D!ssonanti - Bach - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

New light on Pergolesi! This album sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of the great Italian composer, offering two masterpieces in their first modern edition and first recording the Mass in D major and the mottettone Dignas Laudes. Both editions are the outcome of recent musicological research carried out by the Centro Studi Pergolesi in Milan, and show a facet of Pergolesi - his energetic and solemn character - that complements and amplifies the dramatic and introspective moods of his most renowned sacred works. This Arcana inaugurates a collaboration with the Ghislieri Choir & Consort and celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the ensemble, which specialises in eighteenth-century sacred repertory and has already recorded works by Galuppi, Jommelli, Perez (Il Mattutino de' Morti) and Handel (Handel in Rome 1707) for Sony-DHM. The soloists on this recording, conducted by Giulio Prandi, are the soprano Marlis Petersen, one of the leading sopranos on the international scene, and a quintet of young Italian singers who already perform in the most important and prestigious European venues. Album Tracks 1. Messa in Re Maggiore 2. Mottetto InchDignas Laudes ResonemusInch

Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensemble's founder Gidon Kremer directs op.131 from the violin, while Mario Brunello conducts op. 135 and adds two contemporary pieces, one by Leo Ferre, 'the revolutionary, anarchic, inspired singer-songwriter and great lover of Beethoven' Muss es sein? Es muss sein! 'We perform this hymn to 'free music' in a version arranged by Valter Sivilotti for cello, strings and percussion with Ferre's original voice... Note sconte means 'hidden notes' in Venetian dialect. Franco Rossi, the legendary cellist of the Quartetto italiano, always invited his students, including me, to look for and give importance to the note sconte in the scores of string quartets. I asked Giovanni Sollima to write a piece in memory of Franco Rossi, of his great passion for Beethoven and his note sconte,' comments Mario Brunello. 'These two works form a bridge between Beethoven and our times, giving the expression InchSearching for LudwigInch a concrete reality in sound,' concludes Gidon Kremer. Album Tracks 1. Muss Es Sein ? Es Muss Sein ! (Arranged for Cello, Strings and Percussion) 2. String Quartet No.16 in F Major Op.135 (Arranged for String Orchestra) 3. Note Sconte (First Version for String Orchestra) 4. String Quartet No.14 in C Sharp minor Op.131 (Arranged for String Orchestra)

Album Tracks 1. Allegro 2. Adagio 3. Allegro 4. Allegro 5. Largo 6. Presto 7. (Untitled) 8. Andante 9. Presto 10. (Untitled) 11. Allegro 12. Andante Un Poco 13. Presto