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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,99 Gb | Total time: 184:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 30413 | Recorded: 2005

Most of Vivaldi's operas were composed for Venice, but between 1718 and 1720, he was in the employ the Austrian governor of Mantua, and he composed Tito Manlio for the governor's wedding celebration. The wedding never took place, but the opera was performed in 1719. The Mantuan court was very wealthy, and this is clear from the lavish scoring of Manlio: in addition to the usual strings, Vivaldi uses horns, trumpets, oboes, bassoon, two different registers of flutes, timpani and viola d'amore.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 78-81 (2016)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 78-81 (2016)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 78-81 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 493 Gb | Total time: 104:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 4788837 | Recorded: 2015

Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone are releasing a new album of Haydn Symphonies, Nos. 78-81. It is the first time Symphonies No.79 and 81 have been recorded on period instruments. This little-known quartet of Haydn symphonies 78-81 date from the years 1782-1784 when Haydn still served as kapellmeister to the Esterhazy family in their spectacular summer and winter palaces in Esterháza (present day Hungary) and Eisenstadt (Austria) where the music was first performed. These four symphonies have been specially recorded for the upcoming 36-CD set of Complete Haydn Symphonies, to be released later this year. It will be the first Haydn symphony cycle on period instruments.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione Op. VIII (2001)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione Op. VIII (2001)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione Op. VIII (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 512 Mb | Total time: 57:00+55:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Amadeus | # AM 136-2 | Recorded: 1999

Second only to J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi is perhaps the most well-known and widely enjoyed composer of the Baroque era. Here, the world-renowned Accademia Bizantina plays Vivaldi's 12 Concertos, which include his most famous work, 'The Four Seasons.' Conducted by the passionate maestro Ottavio Dantone–who also joins on harpsichord–these pieces sounds rich and dramatic.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria; Livietta e Tracollo (2011)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria; Livietta e Tracollo (2011)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria; Livietta e Tracollo (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 190 min | 6,30+5,97 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano | Recorded: 2010

For the festivities marking the Pergolesi’s tercentenary in his native Jesi, Ignacio García created a new staging of the imperial drama Adriano in Siria. His staging in Jesi’s exquisite 18th-century Teatro Comunale Pergolesi includes the delightful comic intermezzo Livietta e Tracollo, thus following the precedent set at the premiere in 1734. A fine Italian cast and the distinguished Accademia Bizantina are led by the Accademia’s director, Ottavio Dantone.

Sandrine Piau, Stefano Montanari, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Between Heaven & Earth (2009)

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Sandrine Piau, Stefano Montanari, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Between Heaven & Earth (2009)

Sandrine Piau, Stefano Montanari, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Between Heaven & Earth (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 390 Mb | Total time: 76:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30484 | Recorded: 2008

French soprano Sandrine Piau, despite her frequent appearances on Baroque recordings, may not seem a first choice for the sheer athleticism of Handel, but wait until you hear her. Piau substitutes grace, precision, and sheer beauty for brawn, and the results are astonishing. She chooses arias ideally suited to her talents. "Rejoice greatly," from Messiah, is full of spiky flash, and lengthy pieces like "Prophetic raptures swell my breast" (track 12), from Joseph and His Brethren, are beautifully developed, with Piau sliding with impossible smoothness into high notes in the later stages. Passagework in faster pieces is a shower of bright sparks, while in "Sweet bird," from L'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato (track 16), you will become deliciously disoriented after a while as to whether it is Piau or one of the instruments providing the bird effects.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (2009)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (2009)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 367 Mb | Total time: 77:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 4781465 | Recorded: 2008

“For intimacy and brio, there’s Ottavio Dantone and the five musicians of Accademia Bizantina… Poised in the Siciliano of the E major concerto, merry in the Allegro of the A major, strikingly confident in the whirlwind Presto of the F minor and dazzling in the Italianate Adagio of the D minor, the ensemble is faultless” The Independent on Bach Harpsichord Concertos. This is the second disc in the new L’Oiseau Lyre partnership with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone; it promises to be a stunning contribution to commemorate the Handel celebrations in 2009.

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone & Alessandro Tampieri - Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone & Alessandro Tampieri - Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone & Alessandro Tampieri - Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 287 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:39
Classical | Label: HDB Sonus

First of all, we can see that the form of the “Concerto Grosso” is almost absent in this collection, with a succession of movements more often reminiscent of the Dance Suite, the Overture or even the Concerto for several instruments. The featured soloists range from Violins, Cellos, Oboes, Bassoons, Flutes and even the Organ. But what most disconcerts and bewilders the scholar is the compositional technique.

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (2022)

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (2022)

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Handel: Serse, HWV 40 (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 709 MB | Cover | 02:11:40 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 331 MB
Classical | Label: Hdb Sonus

Célèbre par son air « Ombra mai fù », dit « Largo d’Haendel », Serse (ou Xerxès) est un des opéras les plus originaux et les plus variés du compositeur allemand. C’est une de ses rares œuvres « comiques » qui contient de nombreuses facéties, de l’humour, mais qui est aussi teinté d’une certaine gravité.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl, Helene Guilmette - Handel: Il duello amoroso (2007)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl, Helene Guilmette - Handel: Il duello amoroso (2007)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl, Hélène Guilmette - Handel: Il duello amoroso (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 72:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901957 | Recorded: 2005

Harmonia Mundi's release features four secular cantatas and a trio sonata Handel wrote during his sojourn in Italy during his early twenties. The cantatas range from the mini-opera Il duello amoroso or Amarilli vezzosa, which depicts a shepherd's vain courting of a resisting nymph, to solo works in which a narrator describes similar pastoral stories, most of which also end in rejection. In Il duello amoroso, soprano Hélène Guilmette joins countertenor Andreas Scholl, and their charming banter leaves the listener saddened that the shepherd's suit was so dismally unsuccessful.

Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arcadia: Scarlatti, Marcello, Gasparini, Pasquini (2003)

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Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arcadia: Scarlatti, Marcello, Gasparini, Pasquini (2003)

Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arcadia: Scarlatti, Marcello, Gasparini, Pasquini (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 363 Mb | Total time: 78:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 470 296-02 | Recorded: 2003

Countertenor Andreas Scholl's new CD is devoted to little-known, late-17th- and early-18th-century cantatas whose subject matter is Arcadia, a real region in Greece, but more frequently evoked as an idyllic place filled with innocent, simple shepherds and shepherdesses. Scholl employs a more operatic tone and attitude than we're accustomed to from countertenors. Not only does he use vibrato and "lean" on the voice, but he dips down, as in the final moments of a cantata by Marcello, into a deep, dark baritone range. The effect is dramatic and apt. Elsewhere his tone is just gorgeous and always expressive, he pays attention to the text of these works and captures the theatrical moment in each. The last movement of a work by Francesco Gasparini is excitingly acrobatic.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario (2014)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario (2014)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: L'incoronazione di Dario (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 769 Mb | Total time: 64:34+68:57+43:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30553 | Recorded: 2013

'L’incoronazione di Dario' must be considered one of Vivaldi’s most successful operas. Immediately opening with exceptional arias, it moves at a rapid pace, holding the listener’s attention throughout. Recitatives are interspersed with arioso interludes and there no less than eight 'big' numbers sure to join the ranks of 'Vivaldi’s best opera arias'. The excellent cast acts out this drama with conviction: Anders Dahlin’s sings Dario, with impeccable intonation and stunning coloratura passages; Sara Mingardo, as Statira, brings great depth and beauty, most especially in her Act 2 solo Cantata accompanied only by viola da gamba.

Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos (2013)

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Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos (2013)

Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 60:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx | # ONYX 4114 | Recorded: 2012

Viktoria Mullova renews her partnership with long-term collaborator Ottavio Dantone in a programme of concertos for violin, offering not only the two famous concertos, but two concertos arranged for violin from the 2nd harpsichord concerto, and a concerto for violin and harpsichord which listeners may recognise from its violin and oboe guise – even this was arranged by Bach himself from the original for two harpsichords. Bach himself was a great re-user of material, and many concerto movements (including some from lost concertos) appeared in his cantatas. Mullova and Dantone have worked together for many years, both recording and in concert.

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) (2020)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) (2020)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Vivaldi: Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 752 Mb | Total time: 57:45+49:31+48:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 7080 | Recorded: 2020

Thanks to this tenth recording by Accademia Bizantina in the central core of the Vivaldi Edition, Il Tamerlano can now take its justly earned place in the Vivaldi catalogue, helping to renew the name and reputation of Timur, the Tartar emperor whose memory was later overshadowed by the Ottoman sultan. Vivaldi's opera was first performed during the Venice Carnival of 1735, and resurrected in 2005 under the title Bajazet. Here, under the musical direction of Ottavio Dantone, we have a sextet of dramatically engaged virtuoso soloists, and an orchestra that is perfectly aware of Vivaldi's musical dialectic. All the soloists are superbly well equipped to deal with the Red Priest's acrobatic and inventive writing here seen in the context of several of his contemporaries.

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Cesti: La Dori (2020)

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Cesti: La Dori (2020)

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone - Cesti: La Dori (2020)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 02:40:43 | 371 Mb
Classical, Opera | Label: CPO

In 2019 the music world commemorated the 350th anniversary of the death of MarcAntonio Cesti, the greatest composer of opera comedies and the most gifted melodist of the seventeenth century. Since Cesti lived and worked in Innsbruck for many years, La Dori, his brilliant comedy of disguises and hidden identities, was the perfect choice for posthumous honors »on location.« Ottavio Dantone, who is active from the Milan Scala to the Salzburg Festival with his specialists support in the field of Baroque and Classical opera, conducted his exquisite original sound ensemble, the Accademia Bizantina on the Innsbruck opera stage and set in motion the Dori renaissance. This comedy of loves errors set by the banks of the Euphrates and at the court of Babylon is now available for audio enjoyment on cpo.

Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arias for Senesino: Handel, Albinoni, Lotti, A.Scarlatti, Porpora (2005)

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Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arias for Senesino: Handel, Albinoni, Lotti, A.Scarlatti, Porpora (2005)

Andreas Scholl, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Arias for Senesino: Handel, Albinoni, Lotti, A.Scarlatti, Porpora (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 65:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 475 6569 | Recorded: 2004

Senesino, the voice that inspired Handel's greatest operas showpiece arias by Handel, Lotti, Albinoni, Porpora and Scarlatti. One of the truly outstanding voices of today, star countertenor Andreas Scholl celebrates one of the 18th Century's greatest vocal superstars, the remarkable male alto known as Senesino. Senesino's place in history was secured by his extraordinary association with Handel, who after travelling to Dresden to hear him, brought him to London to join his Italian Opera Company, where he was greatly celebrated by the public, and much admired by the ladies.