Rivera Andrea - Prossime Aperture - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in Bologna, Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) spent all his life between his birth city and Modena, where he moved in 1674. There is something noteworthy in this geography of the composer Vitali's move from Bologna, then part of the Papal States under the administration of Rome, to the smaller but significantly more secular and artistically stimulating Modena, under the rule of the splendid Este family, is suggestive of a desire to achieve greater expressive freedom. Artificii Musicali (Modena, 1689) has given Vitali a respectable place in music history, particularly if one considers the oft supposed idea that it served as inspiration for J.S. Bach's Musical Offering, J. Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) and G.B. Martini's Saggio Fondamentale Pratico di Contrappunto sopra il Canto Fermo (1774). Vitali's Artificii Musicali appeared at a historical crossroad, during the final decades of the 17th century, when there was an explosive rise in instrumental music. There are 40 canons in this work and interspersed among them there are 4 that can be classified as riddle-canons or enigma-canons. These intriguing pieces are accompanied by a brief Latin motto containing the key for their realization, which is left to the reader to decipher (of note, Bach also included two riddle-canons with Latin mottos in the Musical Offering). The final 9 pieces in the Artificii are an eclectic collection of balletti, capricci, a passagallo, and 2 violin sonatas, representative of the main forms of instrumental music at the end of the 17th century. Although Artificii was originally written for violin and bass, Andrea Coen performs here on a harpsichord, and furthermore a harpsichord in equal temperament. Album Tracks 1. Piano Concerto No.16 in D Major K451 2. Piano Concerto No.8 in C Major K246 3. Piano Concerto No.19 in F Major K459

Album Tracks 1. Réminiscences de Lucia Di Lammermoor 2. Marche Et Cavatine de Lucia Di Lammermoor 3. Miserere Du Trovatore 4. Rigoletto Paraphrase de Concert 5. Salve Maria de Jérusalem (I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata) 6. Sacred Dance and Final Duet from Aida 7. Pilgrims' Chorus from Tannhäuser 8. Isoldens Liebestod from Tristan Und Isolde

Album Tracks 1. Impromptu NR. 4 Cis-Moll Op. 66 InchFantasie-ImpromptuInch 2. Mazurka NR. 13 A-Moll Op. 17 NR. 4 3. Fantasie F-Moll Op. 49 4. Berceuse Des-Dur Op. 57 5. Nocturne NR. 9 H-Dur Op. 32 NR. 1 6. NR. 2 C-Moll 7. Ballade NR. 2 F-Dur Op. 38 8. Polonaise NR. 1 Cis-Moll Op. 26 NR. 1 9. Scherzo NR. 3 Cis-Moll Op. 39 10. NR. 3 G-Dur 11. NR. 4 E-Moll 12. NR. 6 H-Moll 13. NR. 9 E-Dur 14. NR. 21 Cis-Moll 15. Prã©Lude NR. 25 Cis-Moll Op. 45