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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Azione sacra in 2 acts, Libretto by Apostolo Zeno, First performance at the Royal Chapel, Vienna 1724
Marijana Mijanovic (contralto), Simone Kermes (soprano), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Birgit Christensen (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto) & Vito Priante (baritone) Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis David tells the story of David and Saul, covering very much the same ground as Handel’s magnificent Saul written fifteen years later. The tenor role of Saul in Conti’s work was taken by Francesco Borosini, who later sang for Handel in London and Alan Curtis speculates that Borosini may have shown the libretto to Handel. Certainly Handel, like Conti, includes the scene where David tries to calm Saul’s rage with a harp (in both works, David’s harp is represented by a theorbo), and Saul’s subsequent attempt to kill David with his javelin. Such comparisons were also made in Handel’s day. “'David' is a great find - an exceptionally inventive dramatic oratorio” BBC Music Magazine, August 2007 “Conti’s David is the CD rediscovery of the year.” The Times  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Monteverdi Vespers
Roberta Invernizzi, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli, Sara Mingardo, Francesco Ghelardini, Vincenzo di Donato, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Ferrarini, Pietro Spagnoli, Furio Zanasi, Antonio Abete, Daniele Carnovich Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini “This is as passionate and Italianate an account of this wonderful score as I have ever heard. Monteverdian nirvana.” (The Sunday Times) | | Naive - OP30403 (CD - 2 discs) Normally: $30.99 Special: $24.79 |
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| |  | Vivaldi - Dixit Dominus
Monique Zanetti, Emanuela Galli (sopranos); Susanna Moncayo von Hase (alto); Ian Honeyman, Mario Cecchetti (tenors) & Furio Zanasi (bass) Ensemble Vocale Il Canto di Orfeo & Ensemble Pian & Forte, Francesco Fanna We know of three settings that Vivaldi produced of the psalm Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109). Vivaldi's three settings are all in D major. Each belongs to a distinct period within Vivaldi's career, so that the progress from one setting to the next charts the evolution of his style - and all the more clearly since the liturgical text remains constant.The earliest of the Dixit Dominus settings, RV595, dates from 1713 to 1717. Like many works from Vivaldi's first period of sacred music composition, it has flamboyant instrumental parts but rather restrained vocal ones.The third setting, RV807, was discovered as recently as 2005 by the Australian scholar Janice Stockigt. RV807 retains the composer's interest in counterpoint but adds to it a new interest: in the florid kind of vocal writing that the Neapolitans were rapidly making universal. It probably dates from 1732 or shortly thereafter.The present recording prefaces each Dixit Dominus by a solo motet to which he gave the name 'introduzione'. Ascende laeta, RV635, in A major, was very likely conceived as a prelude to RV595, with which it shares certain features of melodic design. Canta in prato, ride in fonte, RV636, in G major, was probably designed to precede RV594, but can serve equally appropriately as a prelude to RV807. Rare repertoire in a revised edition from scholar Michael Talbot, who also writes the booklet notes. | 
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Sylva Pozzer, Laura Antonaz, Caroline Pelon, Elisabetta Tiso (soprano), Gabriella Martellacci, Paolo Costa, Andrea Arrivabene, Fabian Schofrin (alto), Makoto Sakurada, Michele Da Ros, Marco Scavazza, Mario Cecchetti (tenor), Furio Zanasi, Alfredo Grandini, Sergio Foresti, Salvo Vitale (bass) Sergio Balestracci |
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Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Furio Zanasi, Luca Dordoli (tenor) & Sergio Foresti, Antonio Abete (bass) Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini This new recording of Monteverdi’s “Orfeo”, a work which is generally considered to be the first true opera in musical history, marks its 400th anniversary. It is performed in a new version developed by one of the world’s leading experts on the composer’s music, Rinaldo Alessandrini and his internationally acclaimed ensemble Concerto Italiano, and presented in a luxurious limited edition of 2 CDs within an illuminating book. “The first opera to survive in the modern repertoire had its premiere in Mantua 400 years ago. It's hard to imagine a finer anniversary present than Alessandrini's superbly theatricl and brilliantly sung version” Sunday Times “…this is unquestionably the most subtle rendering of the Orfeo text that's available on compact disc. Furio Zanasi (Orfeo) is exceptionally good. Simboli (Euridice) is pure-voiced and clear, and Migardo uses the natural vulnerability in her sound movingly to project the distraught feelings of the Messenger.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2007 ***** BBC Music Magazine Opera Choice - November 2007 |
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Victor Torres (Orfeo), Adriana Fernandez (Euridice), Gloria Banditelli (Sylvia), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Speranza, La Musica), Antonio Abete (Caronte), Furio Zanasi (Plutone, Pastore IV), Roberta Invernizzi (Proserpina, Ninfa) & Maurizio Rossano (Apollo) Coro Antonio Il Verso & Ensemble Elyma, Gabriel Garrido 2CD's + Catalogue "Garrido's reading of Orfeo is dramatic, lively and committed, and it is well served by a carefully chosen and
well-matched cast. Gloria Banditelli almost steals the show with her highly coloured portrayal of the Messenger's fateful announcement which dramatically and effectively shifts the mood from pastoral bucolic to tragic." Gramophone | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Choreography: Bruno Steiner
Adriana Mortelliti, Sabrina Camera, Julia Wirth, Davide Cauli, Jochen Heckmann, Nunzio Verdenero, Antonella Calducci, Ruben Amoretti & Furio Zanasi Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Movers Ballet, Muhai Tang | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Carissimi - Mass and Cantata
Cristina Miatello, Lavinia Bertotti, Claudio Cavina, Sandro Naglia & Furio Zanasi Le Istituzioni Harmoniche, Marco Longhini | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | (The enemy of love being falling in love - a serenata)
Adriana Fernandez (soprano), Martin Oro (counter-tenor), Furio Zanasi (baritone) Ensemble 415, Chiara Bianchini | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | including extracts from Francesco Corselli's Farnace
Furio Zanasi, Adriana Fernández, Sara Mingardo, Gloria Banditelli, Sonia Prina, Cinzia Forte, Fulvio Bettini Coro del Teatro de la Zarzuela, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall See also Alia Vox AV9822 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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