Friday 26 April 2013

Aires Del Virreinato




When searching for mexican composers and mexican music, basically one will find music dated from the second half of the XIX century and from the XX century, but what about earlier music? Music that occupied the viceroyalty period was in many factors forgotten and manuscripts were lied hidden in cathedrals, libraries or personal collections. Few musicologist have found the touch of this kind of music, a music different from the european baroque, a music with special mexican taste. One just must listenen to Sumaya or Jerusalem y Stella or Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, etc.

This disc presents music of composers whose music was performed in the New Spain, and many of they were spaniards.

Enjoy the "cantadas" and human tones, a music style that was in vogue in the first hal of XVII century in Spain and in the New World.

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Thursday 11 April 2013

Le Temps Des Castrats

Continuing with the great ara of the castrati in the age of enlightenment I share this cd even though some arias dont sound very good because the recordings are old, but talking about countertenors one doesnt miss Alfre Deller or James Bowman.


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Monday 1 April 2013

Jaroussky - Carestini (The Story of a Castrato)

Many of the castrato arias with we have pleasure nowadays, were written in fact spatially for those super stars at that time. This cd contains one pasticcio of arias composed for Carestini (Farinelli's main rival) by the some of the most renown composers of that time. The era of the castrati have finished and no one really know how it was the voice of such singers even though exist  a recording dated from 1902 of Alessandro Moreschi the last castrato, but I cant rely on the quality of the registration because sounds like a rat crying, so, better enjoy the natural countertenors and thrust in their approach to a real castrato voice.

EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 324 MB | Scans
MP3 320 Kbps | 162 MB | Scans
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