Vinaccesi Ensemble - Solo Cantatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Beethoven / Debussy / Prokofiev / Andreeva - Natalia Andreeva plays Piano Sonatas [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/20/2017

Composer-pianist Riopy returns with his fifth album InchBe LoveInch - his first key music since 2023's InchThriveInch. The 12 track album is comprised of 6 cinematic piano-instrumental tracks - a return to his roots of cinematic solo piano - and 6 more expansive tracks where Riopy experiments with his voice from meditative whispers to raw and emotive lyricism. The composer-instrumentalist has utilised numerous ways to produce sound, just never his own voice. InchI had this compulsion, this need to use my voice, because I think it's one of the biggest fears I've had through my life. It felt right. I needed to do this. InchBe LoveInch was recorded on Riopy's dream instrument, the Steinway Spirio. It was mixed by GRAMMY-winning producer Oli Jacobs (Peter Gabriel, Lana Del Rey, Van Morrison) who has masterfully entwined Riopy's evocative vocals with his delicate piano tracks.

Antonio Veracini (1659 -1733) was born in Florence during the Renaissance, and developed a career as a composer under the Medici patronage. He worked in close contact with the most eminent figures of the court and managed the best music school of the city. This features the ten violin sonatas Opus 2 composed in 1694, which were officially conceived Inchto provide practice works for beginnersInch but actually require of performers excellent technical skills, and are equally noteworthy for their wealth of inspiration. As often occurred at that time, the sonatas are dedicated to members of the Tuscan elite of the day, which makes them even more evocative. The collection is not only varied in it's contents but also substantially well-structured. The sonatas consist of a minimum of three to a maximum of five movements of different character, anticipating, also on account of the way in which the music material is treated, characteristic traits of what would be Corelli's successful Opus 5 (1700). The edition of Antonio Veracini's sonatas consists of two scores, one for the violin and one for the Inchharpsichord or the violoneInch.