Lina Tur Bonet / Aurelia Visovan BEETHOVEN Sonata Lunatica

 

SONATA LUNATICA

 

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica LA BELLEZZA

LA BELLEZZA

Lina Tur Bonet / Dani Espasa BACH - HANDEL An Imaginary Meeting

                                                         AN IMAGINARY MEETING

Xavier Sabata / Vespres d'Arnadí / Dani Espasa L'ALESSANDRO AMANTE

The irresistible and warm voice of counter-tenor Xavier Sabata never ends to bewitch us in his new medley of jubilant baroque arias. Alexander The Great inspired him the theme his new album: Porpora, Händel, Bononcini and many other composers were seduced by this character who mingled the strength of the Emperor and the sensibility of a man.

Xavier Sabata focuses on that multifaceted feeling that keeps nourishing music, especially baroque opera. With the Spanish conductor Dani Espasa and his ensemble Vespres d’Arnadí, the singer performs a tailor-made programme: the new exciting chapter of a unique voice and a fascinating artist.

Lina Tur Bonet / Patxi Montero / Kenneth Weiss ELISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE Violin Sonatas

After the success of her recordings with music by Vivaldi, Biber, and Corelli, Lina Tur Bonet focuses for this new release on the French female composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, a protegee of Louis XIV. The six Sonates pour le viollon et pour le clavecin by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, dedicated to Louis XIV, appeared in Paris in 1707, the year when the models and the most recent invenzioni of the Italian sonata arrived in France, immediately captivating composers such as Louis-Antoine Dornel, Michel Blavet, Francois Couperin and Jean-Marie Leclair l’aine. Although the collection was printed in 1707, it appears that as early as 1695 Elisabeth had sent a copy of at least two sonatas to her friend Sebastien de Brossard, theoretician and composer fascinated by the Italian repertoire, a factor which had made it possible to bring forward significantly the date of composition in the anthology, making this one of the first French examples of sonatas for violin and basso continuo.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica ANTONIO VIVALDI Il Grosso Mogul

Regarded as "one of the most exciting violinists of her generation", the versatile violinist Lina Tur Bonet has worked together with a large number of the most remarkable performers of either Baroque, Romantic or Contemporary music since her youth.

Her CDs by Pan Classics (Jacquet de la Guerre Sonatas, Biber Rosenkranz Sonatas, Corelli op,V and Vivaldi Premieres) have been awarded twice with 5 Diapasons, four times “Excepcional” by Scherzo, "R" Recomendado by Ritmo, “Melómano de Oro” and Tipp from Tocatta.

The CD "Mystery Sonatas" of Biber were regarded also as 5* by BBC Music Magazine, nominated for the International Classic Music Awards (ICMA) as 2015 best recording of Baroque Music, to be finally awarded the GEMA prize for 2015 best CD and also appointed best release of the year by “El Cultural” of “El Mundo” and "Referential Recording" by Gramophone.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica BIBER Mystery Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas (or Mystery Sonatas) c. 1678 are unlike anything else in the violin literature, with scordatura, or unconventional instrument tuning, exhaustively explored in the fifteen-piece cycle, each sonata utilizing a different tuning. Each sonata represents one of the Catholic Rosary Mysteries. As the music reaches its spiritual climax in the "Resurrection" sonata, Biber specifies the violin be played with its two central strings crossed. Accompanying Lina Tur Bonet, an exciting younger generation violinist, is her ensemble Musica Alchemica.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica LA GIOIA

All six of Corelli's published collections of instrumental music demonstrate his exceptional skill as a violinist and composer, but it was in his Violin Sonatas Op. 5 that Corelli had the most significant impact on violin technique. The Op. 5 collection consists of 11 sonatas and a 12th sonata with a series of 23 variations on the famous 'Follia' theme. All 12 pieces contain a variety of difficult violin techniques.

Lina Tur Bonet is one of the most exciting violinists of the younger generation. She is accompanied by her ensemble Musica Alchemica. Her recent recordings for Pan classics - Vivaldi Premieres and the Rosary Sonatas by Biber – received many awards as 5* BBC Music Magazine, 5* Diapason, "CD-Tipp" (Toccata), "Excepcional" (Scherzo), "Melomano de Oro", and others.

Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica VIVALDI Violin Concertos & Sonatas

In view of the vast number of recordings of concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, it may come as a surprise that there are still works that have not so far been documented on recordings. The Spanish violinist Lina Tur Bonet and the renowned Vivaldi expert Olivier Fourés have compiled a programme with such 'premieres' for the present recording. These include the so-far unrecorded Violin Concertos, RV218 and RV346, the incompletely handed-down RV771 as well as two so-called 'Graz' Sonatas, for which Fourés reconstructed the cello part in the present version. In these works, Vivaldi shows a rather unusual aspect of himself - very diversified and variegated. Lina Tur Bonet, at the helm of her ensemble Musica Alchemica, plays with a full and round tone: with virtuoso élan in the fast movements and with dreamy lyricism in the slow passages.
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