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Female Writing for Guitar

Sonata in modo antiquo: III. Rondeau - Allegro giocoso

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125, Choral (arr. R. Wagne

Giacomo Puccini - O Soave Fanciulla, from La Bohème(O gentle maiden) (1896)
Libretto by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
Jayana Paiva - Soprano
Daniel Umbelino - Tenor
Piano - André dos Santos
Live recording - Theatro São Pedro - São Paulo - Brazil - August 11 2017
Illustration - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Giacomo Puccini - O Soave Fanciulla, La Bohème - Paiva - Umbelino - Dos Santos - São Paulo - 2017

Kneeling Before Giants

Air from Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Johann Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue for Three Violins and Continuo (lofi version)

Antonio Vivaldi - Piccolo Concerto in C major, RV 444 - I. Allegro non

Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek will return to the Royal Opera House to sing the role of Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. It's a return she's extremely excited for:

'I think Cavalleria rusticana is one of the most wonderful operas ever written. It's so passionate, real and exciting', she says. 'It has you on the edge of your seat.'

'Santuzza is a woman who's been betrayed by a lover. She then betrays him and it goes horribly wrong. To sing these big duets is just amazing. It's very dramatic.'

2015 is Cavalleria rusticana-filled for Eva-Maria as in the spring she warmed up for her London performances of the opera with a run of a different production in New York:

'I'm really excited to sing Santuzza at the Metropolitan Opera and at Covent Garden. It's really interesting to reinvent yourself with Santuzza in each production. I feel extremely lucky.'

Eva-Maria's last Royal Opera House performances were as Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier — like Cavalleria rusticana, a verismo opera:

'Verismo is my favourite style of opera. I love it so much because it demands a lot of emotion, trying to stay true and giving a lot of yourself. It's less controlled in a way — I can go wild, which I love!'

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Eva-Maria Westbroek on Cavalleria rusticana

V020-Antonio Vivaldi –  Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, Alla Rustica I.Presto

V021-Antonio Vivaldi –  Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, Alla Rustica III. Allegro

E023-Ludwig van Beethoven – Romance For Violin And Orchesrta No. 1 In G Op. 40

The 18th-century artists, such as Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, wearing servant uniforms for the most part of this century, towards its end made efforts to emancipate themselves as artists (Beethoven was largely an embodiment of such emancipation). In the following century this trend led to another extreme – the universal cult of the artist as envoy of the gods.
	The Enlightened Virtuoso is an attempt to show the artist-performer beginning to get independent in the second half of the 18th century by breaking up with the stereotype of a musician as a servant and heading towards artistic independence, in this case of the violin virtuoso soloist.
	The presented repertoire is a cross-section of styles in the Enlightenment Europe. On the one hand, one can still discern the reminiscences of the artful and ornate Baroque style and Sturm und Drang or Empfindsamer Stil inspirations, and on the other one can observe the influence of the Classical style and the first glimmers of the upcoming Romanticism. The composers are the great violinists active across Europe – Ivan Khandoshkin worked in Sankt Petersburg, Johan Helmich Roman in Stockholm, Friedrich Wilhelm Rust in Germany, Federigo Fiorillo, and Niccolo Paganini in Italy. Thus we get a full range of music in the second half of the 18th century, with all its richness and diversity.
	The recording was made by Zbigniew Pilch on a historical instrument with gut strings. The bow used is a copy of a bow from the turn of the 18th century. The interpretation of pieces is largely based on historical records concerning performance principles, including the use of articulation and fingering, adequate for performance practice in the second half of the 18th century.

ACD 232 - Track 15 - George Frideric Handel - Lascia Ch’io Pianga From Rinaldo HWV 7

Big Baroque Box, Vol II

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049: i. Allegro

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Antonio Vivaldi - Piccolo Concerto in C major, RV 444 - I. Allegro non

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