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" Romancing the Romanesca"
Italian works tracing a well-known harmonic formula from
keyboard to vocal music and back to cello; Haydn goes country, but
with beautiful sophisticated-yet-innocent overlay of violin and
cello; a little-known but drop-dead gorgeous cello sonata by an
Italian cellist; selected Bach arias for soprano with violin obbligato;
emotionally-charged early Italian songs by Caccini, an early baroque
master.
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"The Talented Mr. Stradella"
The exciting and unpredicable Alessandro Stradella strikes
chords with meditative violin variation set on 13 bar cello ostinato
pattern; then takes on dueling cello and violin for a hysterical
romp; the elusive Isabella Leonarda becomes a superior nun in the
writing of sacred and secular pieces; Geminiani goes Scottish in
his renditions of Scottish folk tunes with violin obbligato; Bach
arias for Soprano and Alto, in which a male countertenor transacts
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"Bridge over Troubled Seine"
Ensemble Suave goes gaily Gallic with a selection of tear-jerking
and bodice-ripping vocal music, including a hot chick set by Mondonville,
and sensitive art of touching the clavecin by Couperin, plus Barriere,
served up with plein angst by cello.
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"A Little
Nachschlag Music"
We brake for Schmelzer, and hope you will, too. Other
Germanic types will be tastefully displayed, especially the famous
"anonymous", that scamp Rosenmuller, and of course Froberger,
Froberger, Froberger (baroque's version of Marcia, Marcia, Marcia).
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