Marco Beasley
Tenor Marco Beasley is a specialist in early music as well as new music written in those styles. With Guido Morini and Stefano Rocco, Beasley co-founded the early music ensemble Accordone. An active researcher and educator of the techniques of the Renaissance and Baroque, he is acclaimed for his vocal ability and for reviving forgotten styles.
Beasley was born on February 26, 1957, in Portici, near Naples, Italy. Growing up listening to classical and popular music on the radio, a revelation happened when traditional Napoli songs had a revival in popularity, spurring Beasley into re-creating the music with friends. In 1979, without any prior formal training, he began studying musicology at the University of Bologna, where one of his teachers was Cathy Berberian. While at university, Beasley developed an interest in Renaissance polyphony and recitar cantando, a style that he is credited with reviving. His ability to perform many different techniques -- from Gregorian chant, sacred and secular Renaissance and Baroque music to modern-day re-creations of earlier styles -- has taken him throughout Europe and North America, where he has performed in many of the world's top venues, including the Salzburg Mozarteum and New York's Lincoln Center.
In 1984, Beasley, with Morini and Rocco, founded Accordone, an early music ensemble Beasley continued to perform and record with until 2014, although he still occasionally performs with the group. Along with Morini, Beasley also wrote new music for Accordone, including Stella Diana and Tarantella Primma, siconna e terza. Beasley has recorded for several labels, including Cypres, Alpha, and Arts Music, among others. He began his recording career in a production of Alessandro Stradella's opera Moro per Amore. Since then, most of Beasley's recorded output has been with Accordone: among these are Le Frottole (2005), Recitar Cantando (2006), and Storie di Napoli (2012). In 2013, Beasley started self-producing albums that are sold exclusively at his performances, though he has continued issuing commercial releases, such as Meraviglia d'amore: Love Songs from 17th-century Italy on Accent in 2017 and La Porta d'Oriente on Glossa in 2020.
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Il Ponte di Leonardo
Marco Beasley, Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian
Classical - Released by Glossa on May 19, 2023
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La Tarantella : Antidotum Tarantulae (Extraits de la bande originale du film "Tous les soleils")
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar, Lucilla Galeazzi, Marco Beasley
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Jan 1, 2002
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La porta d'oriente
Marco Beasley, Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian
Chamber Music - Released by Glossa on Jun 26, 2020
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Fra' Diavolo: La musica nelle strade del regno di Napoli
Accordone, Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Pino de Vittorio
Classical - Released by Arcana on Nov 4, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Storie di Napoli
Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Accordone
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Oct 9, 2012
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Frottole
Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Stefano Rocco, Franco Pavan, Fabio Accurso, Bruce Dickey
Classical - Released by Cypres on Dec 27, 2005
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Castaldi: Ferita d'amore (Musiche in habito tiorbesco)
Evangelina Mascardi, Mónica Pustilnik, Marco Beasley
Classical - Released by Arcana on Jan 1, 2011
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La bella noeva (Alpha Collection)
Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Accordone
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Jan 1, 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Meraviglia d'amore: Love Songs from 17th Century Italy
Private Musicke, Marco Beasley, Pierre Pitzl
Classical - Released by Accent on May 26, 2017
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Le Strade del Cuore
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by MB on Jan 13, 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Catarì, Maggio, l'Ammore
Marco Beasley, Antonello Paliotti
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by MB on Apr 21, 2020
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Balsamino: Novellette A 6 Voci / Monteverdi: Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda
Marco Beasley, Giancarlo Rado, Guido Morini, Diego Fasolis, Madrigalisti della Radio Svizzera, Ensemble Vanitas
Classical - Released by Dynamic on Jan 1, 2000
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"Antidotum Tarantulae"
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar, Lucilla Galeazzi, Marco Beasley
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Jan 1, 2002
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O sole mio! (Live)
Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Alfio Antico, Accordone, Unknown Artist
Classical - Released by Fra Bernardo on May 7, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cantate Deo: A voce sola, in dialogo
Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Accordone
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Oct 22, 2013
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Due Radici
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by MB on Nov 11, 2020
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Il settecento napoletano
Classical - Released by Cypres on Oct 30, 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Morini: Solve et coagula
Marco Beasley, Guido Morini, Accordone
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Sep 22, 2014
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Per cantare e sonare
Ensemble del Riccio, Marco Beasley, Lorenzo Girodo
Symphonic Music - Released by Antes Edition on Jan 1, 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo