Baldassare Galuppi

Galuppi - La Caduta di Adamo

Galuppi was a very accomplished composer and harpsichord player by the age of twenty with a reputation in both Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Marcello and played for Vivaldi. He composed many serious and comic operas as well as much sacred and keyboard music. During his 79 years he travelled to St Petersburg and was well-known to the Tsar‘s family. He collaborated with the famous Italian playwright Goldoni in many projects. Goldoni‘s epigram on Galuppi: “What music! What style! What masterworks!”

Orthodox Chant

For their second recording together, Paul Hillier leads the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in a selection of deeply moving sacred choral masterworks from the Slavic tradition of “Divine worship.” Dmitry Bortniansky’s sublime setting of The Cherubic Hymn represents one of the supreme summits of Orthodox liturgy.

Arias for Farinelli

Thanks to the cinema, Farinelli is now popularly seen as the archetype of Baroque vocal art. His timbre and technique were an inspiration to the composers of his time, and many opera arias bearing the mark of Farinelli have come down to us. A selection of these, many of them never recorded before, is performed here by the American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, one of the few singers capable of doing justice to this demanding repertory. Long acquainted with these virtuoso arias and the vocal technique they require, René Jacobs has provided specially written decorations for each of them.

Vivaldi - Dixit Dominus

Arias for Farinelli

Settecento Veneziano

18th-century Flute Concertos

Music From The Orphanges Of Venice

Venetian Composers in Guatemala & Bolivia

This new CD features world-premier recordings of restorations of musical works by two composers from the Venice region, Giacomo Facco and Baldassarre Galuppi, which are conserved in the Archives of the Cathedral of Guatemala. Baldassare Galuppi was born on Burano island, on October 18, 1706. and died in Venezia on January 3, 1785. His fame during his lifetime came largely through his popular comic operas, although, as assistant chapel master at St Marks for several years he also produced a significant amount of church music. The composer, keyboard-player, violinist and cellist Giacomo Facco (1676 – 1753) was one of the many Italian musicians working in the eighteenth century at the Spanish court. He served as a member of the Capilla Real and taught the children of Don Luis and Don Carlos, the future King Luis I and King Carlos III. Antonio Gaetano Pampani was born in Modena in Italy around 1705, and died in Urbino in 1775. After an early spell working at the opera in Urbino, he was maestro di cappella at Fano Cathedral between the years of 1726 and 1734. Later, as director of the chorus and orchestra of the Ospedaletto orphanage in Venice, he wrote oratorios, solo motets, along with other sacred music and concertos.. The ensemble Albalonga has produced several first modern-day performances of works by Latin-American composers as well as the recently discovered works of Giacomo Facco. Since its inception the ensemble and its conductor by Anibal E. Cetrangolo have devoted themselves to the recording of the colonial American musical heritage.