Various Artists - Love & Death in Venice - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Fantasia Prelude 2. Behold! 3. Shiraz Sketch 4. Maqam Constellation 5. Quiet City a 6. Quiet City B 7. Simple Rotation 8. Grasshopper Dance 9. Leaves (For Mom) 10. Fantasia

Love! Is all about love. About love in the period from the 17th century to the 21st, via Russia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Germany, to England and the United States. About passionate love, motherly love, forbidden love and love lost. There is a love dance and much more. But Love! Is also about us, about our love for music and the unique combination formed by our instruments. Because the orchestral possibilities and the specifically melancholy tone color of the accordion form a magnificent blend with the scintillating and sonorous sound of the violin. This is the second on Challenge Classics by the unique duo of accordionist Marieke Hopman and violinist Cecile Hujnen. Album Tracks 1. Romeo & Juliet~Montagues & Capulets 2. Romeo & Juliet~Dance of the Girls 3. Romeo & Juliet~Mask Dance 4. Romeo & Juliet~From Death of Juliet 5. Chanson Russe 6. Tango 7. Ave Maria 8. From 'The Gipsy Songs' Op. 55 No. 4 Songs My Mother Taught Me 9. Summertime 10. All the Things You Are, Are Mine 11. Man I Love 12. So in Love 13. Sonata for violin & continuo No. 3 in D minor~Imitazione delle Campane 14. Candybox 15. Turks Fruit~Suite 16. Salut d'Amour, Op. 12

Like many education-hungry sons of the European nobility, the 18-year-old Prince Frederick August II embarked on his Grand Tour, which took him from Saxony to Venice in 1716, where he spent almost a year. The large entourage that accompanied the young prince on this trip included such great musicians as the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, the oboist Johann Christian Richter and the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. In Venice, an intense exchange with local stars such as Vivaldi developed, in an atmosphere of friendship and competition. On his return to Dresden, August took with him, in addition to Lotti and Veracini, Heinichen, whom he had met in Venice and who became his Kapellmeister. After acclaimed recordings of orchestral works by Handel and Bach, Zefiro now discovers this fascinating repertoire of music by Italians who composed in the French style and Germans who wrote Venetian concertos to impress the prince.