Il giardino delle delizie
ARTEMANDOLINE & NURIA RIAL
Il giardino delle delizie
Craze seems to have kindled a fascination for a number of instruments prominent during the second half of the 18th century. Plucked string instruments such as the guitar, the mandolin and the cittern were much in vogue during this period.
Arias & works by: Mozart, Paisiello, Leone, Caldara, Bononcini, Conti, Händel…
Performers: 6 musicians & Nuria Rial, soprano
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.
Throughout this programme you will hear some aspects of the Italian style which made its mark on composers of the time , and inundated the 18th century European courts.
REVIEW
[...] Magnificent what the Baroque Artemandoline Ensemble does for the rehabilitation of the Mandolin: The small baroque mandolin with its brilliant and penetrating sound was the miracle of Pentecost at the Festival "Tage Alter Musik Regensburg".
Tage Alter Musik Regensburg. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Kristina-Maidt-Zinke.
Il viaggio musicale
ARTEMANDOLINE
Il viaggio musicale
Balli, Concerti, Sonate & Sinfonie
During the Baroque period concertos for mandolin were highly appreciated, as confirmed by the countless manuscripts to be found in European libraries. Starting in Naples the mandolin spread rapidly throughout Italy and all over Europe. In the programme «Focus on the concertos» the scene is set as soon as the first notes resound, we are overwhelmed by this music. The breath taking strokes of the mandolins engulfs us. An incredible freedom takes hold, speed, virtuosity, a dialogue between the soloist and the bows...
A repertoire full of energy: a hymn to the emotions.
Works by: F. Caroso, Arrigoni, Trento, Piccone, Romaldi, Dall’Abacco, Vivaldi, Brescianello, Merula, Falconieri, Reali…
Performers: 6 musiciens
No other music had such boundless energy as the music of the Baroque period; it is a hymn to life, to feelings, to emotions, in its search for detail and beauty, eternal beauty. In this programme you will be presented with a huge fresco of life. The baroque period, complex and versatile explored new means of expression, above all, new tone colours. The Baroque musician's curiosity for the most refined sounds, among them, the mandolins, directed their research in favour of an aesthetically pleasing and resounding style.
REVIEW
In the opulent Golden Hall of the Palace Rundāle (Latvia) we heared a delightful recital of Scarlatti, Dall’Abaco, Vivaldi and Veracini by the Luxembourg-based ArteMandoline ensemble. As the name would imply, the group comprises Baroque mandolins, Baroque guitar, viola da gamba and cembalo. This was musicianship of the highest calibre in an ideal setting of intimacy and charm.
Jonathan Sutherland, Bachtrack