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"Impressive and exhaustive" Billboard on Brian Morton's Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD"
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A Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music, Nicholas Clapton's 20-year career as a counter-tenor has seen him particularly involved in performing the repertoire of the great castrati. In 2006 he presented a television documentary on the castrato voice for BBC 4 and curated the hugely successful 'Handel and the Castrati' exhibition.
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Moreschi: The Last Castrato,
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Nicholas Clapton has done an masterful job in collecting career details on the last castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, handling this delicate subject matter with great panache. The background information and career details are thoroughly explored and many haunting photographs, notes, chronology and bibliography are included. The details of the private life of Moreschi are sadly lacking, but there were simply no avenues open for the author to explore here in light of the fact that his subject died on 21 April, 1922. Even without the personal details this book is an eerie, haunting read, affordably priced, artistically presented and a great investment for the musical connaisseur.There are a number of books out there that deal with the castrati and at least one novel. The curious musician will now be able to find many answers and feel much closer than before to Alessandro Moreschi. Among the beautiful photos included are several in color taken by the author and others including a photo of Moreschi's tomb. "Moreschi: The Last Castrato" is indeed a book that will not be forgotten anytime soon.
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The vocal tradition of which Moreschi was the 'last' representative stretches back far beyond the famous castrati of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe to the vocally-gifted eunuchs of the Imperial Chinese court and the gelded choristers of Byzantium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pope Leo, Cappella Giulia, Pope Pius, Perpetual Director, Council of Trent, Holy Father, Madonna del Castagno, San Salvatore, Papal States, Vittorio Emmanuele, Giuseppe Baini, Holy Week, San Silvestro, Santa Cecilia, Sistine Diaries, Pope Benedict, Annuario Pontificio, Domenico Salvatori, Giovanni Cesari, Maestro Capocci, Musica Sacra, Pope Sixtus, Professor Alessandro Moreschi New!
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The vocal tradition of which Moreschi was the 'last' representative stretches back far beyond the famous castrati of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe to the vocally-gifted eunuchs of the Imperial Chinese court and the gelded choristers of Byzantium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pope Leo, Cappella Giulia, Pope Pius, Perpetual Director, Council of Trent, Holy Father, Madonna del Castagno, San Salvatore, Papal States, Vittorio Emmanuele, Giuseppe Baini, Holy Week, San Silvestro, Santa Cecilia, Sistine Diaries, Pope Benedict, Annuario Pontificio, Domenico Salvatori, Giovanni Cesari, Maestro Capocci, Musica Sacra, Pope Sixtus, Professor Alessandro Moreschi New!
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- Ave Maria by Charles Gounod on page 31, page 146, and Back Matter
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond by Shaun Tougher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Peter Pan Acting (Acting Edition) by James M Barrie in Back Matter
- The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells in Back Matter
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