Auser Musici
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Auser Musici is a period instrument ensemble centered in Pisa
that specializes in early music
repertory from the Tuscan
region of Italy
.
Carlo Ipata and has performed throughout the continent of Europe
, especially in Italy, as well as in the United States
. Its concerts feature vocal and instrumental works composed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, frequently including selections from the series Tesori Musicali Toscani, a collection of early music published in Pisa. The home concert venue of Auser Musici is located in the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi of Pisa. The ensemble is named for an ancient river of the Pisan region.
Auser Musici has released recordings continuously since the year 1998, presently under exclusive contract with Hyperion Records
. In 2010, its recording of flute
concerto
s by Neapolitan
composers was singled out by the International Record Review
as an Editor’s Choice.
The principal singers who perform regularly with Auser Musici are the soprano
s Maria Grazia Schiavo
and Elena Cecchi Fedi and the baritone
Furio Zanasi. The organization is administered under the direction of Piero Torrigiani and Pierpaolo Corradini.
Auser Musici maintains a reciprocal relationship with Musica Toscana
of Louisville, Kentucky
, another organization devoted to the promotion of music from the Tuscan region of Italy.
Historically informed performance
Baroque music
List of early music ensembles
Pisa
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
that specializes in early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
repertory from the Tuscan
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
region of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
History, Mission, and Activities
The ensemble was founded in 1997 by the flautistFlautist
A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...
Carlo Ipata and has performed throughout the continent of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, especially in Italy, as well as in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Its concerts feature vocal and instrumental works composed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, frequently including selections from the series Tesori Musicali Toscani, a collection of early music published in Pisa. The home concert venue of Auser Musici is located in the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi of Pisa. The ensemble is named for an ancient river of the Pisan region.
Auser Musici has released recordings continuously since the year 1998, presently under exclusive contract with Hyperion Records
Hyperion Records
Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label.-History:The company was named after Hyperion, one of the Titans of Greek mythology. It was founded by George Edward Perry, widely known as "Ted", in 1980. Early LP releases included rarely recorded 20th century British music by...
. In 2010, its recording of flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
concerto
Concerto
A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...
s by Neapolitan
Neapolitan School
In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 18th century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy. The best known of which is Alessandro Scarlatti, with whom, "modern opera begins"....
composers was singled out by the International Record Review
International Record Review
International Record Review is an independent British monthly classical music magazine.Established in March 2000, it reviews classical music CDs, DVDs and books. CD reviews are divided into orchestral, chamber, instrumental, choral, vocal and opera, with DVD reviews, invariably of opera,...
as an Editor’s Choice.
The principal singers who perform regularly with Auser Musici are the soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
s Maria Grazia Schiavo
Maria Grazia Schiavo
Maria Grazia Schiavo is an Italian classical soprano who is particularly known for her performances of music from the baroque period. She has performed with major opera houses in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and has appeared in concerts throughout Europe.-Life and career:Born in...
and Elena Cecchi Fedi and the baritone
Baritone
Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
Furio Zanasi. The organization is administered under the direction of Piero Torrigiani and Pierpaolo Corradini.
Auser Musici maintains a reciprocal relationship with Musica Toscana
Musica Toscana
Musica Toscana, Inc., is a nonprofit cultural, educational, and musicological organization located in Louisville, Kentucky, that promotes the musical heritage of the Tuscan region of Italy. It was founded in 1999 under the leadership of the musicologist Robert L. Weaver, a retired faculty member...
of Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
, another organization devoted to the promotion of music from the Tuscan region of Italy.
Recordings
- Francesco BarsantiFrancesco BarsantiFrancesco Barsanti was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in the Tuscan city of Lucca but spent most of his career in London.- Biography :...
: Sei sonate Op. 2 per flauto traverso, Agorà AG 157.1 (1998) - Antonio BrunelliAntonio BrunelliAntonio Brunelli was an Italian composer and theorist of the early Baroque period.He was a student of Giovanni Maria Nanino and served as the organist at San Miniato in Tuscany from 1604 to 1607, then moved to Prato where he served as maestro di capella at the Cathedral there...
: Fioretti Spirituali, Agorà AG 187.1 (1999) - Pietro NardiniPietro NardiniPietro Nardini was an Italian composer and violinist.-Life:He was born in Fibiana and studied music at Livorno, later becoming a pupil of Giuseppe Tartini. Having been a student of Giuseppe Tartini, he moved to Germany where he joined the court chapel in Stuttgart where he became conductor in 1762...
: Overtures and Flute Concertos, Agorà Musica AG 157.1 (2002) - Francesco Barsanti: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (nos. 1, 4, 6, 7, 10), Tactus Records TC.690201 (2003)
- Cristiano Giuseppe LidartiCristiano Giuseppe LidartiCristiano Giuseppe Lidarti was an Austrian composer, born in Vienna of Italian descent. Lidarti is best known for his rediscovered oratorio Esther composed in Hebrew for the Jewish community in Amsterdam. The text may have been prepared for Lidarti by the Jewish composer Abraham...
: Musica da camera e concerto per clavicembalo, Tactus Records TC.733701 (2003) - Francesco GeminianiFrancesco Geminianithumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:...
: Concerti grossi, Op. 2, Symphonia SY 02200 (2003) - Francesco GaspariniFrancesco GaspariniFrancesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in Germany and England....
: Dori & Daliso – Mirena & Floro, Symphonia SY 03207 (2004) - Antonio Brunelli: Arie, scherzi, canzonette & madrigali per suonare & cantare, Symphonia SY 04209 (2005)
- Luigi BoccheriniLuigi BoccheriniLuigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
: Flute Quintets, Op. 19, Hyperion CDA67646 (2008) - Christian Joseph Lidarti: Violin Concertos, Hyperion CDA67685 (2008)
- Nicola PorporaNicola PorporaNicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...
: ”Or sì m’aveggio, oh amore”: Cantatas for Soprano, Hyperion CDA67621 (2008) - Antonio CestiAntonio CestiAntonio Cesti , known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer , and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".- Biography :...
: Le disgrazie d’amore, Hyperion CDA67771 (2010) - Neapolitan Flute Concertos [by Antonio PalellaAntonio PalellaAntonio Palella was an Italian composer and harpsichordist.-Recording:*1 concerto in Neapolitan Flute Concertos, Auser Musici, Carlo Ipata, director, Hyperion CDA67784...
, Genaro Rava, Giuseppe de MajoGiuseppe de MajoGiuseppe de Majo was an Italian composer and organist. He was the father of the composer Gian Francesco de Majo. His compositional output consists of 10 operas, an oratorio, a concerto for 2 violins, and a considerable amount of sacred music.-Life and career:Born in Naples, Majo spent most of his...
, Nicolò Jommelli, and Tommaso Prota], Hyperion CDA67784 (2010)
See Also
FluteFlute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance is an approach in the performance of music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived...
Baroque music
Baroque music
Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
List of early music ensembles
External Links
- http://www.ausermusici.org/ Official website
- http://www.tesorimusicalitoscani.org
- http://www.youtube.com/ausermusici
- http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auser_musici