New Music — From Naples to Madrid

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• From Naples to Madrid, performed by Nuria Rial

Label: Coviello Classics
Release Date: July 3, 2026
Audio CD: N/A
Number of Discs: 1

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New Music — Domenico Scarlatti: 14 Sonatas

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• Domenico Scarlatti: 14 Sonatas, performed by Aapo Häkkinen

Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: July 16, 2026
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Number of Discs: 1

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New Music — Scarlatti: Il Trionfo della Grazia

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• Scarlatti: Il Trionfo della Grazia, performed by Ensemble Celadon

Label: Ricercar
Release Date: July 10, 2026
Audio CD: $22.99
Number of Discs: 1

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Andrés Segovia and the Mediterranean Soul

Andrés Segovia (1893-1987)

A recent conversation about classical guitar led me back to Andrés Segovia. The discussion began with music, but it soon wandered elsewhere. The more I thought about Segovia, the more he seemed to embody something larger than Spain alone.

Born in Andalusia, Andrés Segovia was formed by a Mediterranean civilization shaped over millennia—a world forged by Rome, Catholicism, regionalism, and the enduring belief that beauty possesses moral and civilizing power. Southern Spain and Southern Italy shared centuries of intertwined history. Even their musical traditions developed with striking similarities: lyrical melancholy, devotional piety, folk memory, and a profound attachment to locality.

Segovia understood the guitar not as a fashionable instrument, but as something noble and worthy of the highest artistic tradition. Before him, the guitar was still widely regarded as popular or folkloric. Through discipline and mastery, he elevated the guitar to unprecedented prominence in the concert hall and transformed it into a vehicle for serious art. In this sense, his work recalls the older southern Italian efforts to preserve inherited forms against the flattening pressures of modernity.

Southern Italy possessed its own rich tradition of plucked-string music: the mandolins of Naples, the chitarra battente of Calabria, and the legacy of great composers such as Mauro Giuliani and Ferdinando Carulli. Like Giuliani and Carulli, Segovia treated the instrument with reverence rather than novelty, seeking depth, restraint, and spiritual seriousness over spectacle.

Listening to Segovia today, one hears more than technical mastery. One hears the lingering voice of an older Mediterranean world, whose ideals of beauty, discipline, and reverence have not entirely vanished. For that reason, Segovia belongs not only to Spain, but to the enduring Mediterranean soul.

~ By Giovanni Di Napoli, July 24th, Feasts of the Blessed Martyrs of Daimiel, the Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara, Blessed Maria Mercedes, and Blessed Xavier Bordas

New Music — Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantate Da Camera Vol. 2

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• Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantate Da Camera Vol. 2, performed by Emmanuelle De Negri and Philippe Grisvard

Label: Audax
Release Date: June 2, 2026
Audio CD: $22.01
Number of Discs: 1

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Spettacolo teatrale “Voci, suoni e canti di briganti in Terra di Lavoro”

Michela Musolino: Summer 2026 Performances

New Music — Francesco Cilea Collection

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• Francesco Cilea Collection performed by Enrico Bronzi, Massimo Quarta, and Domenico Codispoti

Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 2025
Audio CD: $17.99
Number of Discs: 5

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New Music — Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci

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• Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci performed by the Haymarket Opera Company

Label: Cedille
Release Date: 2026
Audio CD: $42.99
Number of Discs: 3

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New Music — Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade

Forthcoming music that may be of interest to our readers.

• Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade performed by Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani

Label: Arcana Records
Release Date: July 17, 2026
Audio CD: $29.99
Number of Discs: 2

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New Music: Prime Donne

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• Prime Donne performed by Marina Viotti, Andres Gabetta, and the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal

Label: Chateau Versailles
Release Date: October 29, 2025
Audio CD: $24.22
Number of Discs: 1

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New Music — Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas

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• Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas performed by Asako Ogawa

Label: First Hand
Release Date: March 19, 2026
Audio CD: $21.99
Number of Discs: 1

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Echoes of Venice – Musical Treasures from the Graz Court

The imperial Mausoleum attached to the former court chapel at Graz, which has since been elevated to the status of a cathedral

Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 7.30 P. M.

The Parish Church of St. Andrew
311 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Free parking in the lot diagonally across from St. Andrew’s.

Graz was the capital of Inner Austria, which was governed by a cadet branch of the Habsburg family. When the famously incompetent Emperor Matthias died in 1619, he was succeeded by his cousin, Archduke Ferdinand of Styria, who moved his personal retinue to Vienna upon his election as the next Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II.

Emperor Ferdinand II.’s father, Archduke Charles II. of Styria, had made Graz a center for Italian art & culture in his zealous efforts to implement the Counterreformation north of the Alps. The Graz court was, therefore, the entry point which brought the baroque to Austria, and, from there, throughout rest of Europe.

In 2026, Musica Transalpina commemorates four centuries since the death of Giovanni Priuli, who was Emperor Ferdinand II.’s cherished chapel master. Priuli was one of the most prominent composers to first import baroque musical influences from Venice while working at the Graz court. We are presenting impressive passages from the Graz chorbuch written for four choirs which have never been heard in modern times, and several enormous motets in up to twelve parts from Priuli’s nearly impossible to access Sacrorum Concentuum … pars altera, which was published in 1619: the same year that Emperor Ferdinand moved his court to Vienna –– a process which lasted the Graz court musicians well into 1620.

For more information, visit: https://musicatransalpina.org/

New Music — Piccinni: Son regina e sono amante

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• Piccinni: Son regina e sono amante performed Rosa Feola and the Cappella Neapolitana

Label: Pentatone
Release Date: February 18, 2025
Audio CD: $17.57
Number of Discs: 1

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An Evening of Sicilian Culture at Italian Charities of America in Queens, New York

Sicilian and Italian Folk Music Concert Featuring Amanda Pascali in Elmhurst, New York

Join us at Italian Charities of America on March 14, 2026, at 7:00 PM (ET) for an unforgettable evening with internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Amanda Pascali. Celebrated for her “Immigrant American Folk” sound and praised by NPR and other international outlets, Pascali brings to life the rich musical traditions of Sicily and Italy, blending Sicilian and English in songs that explore the first-generation American experience. A 2021 Houston Chronicle Musician of the Year and Fulbright Fellow, she has performed from the Kennedy Center to the European Union Parliament and serves as an artist in residence at the Library of Congress. The concert will be held at 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, NY 11373; seating is limited, so please register online. Refreshments will follow the performance.

Southern Italian Music for Holy Week

• Passione

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• La Voce Della Passione

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• Tenebrae: Neapolitan Music for the Holy Week

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• Passio Secundum Joannem by Francesco Feo

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Michela Musolino: An Evening of Sicilian Folk and Roots Music at the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles

New Music — Alessandro Scarlatti: Vieni, O Notte

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• Alessandro Scarlatti: Vieni, O Notte performed by Francesca Aspromonte, Boris Begelman, and Arsenale Sonoro

Label: Aparte
Release Date: December 17, 2025
Audio CD: $21.98
Number of Discs: 1

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New Music — Scarlatti: Christmas at the Bethlehem of the West - Music from Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

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• Scarlatti: Christmas at the Bethlehem of the West - Music from Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome performed by Carlotta Colombo, Giulio Prandi, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri

Label: Arcana Records
Release Date: July 16, 2025
Audio CD: $20.99
Number of Discs: 1

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