L’Arte del Mandolino barocco
L’Arte del Mandolino barocco
Jade, Universal France 2007
The program on this cd will immerse you in the Baroque world of the mandolin, a universe where exuberance and opulence are sovereign, and skittishness flirts with bizarrerie and madness.
No music has been as vigorously energetic as that of the Baroque period, which is a hymn to life, feelings, and emotions, the striving for detail and beauty, le beau éternel…
It is therefore a great fresco of life itself that awaits you when you enter the magical world of plucked string instruments: a plethora of images, sounds and colours, light and shadow.
« Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls of men’s bodies? » Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, II, 3
Artemandoline
Juan Carlos Muñoz Baroque mandolin
Mari Fe Pavón Baroque mandolin
Manuel Muñoz Baroque guitar
Alla Tolkacheva Baroque baroque mandola & baroque mandolin
Francesco Civitareale Contrebasse
REVIEW
[...] the excellent virtuosos of Artemandoline have chosen to adapt to each nail or plectrum each instrumental part of a judiciously selected repertoire ... precious moments ... fluid texture. Their audacity is fully rewarded ... A success.
Roger-Claude Travers, Diapason
Sospiri d'amanti
Sospiri d'amanti
«Cantatas & arias»
Sony/2015. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
The world of cantatas for soprano, mandolin, violins and basso continuo is a wonderfully refined and original one. The music has been brought straight from Library shelves. Artemandoline has been updating centuries old forgotten manuscripts for a long time now. These musical treasures are full of surprises, having been found in libraries owned by local aristocracies, they recall the music performed in their residences.
An invitation to the intimate setting of an Austrian or Italian Court at the beginning of the XVIIIth century.
Contrasting voices and instruments performing as a solo or together will compete with charm and impetuosity to conjure up the vivacity and the beauty of the Italian music at the time. The program includes Cantatas by Caldara, Bononcini, Conti, Händel, Albinoni, Hasse, Gasparini, Paisiello and Mancini.
Artemandoline
Nuria Rial soprano
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Juan Carlos Muñoz & Mari Fe Pavón Mandolines baroques
François Fernandez, Christoph Hesse Violons 1
Anne Pekkala, Miriam Rudolph Violons 2
Gabriel Grosbard Alto
Manuel Muñoz Guitare baroque
Yasunori Imamura Théorbe
Michel Igisch Violoncelle & viole de gambe
Jean-Daniel Haro Violone & contrebasse
Jean-Christophe Leclère Clavecin
Alla Tolkacheva Mandolone & Mandole
Georges Barthel, Keiko Kinoshita Traverso
Maximilian Ehrhardt Harpe
Ursula Bruckdorfer Basson
REVIEW
[...] Artemandoline revives the music of the Austrian and Italian courts at the beginning of the 18th century. The soprano Nuria Rial offers here a beautiful range of tunes in which the voice dialogue with the plucked strings of the mandolin.
La médiathèque belge Note, CD Sospiri d’amanti. Sony