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• 18 Mar 2019

Maria Carla Curìa – “Le sylvain” Romance from “Péchés de vieillesse” Album III “Morceaux réservés” N.° 9 – Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868). Centaurus Music Int. Studio Album “Gioacchino Rossini – À Grenade – La Nuit règne – Melodie da Camera” – ℗ 2018. Maria Carla Curìa Soprano M.° Maurizio Agostini Piano Maria Carla Curìa […]

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• 18 Mar 2019

Loretta Liberato – “Bella, per te d’Amore” – Cantata for Alto & Basso Continuo – Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725) – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING. Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording “Alessandro Scarlatti – Lieti Boschi -Cantate” – ℗ 201𝟣 Loretta Liberato Alto M.° Giorgio Revelli Harpsichord Loretta Liberato & Giorgio Revelli Artistic Directors Luca Casagrande Producer. […]

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• 11 Gen 2019

“Poi che riseppe Orfeo” – Cantata per Soprano e Basso Continuo – Alessandro Scarlatti (𝟣660 – 𝟣725) – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING. Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording “Alessandro Scarlatti – Poi che riseppe Orfeo – Cantate – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING” – Remixed and remastered version – ℗ 20𝟣8 First Edition – ℗ 200𝟣. Maria Carla Curìa […]

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• 09 Gen 2019

This is the presentation of a CD that contains four cantatas for Soprano and Basso Continuo. The CD was published for the first time in 2001 by Centaurus Music Int., and a second time completely remixed and remastered, in 2018. It is an essay in Italian, written by Luca Casagrande and Filippo E. Ravizza. L’Età […]

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• 08 Gen 2019

Maria Carla Curìa – “Andate, o miei sospiri, Al Cor d’Irene” (“[…] fatta con idea inumana ma inregolato cromatico, e non è per ogni professore”- A. Scarlatti) – Alessandro Scarlatti (𝟣660 – 𝟣725) – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING. Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording “Alessandro Scarlatti – Poi che riseppe Orfeo – Cantate – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING” […]

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• 07 Gen 2019

Loretta Liberato – “Lieti Boschi, Ombre Amiche” – Cantata for Alto & Continuo – Alessandro Scarlatti (𝟣660 – 𝟣725) – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING. Centaurus Music Studio Recording “Alessandro Scarlatti – Lieti Boschi – Cantate” – ℗ 20𝟣𝟣 Loretta Liberato Alto M.° Giorgio Revelli Harpsichord Loretta Liberato & Giorgio Revelli Artistic Direction Luca Casagrande Producer. – […]

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• 18 Dic 2018

In 1997 I published my first monograph on CD dedicated to Cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti. I had identified thirteen beautiful Cantatas for Solo Bass (or Baritone) voice at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella Library (Naples), and at the Library of the Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome). Nine Cantatas with Continuo and four with […]

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• 18 Dic 2018

Alessandro Scarlatti (Palermo, 6.V.1660 – Napoli, 22.X.1725) è compositore di quasi prodigiosa fecondità. La sua produzione, pervenutaci nella quasi totalità in forma manoscritta, è diffusa nelle biblioteche di tutta Europa e non solo. L’attività teatrale del palermitano conta, secondo sue personali dichiarazioni, centoquindici melodrammi, di settanta dei quali abbiamo notizia sicura, mentre trentacinque sono arrivati […]

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• 18 Dic 2018

We are lucky to have so many extant versions of Callas performing La Sonnambula: 1955 at La Scala under Bernstein, 1957 live at Edinburgh, 1957 live at Cologne, and the 1957 studio version (the last three all being under Votto’s baton). This isn’t taking into account the studio excerpts recorded in 1955 under Serafin, which […]

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• 18 Dic 2018

Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with […]