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Iskrena Yordanova and Zefira Valova – Tartini’s Letter: Violin Duos Op. 4 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:57 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pan Classics
This recording presents an unedited early classical repertoire by the Venetian composer and violinist Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1760). As an outstanding pupil at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice, she was allowed to study with Giuseppe Tartini in Padua, who wrote her a long letter in which he explained his methods of violin playing and practising. This letter was copied in Padua even before it was sent and printed in Italy around 1770, followed by translations into English, German and French.
Lombardini Sirmen was an extraordinary artist of the Enlightenment who achieved great popularity through her European tours as a violinist and through her compositions. Her music was widely published and reprinted by various publishers in Paris, the Netherlands, Germany and London. Her duets for two violins Opus 5 (Paris 1773) are a perfect example of the virtuosity that combines delicate and extravagant chamber music sonorities of the classical period.
The performers are violinists Zefira Valova and Iskrena Yordanova, concertmasters of the two leading European baroque orchestras Il Pomo d’Oro and Divino Sospiro.
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Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko, Zefira Valova – Telemann: Ouverture & Concerti pour Darmstadt (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:04 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Alexis Kossenko returns to centre stage with a project focussing on works by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prolific composers in the history of music, with more than 6,000 works to his name! From them, Alexis Kossenko has chosen two concertos with orchestra: one for flute, the other for flute and violin, preceded by an overture.
This programme is perfectly composed to demonstrate what a great Baroque conductor he has become as well as, of course, showcasing his impressive qualities as a flautist. It is also the occasion to again find Zefira Valova as Konzermeister and soloist in one of the concertos.
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Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo d’Oro, Zefira Valova – Handel Arias (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:50 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This album isn’t just for fans of the counter-tenor’s voice – Franco Fagiolo being one of the stars in the market – but also for lovers of the airs from Handel’s operas, and any serious baroque orchestra enthusiast, the orchestra here being Il Pomo d’Oro. When you unite all these elements together in a recording, the result is spectacular. This record includes the thrills of big hits like “Ombra mai fu” from Serse or “Cara sposa” from Rinaldo, as well as a number of no-less-interesting rarities, which have the advantage of shining a light on the lesser played works of the caro Sassone. After all,Ariodante, Partenope, Imeneo and Oreste (the album covers the composer’s entire period of lyrical creativity) all have some great moments, and completely original airs, often loaded with the instrumental surprises that Handel arranged so well. And so, fans, if all three of the big elements are there – or if you are just curious to hear a very well made record – get stuck in!
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Zefira Valova & Aapo Häkkinen – Schubert: 4 Sonatas for Violin & Piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:25 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Brilliant Classics
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Franz Schubert
Sparkling new accounts of Schubert’s violin-and-piano music from two luminaries of the Finnish period-instrument scene.
The Bulgarian violinist Zefira Valova graduated from the National Music Academy of her native Sofia, Bulgaria, before specialising in Baroque violin studies with Lucy van Dael. While still based in her homeland, having founded Bulgaria’s only annual early-music festival (Sofia Baroque Arts Festival) she is a frequent soloist with and guest leader of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra under its founder-director Aapo H”akkinen, who swaps the conductor’s platform on this occasion for a seat at a gentle, plangent-sounding fortepiano from 1820 of Viennese manufacture – ideally suited to the repertoire at hand.
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Zefira Valova, Il Pomo D’oro – Benda, Graun, Saint-Georges, Sirmen: Violin Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:35 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
il pomo d’oro and Zefira Valova focus here on the little-known violin concertos of the second half of the eighteenth century. Bringing together the works of Franz Benda and his elder Johann Gottlieb Graun (in a world premiere recording), pillars of the orchestra at the court of Frederick II of Prussia, as well as those of the Venetian virtuoso Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen and the iconoclastic Georges Bologne de Saint-Georges (also in a world premiere recording), this recording offers a bright panorama of the evolution of the genre, culminating in Mozart’s achievements in the last quarter of the century, of which il pomo d’oro and Zefira Valova offer us a glimpse with the famous Rondo in C major, K. 373.
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Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko, Zefira Valova – Telemann: Ouverture & Concerti pour Darmstadt (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:04 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha
Alexis Kossenko returns to centre stage with a project focussing on works by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prolific composers in the history of music, with more than 6,000 works to his name! From them, Alexis Kossenko has chosen two concertos with orchestra: one for flute, the other for flute and violin, preceded by an overture. This programme is perfectly composed to demonstrate what a great Baroque conductor he has become as well as, of course, showcasing his impressive qualities as a flautist. It is also the occasion to again find Zefira Valova as Konzertmeister and soloist in one of the concertos.
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