Ancient Groove Music

08/05/2024

I've just created editions of selected arias by Lotti for each voice type, which may be useful.

https://www.ancientgroove.co.uk/lotti/secular.html

18/04/2024

An article I've written about creating Early Music editions with Dorico notation software.

We bridge the nearly 500-year gap between 21st-century software and 16th-century plainsong when creating early music in Dorico.

16/04/2024

A new edition of Peter Cornelius's 'Requiem' part-song, now with the correct notes for the first time in 100 years!

21/02/2024

Surviving excerpts from two of Lotti's operas: Il Tirsi and Il vincitor generoso, now available.

Also several Verse anthems and services by Gibbons.

09/03/2023

New edition of Richard Ayleward's anthem "The King shall rejoice", first performed at the Coronation of Charles II.

04/11/2022

Just completed my edition of the second of Lotti's two surviving Oratorios, Il voto crudele. (On top of my editions of his 7 surviving operas.)
https://www.ancientgroove.co.uk/lotti/lottioratorio.html
Next stop: all the incomplete bits!

It is not known how many oratorios Lotti wrote. Only two are known to survive complete; there are libretti and documentary records of at least six more; and there are a handful of arias that are not found in surviving libretti. At least four of his oratorios were written for the Venetian Ospedale: t...

09/09/2022

Church musicians may like to know that I've updated the editions of Preces & Responses, free to download.

https://www.ancientgroove.co.uk/freebies/responses.html

01/07/2022

And that's all seven of Lotti's complete operas, now available to download.

https://www.ancientgroove.co.uk/lotti/lottiopera.html

Antonio Lotti was a prolific and highly successful composer of opera for the Venetian stage. He also 'fixed' a company of some of the leading opera singers of the day to perform at the Saxon Court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. (Several of those singers would go on to sing for Handel in London.)

15/09/2021

Just finished my SIXTH of Lotti's Operas, Foca Superbo.
(Also a few revisions to the others.)
https://ancientgroove.co.uk/lotti/lottiopera.html

Now available to download.

Antonio Lotti was a prolific and highly successful composer of opera for the Venetian stage. He also 'fixed' a company of some of the leading opera singers of the day to perform at the Saxon Court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. (Several of those singers would go on to sing for Handel in London.)

05/08/2021

New editions of the recently 'found' Credo in D major, and a superb fugue in the fragmentary Kyrie in D minor (No.4!). Now available to download on the site.

28/07/2021

Very excited by the discovery of yet more (previously unknown) concert mass settings by Antonio Lotti….!
New editions coming soon.

20/06/2021

Lotti's Miserere mei in E minor (SATB, strings) now available to download.

18/05/2021

Now FIVE of Antonio Lotti's operas available to download as complete full scores.

Giove in Argo, his wonderful Pastoral is now here. (As usual, Handel used the libretto.)

https://ancientgroove.co.uk/lotti/lottiopera.html

Antonio Lotti was a prolific and highly successful composer of opera for the Venetian stage. He also 'fixed' a company of some of the leading opera singers of the day to perform at the Saxon Court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. (Several of those singers would go on to sing for Handel in London.)