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Claudio Abbado – Concertato finale – “Il viaggio a Reims” – Gioacchino Rossini – Wien 1988. … I was there, it was very, very funny … . Exceptional c:ast: Cecilia Gasdia, Lucia Valentini Terrani, Lella Cuberli, Montserrat Caballé, Frank Lopardo, Chris Merritt, Samuel Ramey, Ruggero Raimondi, Enzo Dara, Carlos Chausson.

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Luciana Serra – “Tremar, Zenobia? … No non piangete” – Aria of Zenobia – “Aureliano in Palmira” – Gioacchino Rossini. 1980. I don’t really love Luciana Serra. But she was, in the late ’70s and first ’80, a perfect “coloratura soprano”, but with a powerful, solid voice, made of steel.

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Claudio Abbado – Jean Pierre Ponnelle – Gioacchino Rossini “La Cenerentola”, Act II, “Questo è un nodo avviluppato” (Sestetto) – Film version – 1981. Frederica Von Stade (Cenerentola) Claudio Desderi (Dandini) Francisco Araiza (Don Ramiro) Paolo Montarsolo (Don Magnifico) Margherita Guglielmi (Clorinda) Laura Zannini (Tisbe). Orchestra Teatro alla Scala.

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Claudio Abbado – Fredericka von Stade – Jean Pierre Ponnelle – “Nacqui all’affanno … Non più mesta accanto al fuoco” – Rondò finale de “La cenerentola” – G. Rossini (cinematic production). 1981

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R.I.P. Claudio Abbado, La Scala conductor for 20 years, dies at 80. Claudio Abbado, a star in the great generation of Italian conductors who was revered by musicians in the world’s leading orchestras for developing a strong rapport with them while still allowing them their independence, died Monday. He was 80. Abbado died at home […]

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Luca Casagrande & Scarlatti Camera Ensemble – “Udite! Amanti udite” – Cantata for Bass and Basso Continuo – Benedetto Marcello (1686 – 1739). Artistic Director and Producer Luca Casagrande From the CD “Udite”! Amanti – Cantate” – Centaurus Music.

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Luca Casagrande – “Sorge dal Gange” – Cantata a voce sola di Basso e Basso Continuo – Benedetto Marcello (1686 – 1739). Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording – “Benedetto Marcello – Udite! Amanti udite – Cantate” – ℗ 2006 Remastering 2013. Luca Casagrande Baritone Scarlatti Camera Ensemble Artistic Director and Producer Luca Casagrande © Luca […]

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Benedetto Marcello (1686 – 1739) – “Catone” (“Sventurata mia Patria”) – Cantata per Basso e B.C.. Luca Casagrande & Scarlatti Camera Ensemble Artistic Director and Producer Luca Casagrande – CD “Udite Amanti! – Cantate”. Manuscript Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale – Bologna – Italy.

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Benedetto Marcello was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. He was a member of a noble family and his compositions are frequently referred to as Patrizio Veneto. Although he was a music student of Antonio Lotti and Francesco Gasparini, his father wanted Benedetto to devote himself to law. Indeed, Benedetto Marcello combined a […]

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Johann Adolph Hasse (1699 – 1783) – “L’Armonica” – Cantata for Soprano, glass harmonica and orchestra (1769) – Libretto: Pietro Metastasio. Soprano Ursula Fiedler Orchestra Concilium Musicum Conductor M.° Paul Angerer The German soprano, Ursula Fiedler, studied violin and singing in Hannover and singing in Vienna. Ursula Fiedler has performed on the stage in compositions […]