Ensemble Sillages - Harmonie Des Spheres - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in the northern Italian coastaltown of Chioggia about 1555, organistand composer Paolo Quagliati played apart historically in having transplantedto Rome the Florentine recitative styleand developing it in the direction of aconcertato style of several voices withinstruments. Brought back to life after almost 400years, his La Sfera armoniosa (1623) iscomposed of 25 numbers with texts forthe most part by Battista Guarini. The music, composed entirely byQuagliati but for two villanellas byStefano Landi, reflects the staid Italianacademic and emerging modern stylesof the time. Album Tracks 1. Stelle Del Ciel Ridenti 2. Scrivasi in Bel Diamante 3. Ballo Delle Stelle Stelle Lucenti 4. La Nave Felice - Solca, Nocchiero 5. Ch'io Non V'ami 6. Altro Non E'l Mio Amore 7. E Ver Che Nel Partire 8. Ecco la Notte 9. Ardo D'amor S'io Miro 10. Ecco Filli Vezzosa 11. O Come Dolce 12. Vedi L'alba, O Bella Clori 13. Come Cantar Poss'io 14. O Primavera 15. Soavissimi Fiori 16. Non Si Scherzi 17. O Bellezza Gentile 18. Toccata Con Un Violino E la Tiorba 19. Felice Chi VI Mira 20. Io Vo Cantar 21. Questo E L'esempio, Amanti 22. Or Che Lieto Imeneo

A live recording of van Wassenaer's Concerti Armonici by the well established Dutch ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa. These are beautiful Concerti in the Italian style (until the 80s the work was actually attributed to Pergolesi). This is the third instalment in La Sfera Armoniosa survey of most important Baroque orchestral works from the Netherlands. Previous releases were devoted to de Fesch (CC 72829 - There is much to enjoy in this excellent disc (Scherzo - SP) and to Hellendaal (CC 72911)

For this portrait album, which inaugurates their collaboration with Cypres, the Fractales ensemble has chosen to bring together four key pieces from their repertoire, four quintets in which the alchemy between the ensemble's sound and the work of the composers is revealed, the fruit of numerous exchanges between musicians and creators. Saturated textures, erased melodies, extra-western inspirations and games of temporality are among other things on the program of this adventure. Fractales symbolically evokes the vision that the ensemble has of today's musical composition a scene that is infinitely fragmented, irregular and plural, but in which each creation illustrates a common and shared search for the individualization of musical languages. Their artistic work aims to highlight this diversity, while bringing together these writings in a spirit of sound exploration. Album Tracks 1. Érotique-Lancinante, Pour Violon, Violoncelle, Flûte Traversière, Clarinette Et Clarinette Basse (2018) 2. Arioso a Cinque, Pour Violon, Violoncelle, Flûte Traversière, Clarinette Et Clarinette Basse, Piano (2018, Rev. 2019) 3. Of Other Spaces, Pour Violon, Violoncelle, Piccolo, Clarinette Basse Et Piano Spatialisés (2017) 4. To Become a Tree, Pour Violon, Violoncelle, Flûte Basse Et Flûte Traversière, Clarinette Basse Et Piano (2016)