2012
April 23, 2012 | New Release
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Opera Arias
Awards:
- DISCO EXCEPCIONAL (Scherzo)
- FANFARE WANT LIST (Fanfare)
- DISCO DEL MESE (Classic Voice)
- 5 STELLE (Classica)
- 5 STELLE (Musica)
Press review (partial):
"Concerto de’ Cavalieri gives vigorous and lively performances, following historically informed performance practice, which relies on Marcello Di Lisa’s scholarship. His unique background in Greek and Latin Philology has allowed the ensemble to move in a variety of interesting directions.
April 23, 2012 | New Release
Alessandro Scarlatti
Cantatas
Awards:
- FANFARE WANT LIST (Fanfare)
- 10 KLASSIK HEUTE (Klassik Heute)
- 5 STELLE (Musica)
Press review (partial):
“The interpretation is, in my opinion, practically flawless. The tempos reflect the changes of the mood of the text, now raucous, now plaintive, and Di Lisa allows for a continuous flow of the music that rivets one’s attention to the drama. Indeed, the variations keep one’s attention and focus in anticipation of what comes next, the true method of subsuming the listener into the music. To say Scarlatti comes alive is an understatement, and this is due mostly to Di Lisa’s finely nuanced interpretation. [...] As this is the second disc of this year’s crop, both equally top class, I personally would have difficulty not putting both into my Want List for the year. [...] This is one disc that everyone must have.”
Fanfare
April 12, 2012 | Review on MusicalAmerica
Marcello Di Lisa
"the new artist of the month"
When the conductor is a scholar
by Carlo Vitali
The first time I came across Marcello Di Lisa’s name was in 2010, while reviewing some CDs for the 350th anniversary of Alessandro Scarlatti’s birth. A compilation of rare sacred works on the German label CPO was followed by an even more impressive anthology of operatic arias and ouvertures, most of them premiere recordings, issued on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. What struck me at first sight was the combination of starry Baroque vocalists (such as Gemma Bertagnolli, Sara Mingardo and Daniela Barcellona) with a whoolly obscure conductor and his period band Concerto de’ Cavalieri, meaning: concert of knights.
April 2, 2012 | Review on Gramophone
Premiere recordings aplenty
in Di Lisa's Scarlatti Project
by David Vickers
The 350th anniversary of Alessandro Scarlatti’s birth fell in 2010 but did not receive the fuss that one of the most fascinating ltalian Baroque composers deserves. His operas are particularly neglected but Daniela Barcellona and Concerto de’ Cavalieri go some way towards remedying this situation. Director Marcello Di Lisa has chosen a fascinating programme of sinfonias and arias from Scarlatti’s six last extant serious operas (1716-21), written for the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples (Tigrane, Carlo re d'Allemagna and Cambise) and for Rome’s Teatro Capranica (Telemaco, Marco Attilio Regolo and Griselda).
April 1, 2012 | Concert in Naples
First run serenade "Erminia"
Alessandro Scarlatti
Naples, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano | october 22, 2011
Complete press review
“Compared with the wanton fury and the morose languors of several period bands, Concerto de’ Cavalieri’s technically sterling musicianship has a refreshing clarity, without any loss of rhythmic liberty. It has vigor, thrust and eloquence. […] Leading from the harpsichord, Marcello Di Lisa flawlessly negotiated the fiendishly difficult vocal parts and the complexities of a particularly rich orchestral scoring. This young man seems poised for great accomplishments in the field of Baroque music.”
Musical America, aprile 2012