Word: caccini
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...scholarly aspect. She has made concerted efforts during her career to champion marginalized composers and underrated works that are rarely performed for the public. Her impressive commitment to the popularization of early music is evident in her work to bring the compositions of figures such as Scarlatti, Paisiello, Caldara, Caccini, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Salieri to the attentions of contemporary concert-goers and music-lovers...
...sing. Her only accompaniment was a therobo, a type of Baroque guitar that looks somewhat like a glorified soup spoon. This humble arrangement, however, was deceptively simple. Bartoli's first notes were tentative and seemed a bit unsure, but as she worked her way through four works by Guilio Caccini, she one could hear the strength coming into her voice. Bartoli showed hints of her vocal range by alternating between faster, animated songs ("Tu ch'hai le Penne, Amore," and "Amarilli") and slower, more sedate songs, such as "Belle Rose Porporine" and "Al Fonte, al Prato...
...mixed colorless Italian and Spanish songs with minor arias by Cilea, Caccini, Massenet, Lalo, Puccini, and Bellini, and since the Puccini was "E Lucevan le Stelle," which is barely music, Bellini was left as the tallest of the pygmies. An usher told me that Tagliavini has been singing these bleak, unimaginative programs for years...
Jean Lunn took on an ambitious task in three recitals of baroque vocal music at Paine Hall Wednesday. In such Italian works as those of Carissimi, Caccini, and Monteverdi, she presented some of the earliest samples of the "new music," a dramatic vocal style evolving during the latter 16th century. In works by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Rameau, A. Scarlatti, and Maurice Greene she traced some of the greatest developments of this style during the following century and a half. The programs were discriminately chosen and revived much music of historical interest and great beauty...
Symphony Hall.--"Pops" concert. Program for tonight: 1. Entrance of the Gladiators, Fucik 2. Overture to "William Tell," Rossini 3. Madrigal, Caccini 4. Fantasia, "Fause," Gounod 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody, in F major, Liszt 6. Flute solo, Mr. Arthur Brooke (a) Romance sans Paroles, Guilmant. (b) Polonaise, Possard. 7. Prelude, Rachmaninoff 8. Scenes Pittoresques, Massenet (a) Aair de Ballet. (b) Fete Boheme. 9. Overture Solennelle, "1812," Tschaikowsky 10. Ave Maria, from "Othello," Verdi 11. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 12. Slavonic Dance, No. 1, Dvorak