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CALDARA: IL GIUOCO DEL QUADRIGLIO (Nonesuch). Quadriglio, perhaps the best-known work of the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), is a showpiece cantata for four sopranos. It was commissioned by Archduchess Maria Theresa (later Empress of Austria) and performed at court by her and her sisters. The ladies must have minded their singing master to negotiate the runs and trills that ornament this gay, witty music about four bored young damsels desultorily playing cards and wishing that both their hands and their suitors were more exciting. The soloists and orchestra of the Societàa Cameristica di Lugano have...
...profiled, showily romantic reading by Conductor Schippers; a tensely moving performance of Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten; four "chamber ballets" by Choreographer John Butler. Still to come: Wisconsin-born Composer Lee Hoiby's opera The Witch, Florentine Composer Valentino Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone, the Daudet-Bizet L'Arlésienne...
Seymour, (P.) beat Price (C.), Giuoco Piano opening...
Murdoch (Y.) tied Seymour (P.), Giuoco Piano opening...
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