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Un'alma innamorata
A soul in love
Linda Perillo (Soprano)
with
Cordaria
directed by Walter Reiter
As featured on the cover
of Classic FM magazine, March 2003
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Read what the reviewers said about earlier Cordaria discs:
“The playing is expert…Walter Reiter proves himself a dynamic yet
sensitive soloist” International
Record Review, March 2001 |
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“Reiter is thoughtful, reflective and poetic…his performances are
stylish, idiomatic and vivid” BBC
Music Magazine, February 2002 |
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“Praise cannot be too high for Cordaria…”
Ludwigvanweb May 2002 |
The emergence of the basso continuo (or “figured bass”) was one of the
critical moments in this history of music. Figured bass, upon which a
keyboard player or lutenist could improvise harmony, meant that a single
musician could provide the necessary harmonies which would previously have
needed several players. In the early part of the seventeenth century,
large numbers of extremely virtuosic solo motets and sonatas started to
appear. The combination of solo voice with one instrument and continuo was
quite common, and pieces with violin were the most common of all.
This new collection from Cordaria features cantatas for soprano, violin
and basso continuo, written by composers including Samuel Capricornus,
Dietrich Buxtehude, Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Phillipp Telemann and Georg
Frederic Handel. |
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