Tag: baroque
Birds on a Wire: Ramages
Sur la place où tout est tranquilleUne fille s’est mise à chanter On the square, where everything is quietA girl has started singing Jacques Brel Franco-American singer songwriter Rosemary Standley and Brazilian-born singer and cellist Dominique Pinto (aka Dom La Nena) released their enchanting self-titled…
Jean-Louis Matinier & Marco Ambrosini: Inventio
Initiated as early as 2008 by ECM Records founder and producer Manfred Eicher, the Jean-Louis Matinier and Marco Ambrosini duo introduces the rare encounter between the accordion, a modern free reed instrument that has been widely adopted by many folk and popular traditions around the world…
Birds on a Wire
Birds on a Wire is an enchanting voice and cello duo formed by French-American singer Rosemary Standley (with multinational France-based alt-folk band Moriarty) and young Brazilian singer, songwriter and cellist Dominique Pinto aka Dom la Nena. Initiated by Rosemary Standley in 2011 as “Rosemary’s Songbook”, the…
Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XX: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (the Red Book of Montserrat) is a 14th century codex compiled by monks and still preserved in the library of the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat located outside Barcelona in North-Eastern Spain. The monastery was at the time an…
Jon Balke, Amina Alaoui & Jon Hassell: Thulâthiyat
Following a five minute instrumental introduction, the first few lines from “O Andalusin” sung by Amina Alaoui set the tone of Siwan, a very ambitious orchestral project released in 2009 under the musical supervision of Norwegian keyboard player and composer Jon Balke. The project celebrates…
Yann-Fañch Kemener & Aldo Ripoche: Ar veleien
Since his début in 1977, traditional Breton singer Yann-Fañch Kemener has made a huge contribution to the popularity of gwerzioù (unaccompanied laments) and to the revival of the “kan ha diskan” style, the traditional call and response singing for dancers. Now one of the most…
Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento Della Ninfa
L’Arpeggiata Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer in the late Renaissance whose innovative compositions led to the birth of opera as a new style of music. In addition to early operas and church music, Monteverdi published nine books of Madrigals, or Renaissance love poems…
Max Richter: Vivaldi recomposed
From a statistical point of view, Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” probably belongs to the top ten most popular pieces of classical music recorded and played (sometimes even overplayed) on classical music radio stations. Not daunted by its overwhelming popularity, modern classical composer Max Richter set to…