Kancheli / Blumina - Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov & Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Principal bassoonist of the Hamburg Philharmonic, Christian Kunert, performs concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, Gordon Jacob, Jean Francaix and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Kunert is the recipient of many awards including the 2nd prize and public's choice award at the 57th annual ARD music competition in Munich, prize winner at the 1st Theodor-Rogler Chamber Music Competition and prize winner at the international woodwinds competition in Bayreuth, Germany.

Handel, Scarlatti, Corelli, Stradella, Muffat... From 1650 to the beginning of the eighteenth century, Rome exercised an immense power in attracting composers from all over Europe and experienced an intense moment of musical activity, because of - or in spite of - the papal administration. It was a prosperous period with a melting pot of influences. The programme devised here by the Roman conductor, Rinaldo Alessandrini, offers a complete and personal vision of the time, passionate and secular, lyrical (made sublime by Sandrine Piau) and orchestral, romantic in every way. Rinaldo Alessandrini is one of the leading figures in the international early music scene. His predilection for the Italian repertory and his constant preoccupation with the expressive characteristics specific to the Italian style of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the decisive factors that orientate his musical approach and interpretative options, both as the head of Concerto Italiano, of which he is the founder and director, and as a soloist and guest conductor.

Ekaterina Litvintseva - Works for Piano & Orchestra [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/26/2023