Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. To build this Garden of Sighs, Magdalena Kožená and Václav Luks summon Handel and his Italian cantatas, dramatic scenes built like an opera act, and Venetian and Neapolitan composers of the same period.įrom manipulative Agrippina, ready to stoop to anything to put her son Nero on the throne, to the magician Armida bewitching Rinaldo, and the priestess Hero who cannot survive her lover Leander’s accidental death, Magdalena Kožená gives flesh to these legendary heroines, with all the depth and virtuosity of her singing. Listen free to Concerto Italiano Vivaldi: Armida (Armida al campo dEgitto, RV 699A: Sinfonia - Allegro, Armida al campo dEgitto, RV 699A: Sinfonia - Andante and more). LP USSR, RUSSIA MELODIYA NM/NM (cover/record) 20093 cover. The figures of women prey to the vagaries of fate and the throes of passion abound in this central style of baroque music. Liana ISAKADZE - Vivaldi violin concertos, Overure to Armida al campo d Egitto UNPLAYED (Item w18557). Handel was one of the most fertile composers of this form. The most theatrical librettos soon found the finest musical setting, giving birth to tragedies in music, giving way to opera seria in Italy. Tragedy has always inspired the most beautiful pages to musicians. The Czech ensemble contributed among other to the rediscovery of Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis in Versailles and of Vivaldi’s opera Arsilda. She is the singer who performed the greatest number of Vivaldis operas, the one who kept them in her repertoire the longest time and who made them known across the largest geographical area. Václav Luks will accompany her with his Collegium 1704. She is best remembered for her numerous collaborations with composer Antonio Vivaldi who wrote operatic roles for her. The famous Czech mezzo-soprano, a wonderful interpreter of great baroque heroines, Magdalena Kožená, will lend her sensuous and expressive voice to her favourite repertoire.
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