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Luca Pianca
12+ albums
baroqueClassicalitalianrenaissanceluth
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Luca Pianca (born 1958) is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico.,a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist-composer Roman Turovsky-Savchuk at international festivals, and received numerous international awards for his recordings. Luca Pianca was born in Lugano, Switzerland of ethnic Italian ancestry. He studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Austria. Since 1982 Pianca has collaborated with Concentus Musicus Wien. He also served as a lutenist at Zurich Opera House. In 1985 he was co-founder of Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonic Garden), an Italian early-music ensemble that pioneered performances of many Baroque and contemporary works. Luca Pianca has recorded more than 20 CDs, both with and without Il Giardino Armonico, including complete recordings of lute repertoire by J.S.Bach and Antonio Vivaldi. He has partnered with internationally known opera singers and soloists such as Italian Cecilia Bartoli, Eva Mei, and American Sylvia McNair. Since 1999, Pianca has teamed with viola da gamba player Vittorio Ghielmi to record numerous CDs. Since 2001 he has also collaborated with the contemporary lutenist-composer Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, whose works he premiered[2] at several international festivals: Urbino, Salamanca, Paris, and Vilnius, inter alia. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-
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Anonymous: Greensleeves (With Improvised Variations)
1,9782Fantasia 65
543Improvisation [Lute]
494Toccatta (Improvisation)
465Fantasia 30
366La rossignol (Arr. for Lute & Harp)
367Bach: Lute Partita In C Minor, BWV 997 - Preludio
358Prélude (Improvisation by Luca Pianca)
339Las je m'y plains
3210Recercar secondo
31albums
The Collected Recordings of Il Giardino Armonico
Anime Amanti
Toys for Two: From Dowland to California
Nobilissimo Istromento: Virtuoso Lute Music of the Italian Renaissance
The Art of Resonance: Archlute & Theorbo Music of the Italian Seicento
Narcisse au Parnasse: Works for Lute and Theorbo from the French "Grand-Siècle"
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Le secret de Monsieur Marais
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Geminiani: Sonates pour violoncelle avec la basse continue
Bagpipes From Hell
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Anime Amanti (Monteverdi, Caccini, Strozzi, Merula...)
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Bach 2000 (CD Sampler)
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Amore e morte dell'amore : Duets (Durante, Handel, Lotti, Marcello, Monteverdi, D. Scarlatti)