Quartetto Bernini

ARNR 0301

Format: Digipack with 16-page booklet

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With this new edition of "The Art of the Fugue", the last instrumental masterwork of Bach, the Quartetto Bernini is proposing for the first time the filological execution of Bernini's manuscript.
Precious and unique, this recording offers to the listener a new clarity, compared with the existing numerous versions, based on the first edition of print.

"The Art of the Fugue" is infact a complex work, where the inventive counterpoint of Bach is taken to the limit and in this edition Quartetto Bernini offers a particular lecture, next to the instrumental praxis of that epoche, also through the use of a splendid quartet of italian instuments, dated 16th/17th century.

TRACKLISTING:

• Contrapunctus 1 (3:21)

• Contrapunctus 3 (3:19)

• Contrapunctus 2 (2:09)

• Contrapunctus 5 (4:18)

• Contrapunctus 9 alla Duodecima (8:21)

• Contrapunctus 10a alla Decima (4:40)

• Contrapunctus 6 in Stylo Francese (2:59)

• Contrapunctus 7 per Augment et Diminuit (2:40)

• Contrapunctus 15 (Canon in Hypodiapason all'Ottava) (a 2 voci) (2:21)

• Contrapunctus 8 a 3 (4:43)

• Contrapunctus 11 (3:59)

• Canon in Hypodiatesseron al rovescio et per augmentationem perpetuus (14a) (4:59)

• Contrapunctus 12a (rectus) (1:51)

• Contrapunctus 12b (1:54)

• Contrapunctus 13a (rectus) (1:59)

• Contrapunctus 13b (inversus) (2:06)

• Canon al rovescio et per augmentationem (a2) (14) (6:27)

• Fuga a tre soggetti (incompiuta) (7:32)

• Choral (4:17)

Synaulia

ARNR 1396

Format: Overpack+booklet

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The celebrated first recording in the series that presents a hypothetical reconstruction of the music of ancient Imperial Rome using original instruments constructed by musician and musicologist Walter Maioli and his research group.
This first volume, dedicated to flutes and various wind instruments, has been highly acclaimed in the international press. Extensive reportage on, and documentaries about this production have been made by several national television companies in Europe and Japan, as well as by CNN International.

Produced in collaboration with the Museo della Civiltà Romana in Rome and recognized by the academic world for its authenticity, this fascinating project is excellently performed by the ensemble Synaulia, a group of paleorganologists and musicians dedicated to the study of ancient music.

This first volume of "The Music of Ancient Rome" has been an international cultural event, registering significant sales in traditional record retail stores as well as in alternative distribution channels such as bookshops and museum stores. Its music has been feataured in numerous feature films, including "Gladiator" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Volume Two (ARCD 0302-IT, ARCD 1002-ENG), dedicated to string instruments, is available, and Volume Three is planned for 2005 release.

TRACKLISTING:

• Pavor (2:38)

• Anima Vagul (2:34)

• Etruria (2:01)

• Baccus (2:29)

• Magna Mater (2:30)

• Mare nostrum (2:43)

• Imperium (3:34)

• Diana (1:06)

• Arena (1:22)

• Lares (2:09)

• Acutus (1:25)

• Pastorale (1:27)

• Tibiae impares (1:45)

• Pompei (3:11)

• Aetherius (3:14)

• Venus (4:24)

• Isis (3:13)

• Fortuna (1:08)

• Oraculum (2:47)

• Tibia duplex (2:23)

• Tympanum (3:31)

• Ludi inter Pana atque nymphas (1:56)

• Neniae (2:52)

• Juppiter (1:45)

• Salii (1:06)

Synaulia

ARCD 0302/ARCD 1002

Format: Overpack+booklet

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The second volume of the series in which we present a hypothetical reconstruction of the music of Imperial Rome. The recording uses instruments accurately rebuilt by Walter Maioli, musician and paleorganologist, and his research group in collaboration with outstanding archeologists, musicologists, historians, and instrument manufacturers.

The first volume, dedicated to flutes and wind instruments, has been selected to be part of two prestigious soundtracks: "Gladiator" (Dream Works) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Fox Searchlights Pictures) and has received extensive international press acclaim. Extensive reportage and documentaries about the creation process of this production have been made by European and Japanese television companies, and CNN has produced a cultural report on this fascinating project.

The second volume enriches the series with compositions for string instruments: lyre, cithara, pandura, sambuca. Produced in collaboration with the Museo della Civiltà Romanaof Rome, this unique recording is skillfully performed by the group SYNAULIA, a recognized authority in this field with special guest the noted actor Giorgio Albertazzi.

TRACKLISTING:

• Invocation to Mercury (1:05)

• Ludus (5:10)

• Ode to the Lyre (02:35 + 01:50)

• The villa of mysteries (2:52)

• Synphoniaci(5:50)

• Orpheus (1:54)

• Lyra and cithara (2:30)

• Erato (1:30)

• Sambuca Silences (2:40)

• Sacred step (2:23)

• Syriac Dance (3:11)

• Pandura (3:08)

• Cithara and Sambuca (4:02)

• Tiasus (3:33)

• Pheobus (11:20)

• Cordae Obliquae (1:33)

Paul Badura-Skoda

ARNR 1298

Format: 2CD Digipack with 24-page booklet

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In the Mirror of Time, sheds new light on a masterpiece of European classical music, Franz Schubert's quintet, The Trout.

The art of interpretation in the mirror of time: the great Viennese pianist Paul Badura Skoda offers us two interpretations of the same piece, played 39 years apart.
The first is taken from a historical recording made in 1958, and the second was recorded in Vienna in 1997.
It is remarkable to hear how the early interpretation of the young pianist is intimately tied to the one recorded 39 years later.

A unique and unparalleled disc for collectors.
A 2-disc set.

TRACKLISTING:

• Forellenquintett-The Trout-Quintet in A major for the piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, D667, op.post.114. Recorded in 1997

• Allegro vivace (12:49)

• Andante (6:23)

• Scherzo presto (4:01)

• Andantino (7:21)

• Allegro giusto (6:42)

• Adagio e Rondò concertante in F major for piano, violin, viola, cello (And double bass ad. Lib.), D487. Recorded 1997 (13:24)

• Forellenquintett-The Trout-Quintet in A major for the piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, D667, op.post.114. Recorded in 1950

• Allegro vivace (12:50)

• Andante (6:28)

• Scherzo presto (4:10)

• Andantino (7:53)

• Allegro giusto (6:32)

• Adagio e Rondò concertante in F major for piano, violin, viola, cello (And double bass ad. Lib.), D487. Recorded 1965 (13:35)