Artemandoline

Artemandoline – Italian Baroque Mandolin Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:18 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
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The works that are featured on the present recording were all written during an extremely fertile period in the history of the mandolin. Complex and varied, the Baroque age set out to explore new means of expression and, first and foremost, novel timbres. The inventive inquisitiveness of Baroque musicians took them in the direction of the subtlest of sonorities, and no sound was more subtle than that of the mandolin. This was a time when aesthetic concerns were dominated by research into tone colour and into achieving greater and greater refinement.

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Artemandoline – Concerti Napoletani per Mandolino (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:27 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Classical
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Music has always been omnipresent in Naples. In the city’s opera houses, theatres and conservatories, it has found expression in a multitude of styles and genres, while also playing an important role in Naples’s innumerable salons and in the palazzi where the local clergy foregathered with music-loving patrons and other champions of the arts. Vocal and instrumental music was integral to most of the ceremonies and events in public life in every social stratum. Moreover, the outstanding reputation of the city’s conservatories, most of which had been established as orphanages in the 16th century, attracted only the most gifted students, laying the foundations for Naples’s exceptional reputation at this time.

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