Antonio Flinta Jazz Trio - Tree & Figure - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Matt Flinner Trio - Music Du Jour [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/21/2009

Ensemble Raro join forces with Andrej Bielow to record three jewels of the Romantic chamber repertoire. An unaffected sincerity of the five performers takes it's roots from the profound respect they have for each other's musical identity. Complete identification with the musical material coupled with truly Romantic imagination makes for a very fine listening experience.

In the circles of early music lovers, documented information about performance practice is so important as to be obsessively searched for by musicians and musicologists. While iconography sometimes cannot be relied on as evidence because of it's symbolic meaning, a piece of information on the aesthetics of a performance, the making of an instrument, the composition of a group of instruments, or the repertoire performed is all the more valuable if it comes from a document, be it official or private, such as a letter. Considering that Isabella d'Este was a passionate lover of music and also a musician herself, it is easy to understand that the massive corpus of letters written and received by her can be an extraordinary mine of this type of information. Here the Anonima Frottolisti ensemble (TC490001, TC250001, TC400007) continues it's research in a deep introspection into the meanders of the music of Humanism, focusing on a repertoire drawn from the letters of the Marquise of Mantua Isabella d'Este, whose strong cultural and artistic sensibility deeply marked her time.