Various Artists - Il Gioco Della Cieca - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

YL Male Voice Choir - Talescapes [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/26/2010

In his first album for Challenge Classics, Sergio Foresti, one of leading baroque baritones of our days, sings a subtly thought-out selection of arias written for Giuseppe Maria Boschi, the most famous baritone in London at the time of Handel and Bononcini. The recital is made of mostly unknown arias and is characterized by a widest range of moods and atmosphere that makes the listening always engaging. Foresti is accompanied by a stunning first-rate baroque orchestra Abchordis Ensemble. To complete the presentation of a top-class , we highlight the higher quality of both the recording and the production.

Since the 1970s, the instrumental repertoire for double bass has been enriched with a considerable amount of new literature. We are facing what can be defined as the InchrenaissanceInch of the double bass, which revolves around key players such as Fernando Grillo, Franco Petracchi, Joëlle Léandre and Stefano Scodanibbio. The disruption with the virtuosity of previous solo literature is radical the emulation of the expressiveness of the other string instruments (which increased a quasi-complex of inferiority towards violinists and cellists) definitively gives way to the specificities of the double bass, so that the new literature becomes idiomatic. This collection of pieces therefore aims to be an update to the traditional double bass repertoire. In fact, it brings together works composed starting from the 1970s by some of the most representative Italian composers of the second half of the 1900s. The pieces in question have had, for various reasons, a large consensus among double bass players, and continue to have more and more, surviving the oblivion of the first performance, and fully entering the corpus of InchstandardInch literature for solo double bass.