Boccherini: Arie Accademiche (Le), Vol. 1

Featuring

Cristina Miatello
Giovanni Guglielmo
Federico Guglielmo
Mario Paladin
Pietro Bosna
Franco Catalini

L`Arte dell`Arco
Ensemble Barocco Sans Souci
Luigi Boccherini
Pietro Metastasio

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Recording & Production

This recording of Luigi Boccherini's "Arie Accademiche" is the result of careful philological research based on the original manuscripts.

Compositional Technique

All of Boccherini's arias on this album use texts by Metastasio, a well-known librettist, allowing audiences to immediately grasp their emotional and dramatic content.

Interpretation

The instrumental ensemble L'Arte dell'Arco and the Ensemble Barocco Padovano Sans Souci perform on period instruments from Boccherini's time.

Compositional Technique

Boccherini's "Academic" or "concert" arias, like those on this album, were specifically composed for musical soirées that featured both instrumental and vocal music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Boccherini deliberately excluded his secular vocal music, most of his sacred music, and even his cello works from his own autograph catalogue.

Composer Biography

Luigi Boccherini, a prominent late 18th-century composer, began his musical career as a boy soprano, singing in churches and public theaters from ages eight to ten.

Composer Biography

Boccherini's first wife, Clementina Pelliccia, was a young Roman soprano whom he met while working as an instrumentalist in an Italian opera company in Spain.