Marco Longhini - Madrigals Book 6 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The 'Concerto' was published five years after the Sixth Book had appeared. It represents a clear break with Monteverdi' earlier publications here the madrigal is transformed or, perhaps, it would be better to say it has vanished, at least in the fo.

Marco Longhini - Madrigals Book I [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/18/2003

The repertoire included in this recording by Marco Molaschi represents an important evidence in the panorama of harpsichord music of the eighteenth century. It was precisely as a harpsichord and singing teacher that Paradisi met his success in London, where he moved after his studies in his native Naples. Charles Burney - an important historian of English music - called him Inchthe great master of the harpsichordInch. The sonatas in the collection - dedicated to King George II of England - were published in 1754, precisely in the composer's London period and contributed significantly to affirming his fame as a virtuoso and composer of keyboard music.