Hasse / Giustiniani / Ensemble Barocco / Lavia - Johann Adolf Hasse: Artaserse - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

J.a. Hasse - Il Cantico Dei Tre Fanciulli [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/26/2001

This new is the eleventh volume in Profil's Semperoper Edition, and features Johann Adolf Hasse's three-act opera Attilio Regolo. Attilio Regolo is an Italian-language opera seria by Johann Adolph Hasse based on the story of Marcus Atilius Regulus, a Roman general taken prisoner in Carthage, who elects death rather than ransom. Metastasio wrote the libretto in 1740 for the birthday of the emperor Charles VI but the illness, then death, of the emperor prevented the libretto being set to music at the time. Hasse's opera was performed in Dresden in 1750. The role of Regolo was taken by the castrato Domenico Annibale, while Attilia was composed for Hasse's wife Faustina Bordoni. Frieder Bernius leads an all-star cast for this interpretation of the rarely performed work.

Digitally remastered edition of the Post Punk band's 1983 album. At the time their third album was released, The Sound was one of the UK's most acclaimed bands and were on the precipice of a commercial breakthrough. Having been upgraded from the Korova tag (also home to Echo & the Bunnymen) to Warner Bros., the group was met with tag demands to deliver a more commercial . In what many consider to be a willfully defiant move, The Sound delivered the challenging and more experimental All Fall Down, a record many of their most ardent fans still consider their most accomplished. It remains one of the great post-punk albums of the early '80s. The aura of Adrian Borland's well documented mental illness gives many of the songs a sinister edge. All Fall Down has proved itself over time to be an essential album it is a timeless, modern record that still sounds fresh, and it's high points match anything else in the group's canon.