Post by julesd68 on Sept 10, 2018 19:59:31 GMT
I was upset to discover today that the great conductor and interpreter of baroque music, Claudio Scimone, passed away a few days ago.
Nowadays we take for granted ready access to a very wide Baroque programme in terms of both live and recorded music. But without doubt there is a significant debt due to pioneers like maestro Scimone, with his tireless advocacy of both popular and relatively unknown works, which he revived from the late 1960's and throughout his career.
I believe and trust that in time his dedication in this regard will be more universally recognised and appreciated.
In the meantime he has left a huge catalogue of recordings for us all to explore and enjoy.
www.discogs.com/artist/861942-Claudio-Scimone
Those he made for Erato are supremely reliable and consistent - you will be rewarded with warm, sensitive and joyful interpretations from the ensemble he founded and directed, I Solisti Veneti, with contributions from superb soloists of the time. The sound quality of these recordings is also wonderfully consistent and of demonstration quality.
Rest well maestro.
Nowadays we take for granted ready access to a very wide Baroque programme in terms of both live and recorded music. But without doubt there is a significant debt due to pioneers like maestro Scimone, with his tireless advocacy of both popular and relatively unknown works, which he revived from the late 1960's and throughout his career.
I believe and trust that in time his dedication in this regard will be more universally recognised and appreciated.
In the meantime he has left a huge catalogue of recordings for us all to explore and enjoy.
www.discogs.com/artist/861942-Claudio-Scimone
Those he made for Erato are supremely reliable and consistent - you will be rewarded with warm, sensitive and joyful interpretations from the ensemble he founded and directed, I Solisti Veneti, with contributions from superb soloists of the time. The sound quality of these recordings is also wonderfully consistent and of demonstration quality.
Rest well maestro.
