Arianna Vendittelli, Andrea Buccarella - Vivaldi, Cantate per soprano I (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

This new recording in the Edition Vivaldi series - the first of two volumes dedicated to Vivaldi’s cantate da camera for soprano - displays the energetic vitality with which a new generation of artists in their thirties is encountering the baroque repertoire.

This sixty-eighth album of the Edition highlights the expressively powerful voice of the soloist, soprano Arianna Vendittelli, already heard in the operas Il Tamerlano (2020) and Il Giustino (2018) conducted by Ottavio Dantone, as well as the artistic vision and high standards of the harpsichordist, organist and conductor Andrea Buccarella, who in 2018 carried off the first prize at the Bruges International Early Music Competition with his Abchordis Ensemble.

In these six cantatas - of around thirty attributed to the Venetian master and composed between 1718 and the mid- 1730s - these artists display their enhanced vocal and instrumental artistry, and a profound understanding of Vivaldi’s scores.  No subtlety escapes these artists in their interpretation of this secular vocal genre, so fashionable during the 18th Century, and still being rediscovered today, with its alternating arias and recitatives. Love is the main subject, love in all its guises, demanding a wide expressive range, from the melancholy register of “Ti confide il pianto moi” (RV 652) to the tormented passion of “Perché saettarmi” (RV 650), via the two lighter arias of Tra l’erbe i zeffiri (RV 669), and the strikingly dramatic Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora (RV 667) with its aria di furore, “Ardi svena, impiaga, atterra”.

Exuberantly joyous vocal virtuosity, mastery of the instrumental ensemble, ever-changing colours, rhythmic inventiveness and the playfully diverse timbre of the continuo: everything combines to make this set of vivid, brief tableaux seem like miniature operas: they must surely count among Vivaldi’s most beautiful theatrical works.

TRACKLIST

01. Arianna Vendittelli - Allor che lo sguardo, RV 650: I. Aria. Allor che lo sguardo
02. Arianna Vendittelli - Allor che lo sguardo, RV 650: II. Recitativo. Pena così spietata
03. Arianna Vendittelli - Allor che lo sguardo, RV 650: III. Aria. Perché saettarmi
04. Arianna Vendittelli - Aure, voi più non siete, RV 652: I. Recitativo. Aure, voi più non siete
05. Arianna Vendittelli - Aure, voi più non siete, RV 652: II. Aria. Ti confido il pianto mio
06. Arianna Vendittelli - Aure, voi più non siete, RV 652: III. Recitativo. Infelice Daliso
07. Arianna Vendittelli - Aure, voi più non siete, RV 652: IV. Aria. Le fiorite e belle sponde
08. Arianna Vendittelli - Tra l'erbe i zeffiri, RV 669: I. Aria. Tra l’erbe i zeffiri
09. Arianna Vendittelli - Tra l'erbe i zeffiri, RV 669: II. Recitativo. Voi rivi, augelli, venti
10. Arianna Vendittelli - Tra l'erbe i zeffiri, RV 669: III. Aria. Nel mar la navicella
11. Arianna Vendittelli - Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora, RV 667: I. Recitativo. Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora
12. Arianna Vendittelli - Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora, RV 667: II. Aria. Nasce il sole ed io sospiro
13. Arianna Vendittelli - Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora, RV 667: III. Recitativo. Ah Silvia tu sei quella
14. Arianna Vendittelli - Sorge vermiglia in ciel la bella Aurora, RV 667: IV. Aria. Ardi, svena, impiaga, atterra
15. Arianna Vendittelli - La farfalletta s'aggira al lume, RV 660: I. Aria. La farfalletta s’aggira al lume
16. Arianna Vendittelli - La farfalletta s'aggira al lume, RV 660: III. Aria. Vedrò con nero velo
17. Arianna Vendittelli - La farfalletta s'aggira al lume, RV 660: II. Recitativo. Silvia, tu quella sei
18. Arianna Vendittelli - Si levi dal pensier, RV 665: I. Aria. Si levi dal pensier
19. Arianna Vendittelli - Si levi dal pensier, RV 665: II. Recitativo. Pastori vaghi e infidi
20. Arianna Vendittelli - Si levi dal pensier, RV 665: III. Aria. Vanne sull’Adria infido



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