Master - Master - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Italian conductor Ottavio Dantone breathes new life into Cesare in Egitto, an opera by Geminiano Giacomelli (1692-1740) based on a libretto written by Domenico Lalli with the assistance of a young collaborator not yet in his thirties Carlo Goldoni. Cesare in Egitto, is considered to be Giacomelli's masterpiece; his drammi per musica enjoyed great success in Parma, Venice, Milan, Rome, Turin and Graz. He also influenced the most eminent musicians of his time Vivaldi, for example, used arias by Giacomelli in his pasticcio Bajazet. This world premiere recording was made with the Accademia Bizantina and first-rate soloists at the Innsbruck Festival, where Ottavio Dantone has been music director since 2024.

Time passes, the world changes, but some things remain constant and unassailable. Heavy metal has endured for more than four decades because it's spirit is eternal, and few bands embody the intensity, integrity and lofty artistic ambitions of the genre with more dazzling aplomb than Master. Formed in the US in the early-90s by singer/songwriter Paul Speckmann, this most explosive and proficient of extreme metal bands have spent the last 28 years propagating an unerring creed of technical excellence, songwriting genius and thunderous, irresistible live performance, accruing a huge global fan base along the way. And now, in 2019, Master are ready to rise again and climb ever further up the ladder toward pure metal supremacy. The band's core musical philosophy hasn't changed much since they started the band. It's still about creating intense heavy metal with extreme vocals and a lot of melody in the guitars. This CD contains 2 new studio- and 2 live songs with power, brutality and extreme old-school-metal blasts.

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