Graupner / Capricornus Consort Basel - Duo Cantatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1986 album from the legendary British quartet. The Queen Is Dead is The Smiths' great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. Opening with the storming track, the album is harder rocking record than anything the band had attempted before. Johnny Marr has created here a wide range of guitar styles that provide a musical bed for Morrissey's best set of lyrics. From which is crafted some of their finest, most affective songs, particularly InchThe Boy with the Thorn in His SideInch and the epic InchThere Is a Light That Never Goes Out,Inch two masterpieces that provide the foundation for a remarkable album.

Luigi Borghi had an innovative interest for the viola. In his adaptation of the part originally conceived for the cello, the composer emphasizes all the potential abilities of the instrument, never skimping on the virtuoso passages and giving to the part a leading role and not that of an orchestral filler. Borghi's 6 Duets for a violin & cello or violin & tenor, op. 5 are presented here in the version for violin and viola for the first time on period instruments. Renowned period musicians Lorenzo Gugole and Giorgio Bottiglioni beautifully interpret this set.

Christoph Graupner, active for over 50 years at the Hessian court in Darmstadt, is a kind of insiders' tip whose rich musical production is hardly accessible.The reason his works remain largely unknown is that the original scores were kept strictly under lock and key for decades.The present CD introduces first recordings of three of his unusually colorful bass solo cantatas as well as an original Suite for Chalumeau.The melodic language of these cantatas frequently proceeds in tortuous paths; the content of the text repeatedly depicted with harmonic surprises and sharp dissonances.