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The casual browser might assume from the large word Farinelli and the picture of a bearded hipster dude in the graphics that this is another album devoted to arias connected with Italian castrato Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. But look more closely: the title, "El Maestro," is in Spanish. The album deals with Farinelli's tenure in Madrid, where he held the title of chamber musician to King Philip V and was a sort of impresario. His performing career was over by this time, and the album is mostly instrumental (a couple of countertenor arias, one of them the Farinelli hit Alto giove, are included), consisting of music by composers with whom Farinelli was associated, and might have programmed in Spain. This may seem a slender concept on which to hang the relaunch of the venerable Archiv early music imprint, and about all you can say in its favor is that the music is a great deal of fun. The program mixes opera overtures of the middle 18th century with some engaging dances by Spanish composer José de Nebra, the aforementioned arias, and independent symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Adolf Hasse. The music is all almost unknown, and it is for the most part zippy and extremely attractive. Start in with the very first track, the overture to La festa cinese (The Chinese Festival) of Nicola Conforto, with its unique rhythmic drive, and then sample the overtures by Jommelli and Traetta, opera seria composers who are almost forgotten today but whom any fan of the time would have known. The Concerto Köln, with a solid group of 28 players, gives this novel music a good deal of rhythmic zest, and it's hard not to conclude that even if the concept is strange, if that's what it took to get the music rediscovered, the effort was worth it. Archiv's studio sound is masterful.
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La festa cinese (Nicola Conforto)
Concerto Koln - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Nicola Conforto, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Carlo il Calvo (Nicola Porpora)
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Nicola Porpora, Composer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Sinfonia Op. 5, No. 6 (Johann Adolf Hasse)
Johann Adolf Hasse, Composer - Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Adolf Hasse, Composer - Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Adolf Hasse, Composer - Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Vendado amor es, no ciego ( Zarzuela) (José de Nebra)
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Jose de Canizares, Author - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Sinfonia in E Minor "Fandango", Wq. 178 (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist - Francesco Corradini, Composer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
La dicha en la desgracia y vida campestre (Juan Marcolini)
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist - Juan Marcolini, Composer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Polifemo (Nicola Porpora)
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Nicola Porpora, Composer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paolo Antonio Rolli, Author - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - José de Nebra, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Niccolò Jommelli, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Armida (Tommaso Traetta)
Concerto Koln, Ensemble, MainArtist - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Tommaso Traetta, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
The casual browser might assume from the large word Farinelli and the picture of a bearded hipster dude in the graphics that this is another album devoted to arias connected with Italian castrato Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. But look more closely: the title, "El Maestro," is in Spanish. The album deals with Farinelli's tenure in Madrid, where he held the title of chamber musician to King Philip V and was a sort of impresario. His performing career was over by this time, and the album is mostly instrumental (a couple of countertenor arias, one of them the Farinelli hit Alto giove, are included), consisting of music by composers with whom Farinelli was associated, and might have programmed in Spain. This may seem a slender concept on which to hang the relaunch of the venerable Archiv early music imprint, and about all you can say in its favor is that the music is a great deal of fun. The program mixes opera overtures of the middle 18th century with some engaging dances by Spanish composer José de Nebra, the aforementioned arias, and independent symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Adolf Hasse. The music is all almost unknown, and it is for the most part zippy and extremely attractive. Start in with the very first track, the overture to La festa cinese (The Chinese Festival) of Nicola Conforto, with its unique rhythmic drive, and then sample the overtures by Jommelli and Traetta, opera seria composers who are almost forgotten today but whom any fan of the time would have known. The Concerto Köln, with a solid group of 28 players, gives this novel music a good deal of rhythmic zest, and it's hard not to conclude that even if the concept is strange, if that's what it took to get the music rediscovered, the effort was worth it. Archiv's studio sound is masterful.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:18
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Concerto Köln Pablo Heras-Casado
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Archiv Produktion
- Genre: Classical
© 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, Under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, Under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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