampieri - Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 287 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:39
Classical | Label: HDB Sonus

First of all, we can see that the form of the “Concerto Grosso” is almost absent in this collection, with a succession of movements more often reminiscent of the Dance Suite, the Overture or even the Concerto for several instruments. The featured soloists range from Violins, Cellos, Oboes, Bassoons, Flutes and even the Organ. But what most disconcerts and bewilders the scholar is the compositional technique.

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (2022)

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (2022)

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 709 MB | Cover | 02:11:40 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 331 MB
Classical | Label: Hdb Sonus

Célèbre par son air « Ombra mai fù », dit « Largo d’Haendel », Serse (ou Xerxès) est un des opéras les plus originaux et les plus variés du compositeur allemand. C’est une de ses rares œuvres « comiques » qui contient de nombreuses facéties, de l’humour, mais qui est aussi teinté d’une certaine gravité.

The Vivaldi Edition Operas [27CDs] (2008)

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The Vivaldi Edition Operas [27CDs] (2008)

The Vivaldi Edition Operas: L'Orlando finto pazzo; Juditha triumphans; Tito Manlio; La verità in cimento; Orlando furioso; L'Atenaide; Il Farnace; L'Olimpiade; Griselda [27CDs] (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 8,79 Gb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30470 | Recorded: 2000-2007

Since 2001, beginning with Juditha Triumphans, eight operas by Vivaldi have been released in the Vivaldi Edition, each one an event, either the first complete recording (or the first recording!) by first-rate conductors, soloists and orchestras specializing in Baroque. Acclaimed by the press (numerous awards), and by the public (more than 150,000 copies sold since 2001), these recordings have succeeded at last in rehabilitating Antonio Vivaldi, known always for his brilliant concertos, as one of the greatest operatic composers of all time.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl, Helene Guilmette - Handel: Il duello amoroso (2007)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl, Helene Guilmette - Handel: Il duello amoroso (2007)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl, Hélène Guilmette - Handel: Il duello amoroso (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 72:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901957 | Recorded: 2005

Harmonia Mundi's release features four secular cantatas and a trio sonata Handel wrote during his sojourn in Italy during his early twenties. The cantatas range from the mini-opera Il duello amoroso or Amarilli vezzosa, which depicts a shepherd's vain courting of a resisting nymph, to solo works in which a narrator describes similar pastoral stories, most of which also end in rejection. In Il duello amoroso, soprano Hélène Guilmette joins countertenor Andreas Scholl, and their charming banter leaves the listener saddened that the shepherd's suit was so dismally unsuccessful.

Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Mozart, Giuliano Carmignola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008)

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Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Mozart, Giuliano Carmignola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008)

Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Mozart, Giuliano Carmignola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 493 Mb | Total time: 47:26+44:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 00289 477 8908 | Recorded: 2007

Claudio Abbado isn't a name one associates with early music, in light of his impressive career conducting the masterworks of the Romantic and modern eras. Indeed, he didn't conduct any music by J.S. Bach with the Berlin Philharmonic until as late as 1994. Yet when he's leading the talented Orchestra Mozart of Bologna in Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, his ease with the music and his players is obvious, and the performances have almost as much Baroque style as many versions by period ensembles of greater longevity. Abbado led this ensemble in all six Brandenburgs in 2007 at the Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilio, and the live performances were recorded by Deutsche Grammophon with close attention to details, as befits chamber music.

Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arcadia: Scarlatti, Marcello, Gasparini, Pasquini (2003)

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Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arcadia: Scarlatti, Marcello, Gasparini, Pasquini (2003)

Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arcadia: Scarlatti, Marcello, Gasparini, Pasquini (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 363 Mb | Total time: 78:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 470 296-02 | Recorded: 2003

Countertenor Andreas Scholl's new CD is devoted to little-known, late-17th- and early-18th-century cantatas whose subject matter is Arcadia, a real region in Greece, but more frequently evoked as an idyllic place filled with innocent, simple shepherds and shepherdesses. Scholl employs a more operatic tone and attitude than we're accustomed to from countertenors. Not only does he use vibrato and "lean" on the voice, but he dips down, as in the final moments of a cantata by Marcello, into a deep, dark baritone range. The effect is dramatic and apt. Elsewhere his tone is just gorgeous and always expressive, he pays attention to the text of these works and captures the theatrical moment in each. The last movement of a work by Francesco Gasparini is excitingly acrobatic.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario (2014)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario (2014)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 769 Mb | Total time: 64:34+68:57+43:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30553 | Recorded: 2013

'L’incoronazione di Dario' must be considered one of Vivaldi’s most successful operas. Immediately opening with exceptional arias, it moves at a rapid pace, holding the listener’s attention throughout. Recitatives are interspersed with arioso interludes and there no less than eight 'big' numbers sure to join the ranks of 'Vivaldi’s best opera arias'. The excellent cast acts out this drama with conviction: Anders Dahlin’s sings Dario, with impeccable intonation and stunning coloratura passages; Sara Mingardo, as Statira, brings great depth and beauty, most especially in her Act 2 solo Cantata accompanied only by viola da gamba.

Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos (2013)

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Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos (2013)

Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 60:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx | # ONYX 4114 | Recorded: 2012

Viktoria Mullova renews her partnership with long-term collaborator Ottavio Dantone in a programme of concertos for violin, offering not only the two famous concertos, but two concertos arranged for violin from the 2nd harpsichord concerto, and a concerto for violin and harpsichord which listeners may recognise from its violin and oboe guise – even this was arranged by Bach himself from the original for two harpsichords. Bach himself was a great re-user of material, and many concerto movements (including some from lost concertos) appeared in his cantatas. Mullova and Dantone have worked together for many years, both recording and in concert.

Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas (2007)

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Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas (2007)

Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 633 Mb | Total time: 113:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx | # 4020 | Recorded: 2007

Viktoria Mullova and Ottavio Dantone turn in smashing performances of Bach's six sonatas for violin and harpsichord, plus two additional items: a transcription of Trio Sonata No. 5 (for organ/clavichord) and the Sonata in G for Violin and Continuo BWV 1021. Bach's violin sonatas use the "church sonata" form; that is, they usually have opening slow movements and no quick movements modeled on dance forms. They are also unique in that they are in fact true duets between the right hand of the keyboard player and the violin, rather than solo works in which the violin sings while the harpsichord accompanies with the continuo part.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Concerti per archi III e Concerti per viola d'amore (2018)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Concerti per archi III e Concerti per viola d'amore (2018)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Concerti per archi III e Concerti per viola d'amore (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 619 Mb | Total time: 66:21+47:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 30570 | Recorded: 2017

A Gramophone editor's Choice, this double album brings together the third volume of Concerti per archi (strings) and the complete Concerti for viola d'amore by the Venetian genius. The Accademia Bizantina and its iconic chief Ottavio Dantone bring to this release a talent so great it is matched only by their dedication. The Vivaldi Edition is an ambitious project begun at the beginning of the century to record some 450 works by Vivaldi, many of them unknown, found in the National University Library of Turin. With the collaboration of today’s leading interpreters of Baroque music we are making available to the public hundreds of works, many in the composer’s own hand and covering every musical genre.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) (2020)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) (2020)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 752 Mb | Total time: 57:45+49:31+48:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 7080 | Recorded: 2020

Thanks to this tenth recording by Accademia Bizantina in the central core of the Vivaldi Edition, Il Tamerlano can now take its justly earned place in the Vivaldi catalogue, helping to renew the name and reputation of Timur, the Tartar emperor whose memory was later overshadowed by the Ottoman sultan. Vivaldi's opera was first performed during the Venice Carnival of 1735, and resurrected in 2005 under the title Bajazet. Here, under the musical direction of Ottavio Dantone, we have a sextet of dramatically engaged virtuoso soloists, and an orchestra that is perfectly aware of Vivaldi's musical dialectic. All the soloists are superbly well equipped to deal with the Red Priest's acrobatic and inventive writing here seen in the context of several of his contemporaries.

Ottavio Dantone, Accentus, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris - Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle (2014)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accentus, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris - Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle (2014)

Ottavio Dantone, Accentus, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris - Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 334 Mb | Total time: 60:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | V 5409 | Recorded: 2014

This live recording brings a new and fresh light on Rossini's most famous works after Il Barbiere di Siviglia. The concert took place in Paris - Basilique de Saint-Denis, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the work, first performed in March 1864, in Paris. The amazing quality of the solo voices (Julia Lezhneva, Delphine Galou, Michael Spyres, Alexander Vinogradov) meets the dynamic and delicate direction of Ottavio Dantone and is supported by the unique atmosphere of accentus chamber choir.