Diego Fasolis
If the Swiss canton of Ticino is a land of architects (yesterday Solari da Carona, Borromini and Trezzini who played active roles in the construction of the Kremlin in Moscow, Papal Rome and St Petersburg respectively; today Mario Botta, the most famous of all), it is also a land of architects of sound - musicians, with Edwin Loehrer, the great pioneer of baroque music, Hermann Scherchen who, in the 1950s, founded the electro-acoustic music studio of Gravesano (a distant precursor to IRCAM). Later, the Ticinese violinist Chiara Banchini would found her Ensemble 415 which was so important to the rediscovery of Italian baroque music; and today the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano and the figure of Diego Fasolis which form the focal points of Ticinese music.
An organist (he worked with Gaston Litaize in Paris), choirmaster, and conductor, Diego Fasolis is a vital part of baroque music. In 1995 he founded the Vanitas ensemble in Lugano, and then I Barocchisti (literally, the Baroques) which represents the refoundation of the famous Società cameristica di Lugano set up by Loehrer in 1961 to which we owe the first great recordings of Claudio Monteverdi's Madrigals. The ensemble took a great leap forward in its new incarnation under the baton of Diego Fasolis. The Barocchisti's many recordings have been showered with awards and great international soloists regularly come to collaborate with them, including Philippe Jaroussky, Maurice Steger, Max Emanuel Cencic, and, in recent years, Cecilia Bartoli who has set up a close collaboration. This dazzling activity has not stopped Diego Fasolis from being a guest conductor at Milan's La Scala, in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, at the Lausanne Opéra and at the Château de Versailles where he has been a regular fixture since 2013.
Diego Fasolis's discography, which is published across several labels, is very dense and representative of his wide range of activities at the head of various ensembles such as his Coro Della Svizzera Italiana, I Barocchisti, l’Ensemble Vanitas or the Sonatori De La Gioiosa Marca.
Among his great successes, we may cite the album MISSION with Cecilia Bartoli and Cecilia Bartoli-Saint Petersburg, the recording of the Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci (no relation to the painter of the Mona Lisa!) with Philippe Jaroussky, as well as Farnace by Vivaldi with the same artist. In terms of discoveries, we might list Mozart's Les Mystères d’Isis... or the Magic Flute as it might have been performed in 19th Century Paris, or rather as the masterpiece was shamelessly packaged and sold at the time. Even if the reconstruction is thrilling, we can understand why Berlioz came to the fore.
Diego Fasolis's eclecticism is stupefying, and makes stupendous discoveries possible, such as the Requiem Mass by Camille Saint-Saëns, Faramondo by Handel (with Cencic), The Passion of Jesus Christ by Paisiello and works by Steffani, Piccini, Eisler, and Durante. A masterly way of straddling the generations - or, rather, bestriding them like a colossus.
© François Hudry/QOBUZ/November 2017
Artistas semelhantes
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Sacred Choral Music
Paolo Crivellaro, Furio Zanasi, Dorothee Labusch, Radio Svizzera Choir, Lugano, Diego Fasolis, Ulrich Rausch
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 20/05/1997
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Trompettes & orgue (Baroque italien)
Claude Rippas, Diego Fasolis, Mauro Ghisletta
Chamber Music - Lançado por Divox em 04/01/2011
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Mozart / Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith : Les Mystères d'Isis
Full Operas - Lançado por Glossa em 16/10/2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Orgelbüchlein
Classical - Lançado por Brilliant Classics em 07/03/2013
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Paisiello: Passione Di Gesu Cristo (La)
Classical - Lançado por CPO em 01/01/2007
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SCARLATTI, A.: Martirio di St. Cecilia (Il) (Fasolis)
Sacred Oratorios - Lançado por CPO em 01/01/2008
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St. Petersburg
Cecilia Bartoli, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2013
Gramophone Editor's ChoiceQualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Le Donne Vendicate
Concertos - Lançado por Chandos em 01/02/2004
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Galuppi: Il mondo alla roversa (The World Turned Topsy-Turvey)
Opera - Lançado por Chandos em 01/08/2001
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Eisler: Mother (The) / 4 Pieces / Woodburry-Liederbuchlein (Excerpts) / Litanei Vom Hauch
Cantatas (secular) - Lançado por Chandos em 01/05/2000
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Senfl: Missa Paschalis und Motetten
Coro della Svizzera Italiana, Diego Fasolis
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Musiques Suisses em 29/10/2002
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Steffani: Danze E Ouvertures
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2013
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Mosaico Barocco: Bach, Marcello, Vivaldi, Händel
Classical - Lançado por Claves Records em 01/01/2000
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Piccinni: Le Donne Vendicate
Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti, Vincenzo Di Donato, Giuliana Castellani, Mauro Buda, Sylva Pozzer
Opera - Lançado por Chandos em 01/02/2004
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Furstenau: 6 Masonic Songs / 12 Pieces
Mario Carbotta, Aldo Martinoni, Radio Svizzera Choir, Lugano, Diego Fasolis
Classical - Lançado por Dynamic em 01/01/1999
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo