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Durante: Neapolitan Music for Christmas Volume II
Maria Piccinini (flute), Christina Kühne (soprano), Ursula Eittinger (mezzo), Alberto ter Doest (tenor), Thilo Dahlmann (bass-baritone)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Considering the fact that so little of Durante's vocal oeuvre has been recorded these discs are most welcome. In particular those who like to hear something less conventional during Christmastide...
Durante: Neapolitan Music for Christmas Volume II
Maria Piccinini (flute), Christina Kühne (soprano), Ursula Eittinger (mezzo), Alberto ter Doest (tenor), Thilo Dahlmann (bass-baritone)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
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Considering the fact that so little of Durante's vocal oeuvre has been recorded these discs are most welcome. In particular those who like to hear something less conventional during Christmastide...
About
The Kölner Akademie under its proven conductor Michael Willens now presents more atmospheric Christmas compositions by Francesco Durante, one of the greatest Neapolitan church composers of the first half of the eighteenth century.
Durante continued the Neapolitan tradition of composing Christmas cantatas or motets, with a series of vocal works that he assigned to the category of the ‘Pastorale’ in order to indicate their relation to the Feast of Christmas and to the shepherds in the field.
Contents and tracklist
- Monica Piccinini, Ursula Eittinger, Alberto ter Doest, Thilo Dahlmann
- Orchester der Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
- Monica Piccinini, Ursula Eittinger, Alberto ter Doest, Thilo Dahlmann
- Orchester der Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
- Monica Piccinini, Ursula Eittinger
- Orchester der Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
- Monica Piccinini, Christina Kuhne, Ursula Eittinger, Alberto ter Doest, Thilo Dahlmann
- Orchester der Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
Awards and reviews
November 2012
Considering the fact that so little of Durante's vocal oeuvre has been recorded these discs are most welcome. In particular those who like to hear something less conventional during Christmastide should investigate these discs.
