Various Artists - Triomphe D'iris/Pastorale - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A follow up to their album Vivaldi X2, this new offering from baroque specialists Las Serenissima combines further double concerti by Antonio Vivaldi with works for violin, cello, oboe, recorder and continuo. The previous album received rave reviews including Recording of the Month from BBC Music Magazine. These are some of Vivaldi's most colourful and joyful works, and with director Adrian Chandler at the helm listeners can look forward to further baroque excellence from this dynamic ensemble. Album Tracks 1. Concerto for 2 Violins, 2 Oboes, 2 Recorders, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 557 I. Allegro Non Molto 2. Concerto for 2 Violins, 2 Oboes, 2 Recorders, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 557 II. Largo 3. Concerto for 2 Violins, 2 Oboes, 2 Recorders, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 557 III. Allegro Non Molto 4. Concerto for 2 Cellos, Strings & Continuo in G, RV 531 Allegro 5. Concerto for 2 Cellos, Strings & Continuo in G, RV 531 II. Largo 6. Concerto for 2 Cellos, Strings & Continuo in G, RV 531 III. Allegro 7. Concerto for 2 Flutes, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 533 I. Allegro Molto 8. Concerto for 2 Flutes, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 533 II. Largo 9. Concerto for 2 Flutes, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 533 III. Allegro 10. Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings & Continuo in G, RV 516 I. Allegro Molto 11. Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings & Continuo in G, RV 516 II. Andante 12. Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings & Continuo in G, RV 516 III. Allegro 13. Concerto for 2 Oboes, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 534 I. Allegro 14. Concerto for 2 Oboes, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 534 II. Largo 15. Concerto for 2 Oboes, Strings & Continuo in C, RV 534 III. Allegro 16. Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings & Continuo in B?, RV 524 I. Allegro 17. Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings & Continuo

The Voce Quartet writes InchPlaying the demanding and constantly shifting string quartet repertory is enough to fill up four lives. Buoyed up by this heritage, we wanted to explore less well-known territories. In the early years of the twentieth century, Bartok and Kodaly roamed the villages of Hungary and Romania, collecting, transcribing and recording hundreds of folk tunes and songs. Building on a number of encounters with leading figures of jazz and world music, we asked five instrumentalist-composers to write us pieces inspired by musical worlds to which they feel close. In addition to these new compositions, we wanted to record Escalay by the Egyptian oud player Hamza el Din who died in 2006, a nod to the Kronos Quartet whose approach is an inspiration to us.Inch The Voce Quartet is Sarah Dayan and Cecile Roubin (violins), Guillaume Becker, and Lydia Shelley. Album Tracks 1. Bethklang 2. In the Element 3. Méditation 4. Danse 5. Suite Capoeira 6. Sawah Padi / Putri Cening Ayu 7. Escalay (Water Wheel)

To Renaissance court of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, arrived an eccentric thirty year old man from Florence. It was 1482. He was a mathematician, anatomist, philosopher, constructor, astronomer... But not many people know, that he was also a musician. One of his 16th century biographers wrote, that the Sforzas hired Leonardo not as a painter nor architect, but - what might surprise us - as a musician and a party organizer of impeccable manners. Leonardo called music a worse sister of painting, because a painting lasts forever and music has no material form. It exists only in the moment of the performance, moreover - it dies in the moment of the birth. That's why music couldn't stand comparison to architecture or sculpture. None of Leonardo's musical compositions survived, but apart from many drawings and fragments of treatises, in his notebooks there are also rebuses and... musical riddles, all written in mirror reflection. In at least 18 riddles, Leonardo da Vinci used musical notation. These musical InchgamesInch were not only notes, but they created sentences, because according to solmisation, a method created by Guido of Arezzo, every note has it's own name - 'ut' (later replaced by a much easier to pronounce 'do'), 're', 'mi', 'fa', 'sol', 'la', 'si'. When put into shape, with decoded meaning of the text, they turn out to be incredibly powerful, hypnotic and nostalgic melodies. The present presents music inspired by Da Vinci's enigmas. Album Tracks 1. Re la Sol Mi Fa Sol 2. Trionfo de Bacco E Ariadna 3. Ostinato Vo' Seguire 4. Amore LÀ Sol Mi Fa Remirare 5. Dilla Dal Aqua 6. Cavalier Di Spagna 7. Calata Alla Spagnola 8. Venere InchVera la SchiumaInch, Canto Ad Lyram 9. Romanesca - Chi Vuol Bevere - Pesaro Ms 10. Ben Venga Maggio 11. Mille Regretz 12. Amore Mi Fa Solazzare 13. Ingenio Musicale 14. Non E Tempo D'aspettare 1