Tag: Vivaldi

• Mulo Francel and Nicole Heartseeker: Forever Young

  To call this easy on the ear would be like calling monsoons slightly damp or space slightly big: it’s really easy to listen to. The gist of is it that “globetrotting saxophonist” (cf the Press notes) Mulo Francel, part of jazz-world group Quadro Nuevo, has teamed up with classically-trained pianist Nicole Heartseeker to “cast a […]

  jerobear

  March 16, 2021

  Jazz

  Bach, baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, Classical, early, Fine Music, FM 313-2., Forever Young, funk, good new music, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Mulo Francel and Nicole Heartseeker, Piazzolla, pop, Reggae, reviews, rock, Schumann, soul, support music, Vivaldi

• Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol 4, In Turbato Mare Irato

    Another CD in the “nice for Christmas without being Christmassy” vein, and you can impress your friends with your erudition, saying: “Ah, yes, Vivaldi, seen as a one-hit wonder because of his big album Four Seasons but actually a prolific composer across a variety of genres”. The cover’s got Latin on, too. Antonio Vivaldi […]

  jerobear

  December 13, 2015

  Classical, Uncategorized

  8.573324, Aradia Ensemble, Claire de Sévigné, Four Seasons, In Turbato Mare Irato, Maria Soulis, mezzo-soprano, Naxos, Ospedale della Pietà, Sacred Music, soprano, Vestro Principi Divino, Vivaldi, Vol 4

• Ruby Hughes, Komalé Akakpo, Martin Gester: Venetian Christmas

  Note the title: this is how they celebrated Christmas in Venice, not how we do now. We’d guess there wasn’t carol singing and reflecting on the shallowness of collecting material goods during one’s brief sojourn on Earth. Nope, it would be lavish: draw the Venetian blinds down over the Venetian windows, don the fancy masks […]

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  November 27, 2014

  Classical, Uncategorized

  album review, Alsager Chronicle, Arte dei Suonatori, baroque, Biddulph Chronicle, Carnevale, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, eletronica, folk, Hasse, jazz, Jeremy Condliffe, Komalé Akakpo, Manchester Camerata, Martin Gester, Metal, music, new music, Perotti, pop, Review Corner, rock, Ruby Hughes, Sandbach Chronicle, Venetian Christmas, Vivaldi