Caldara/ Schiavo/ Stavanger Sym Orch/ Biondi - Morte E Sepoltura Di ChristoWith Antonio Caldara's Morte e sepoltura di Christo,released on Glossa just after a new album devotedto Vivaldi's late violin concertos, Fabio Biondireturns to the Italian oratorio, another of hisspecialities. The Venetians Caldara and Vivaldi mayhave been contemporaries but their career pathsled them in different directions, and Caldara wasto spend much time working in Mantua and Romebefore securing the position of vice Kapellmeisterfor the Holy

he was named concertmaster of the Cologne WDR Orchestra where he was the soloist in the German premiere of Walton's Violin Concerto

The music is divided on the album into secular music (cantatas and canzonetta written

" He is joined on this album by Arbee Stidham (vocals and guitar) and Memphis Slim (organ and piano)

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and Tugan Sokhiev and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

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Connolly has a wide-ranging repertoire which has included works by Wagner as well as various 20th-century composers

just one of the many virtuosic violin concertos from the great Baroque master's hand

The motets of Gottfried August Homilius are among the most demanding and interesting works for choir

after about four hundred years