Wagner,M. / Alessi / Npco / Maazel - Music of Melinda Wagner - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Performer and scholar Vania Dal Maso has constructed an innovative programme exploring music for stringed keyboard instruments from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Based on the study and interpretation of sources, both on the instruments' construction and musical interpretation, she explores the profoundly different sounds and tone-colours of the clavichord, hammered clavicymbalum and clavicytherium. The music ranges widely in forms and genres from across Europe, including music sourced from the oldest-known manuscript for keyboard instruments - the Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1320) - to create the widest possible stylistic panorama of keyboard music of the time. Album Tracks 1. Redeuntes In Re 2. Retrové 3. Bel fiore dança 4. Stüblin ete. 5. Mi ut re ut e c d c Aliud Mi ut re ut E c d c 6. Tribum quem 7. C[on] l[agreme] 8. Con lacrime M.C.C. 9. fior(e) gentil m'apparse 10. Che pena questa 11. O ciecho mondo 12. dolce sere 13. Non na el so amante 14. Mensura trium notarum supra tenorem Frowe al myn hoffen an dyr lyed 15. Mensura duorum notarum eiusdem tenoris 16. Preambulum super g 17. Incipit bo(nus Tenor) Leohardi 18. Praeambulum super fa 19. Paumgartner 20. Praeambulum super re 21. Mit ganczem Willen wunsch ich dir 22. En avois 23. Annabasanna 3 24. Ellend du hast 25. J'ay pris amours 26. Dulongesux 27. Praeambulum super d a f et g 28. Adyen matres belle

Album Tracks 1. The Flying Dutchman 2. Rienzi 3. Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg 4. Tannhauser

Istanbul is the interface between orient and occident. The noises and urban sounds in connection with Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Macedonian songs as well as nomad chants belong to the culture of Istanbul like the centuries old architecture in the city. Some notable artists featured on this album include Volkan Yilmaz, who was born in Istanbul and studied at the Istanbul Conservatory under Fuat Tukelman and Salih Bilgin and began his career as a soloist at the radio station Istabul TRT, Gulay Diri, who was born in Southern Turkey where semi-nomadic people continue their lifestyle and she was influenced by their folk music, and Muammer Ketencoglu, who is an internationally renowned musician and one of the foremost Turkish artists performing today. These are folk songs, modern compositions, nomadic chants, and improvisations, all brought together to paint an aural portrait of this ancient city.