Donna Santissima - Ave Donna Santissima - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new features works for solo piano by female composers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, performed by Anna Shelest. Hailed by The New York Times as a pianist of Incha fiery sensibility and warm touch,Inch Anna Shelest is an international award-winning pianist who has thrilled audiences throughout the world. An Incheffective collaboratorInch (The New York Times), Anna made her orchestral debut at the age of twelve with the Kharkiv Symphony Orchestra, playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. Since then she has been a soloist with some of the world's finest orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and Estonian National Symphony, among others. Born in Ukraine, she received her early music education at Kharkiv Special Music School. Since graduating from The Juilliard School with a Masters Degree in the class of Jerome Lowenthal, Anna has made her home in New York City with her husband and two sons.

The cult and devotion to Mary have been among the greatest and most important sources of inspiration for all the arts in the history of humanity, and in the history of music they have given rise to a myriad of compositions that have spanned the centuries since the beginning of Christianity to the present day. Within this record the ensembles Vox Poetica and Nova Alta directed by the master Sabino Manzo offer to us some examples of the most significant Italian composers of the Renaissance and Baroque period, starting from the InchdivineInch Claudio Monteverdi, a milestone in the history of music, up to Alessandro Scarlatti, a leading exponent of that Neapolitan school that in the eighteenth century exploded in all it's shining vitality, passing through Girolamo Frescobaldi, Inchmonster organistInch whose fame as a composer and keyboardist went across the Italian borders.

Album Tracks 1. Cantata, BWV 147 Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude 2. Notenbuchlein Fur Anna Magdalena Bach Bist Du Bei Mir, BWV 508 3. Serse Ombra Mal Fargo 4. The Messiah Hallelujah Chorus 5. Rinaldo Lascia Ch'io Pianga 6. Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K. 339 Laudate Dominum 7. Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 8. Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165 9. Caro Mio Ben 10. Ave Maria, D. 839 11. Angus Dei 12. Ave Maria 13. Panis Angelicus 14. Requiem Pie Jesu 15. Ave Maria 16. Six Songs, Op. 48 Die Ehre Gottes Aus Der Natur