Wolf Castle - Da Vinci's Inquest - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Wolf Castle's new record begins in shadow, during a dark night of the Mi'kmaq rapper's soul. Over the album's 12 tracks, he traces the moon as it makes it's way across the sky, unraveling his own personal anxieties in the darkness, coming to terms with growing up, paying tribute to the place and people who shaped him, putting bigots in their place, speaking up for those who have trouble speaking up for themselves, and forging a path forward. Fuelled by Wolf's signature cerebral, breakneck flow, powerful beats, and hooks that nod to classic R&B and '90s hip-hop hits, Waiting for the Dawn isn't a coming-of-age story. It's about figuring out how to live when you get there. In contrast to the youthful braggadocio of Wolf's 2021 EP Da Vinci's Inquest, Waiting for the Dawn finds the Canadian artist fully grown, investigating his place in the world and how to take care of the people around him.

For many years Fabio Biondi has been investing Italian scores with his own form of imaginative and deeply-considered musicality, and it is no real surprise to find him extending his reach past the Baroque and Classical eras and into early Romanticism with this Glossa of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Bellini's masterpiece, first performed in 1830 - to Felice Romani's story of love confronted by struggles for power - seamlessly incorporates large sections from a previously unsuccessful opera and, as did Rossini before him, Bellini calls for a mezzo-soprano in the male lead role. Vivica Genaux, Romeo in Biondi's production with Europa Galante, is joined by Valentina Farcas as Giulietta and supported by Davide Giusti (Tebaldo), Fabrizio Beggi (Lorenzo) and Ugo Guagliardo (Capellio). In his accompanying notes to this , Biondi, aspiring to allow listeners to discover new details in and new perspectives on the musical score, writes concerning issues of modern performance of the work, including acoustical details, score markings and tempi choices.