Release Date: 04 November 2022
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: EcoPak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599925851
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Castrapolis
Description
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Naples’ fame as a musical centre attracted travellers, composers, instrumentalists and virtuoso singers alike. Among the aspiring musicians, the most highly-trained and sought-after were the castrati, promising boys aged between 8 and 12 who were subjected to an operation intended to preserve the exceptionally pure timbre of their treble voice. Forever virginal beings whose superhuman voices mesmerized their listeners they were nicknamed angiolilli, ‘little angels’, and sang in the most important churches and theatres of ‘Castrapolis’, a term coined to describe the southern capital and its high concentration of castrato sopranos.
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
JORGEN VAN RIJEN; ALMA QUARTET
JONATHAN VON SCHWANENFLÜGEL; SIGNE SNEH DURHOLM; ELENOR WIMAN; JAKOB BLOCH JESPERSEN; PER BACH NISS
FRANCESCO D'ORAZIO, FRANCESCO ABBRESCIA, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, LEE REYNOLDS
ELENA PAPANDREOU
