Francesco Divito - In Turbato Mare Irato: Virtuoso Arias of Second - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Günter Wand - Wand-Edition Carmina Burana [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/19/2005

This recording production rebuilds the complex events of a composition by Gennaro D'Alessandro (Neapolitan musician, pupil of Leonardo Leo) believed to be hopelessly lost after the bombing in Dresden during the Second World War the InchOttoneInch, opera on the libretto by Antonio Salvi accommodated by Carlo Goldoni. The opera was performed for the first time at the Grimani of S. Giovanni Grisostomo Theatre in Venice in the carnival season from December 26, 1739 to January 31, 1740 in the presence of Frederick Christian Leopold. In 2019 the musicologist Giovanni Tribuzio could finally reconstruct the Ottone thanks to several sources and witnesses. A score from the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria in Modena, partially hands down the work by Gennaro D'Alessandro (including the recitatives and ten arias). This new version was, in fact, represented with great success as InchAdelaide/Adelaide, Queen of ItalyInch in 1744 in Prague, Leipzig and Hamburg. To this highly significant finding we have to add the discovery of a precious nucleus of arias, from the private library of composer Everett Burton Helm (now at the Lilly Library in Bloomington and the National Library of Australia in Canberra).

Houses of the Wind is a haunting, five-movement electro-acoustic piece that critically acclaimed composer Adams created from his field recording of an aeolian harp (wind harp) played by the Arctic winds 30 years ago. Over the years since he made this field recording, both the concept and the sound of the aeolian harp have inspired many of his celebrated instrumental works-including his six string quartets. In 2021 he went back to his original aeolian harp recording and sculpted each movement (or variation) of InchHouses of the WindInch from the sounds on that tape, using voice layering, time stretching, and pitch manipulation as his primary compositional tools. John Luther Adams' music has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Award and has been performed by such prominent ensembles as the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the JACK Quartet. Cold Blue Music has released nine recordings of his work, including InchArctic Dreams,Inch InchLines Made by Walking,Inch InchEverything That Rises,Inch and InchThe Wind in High Places.Inch His memoir, InchSilences So Deep,Inch was published in 2020.