Angelo Questa, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI - Giovanni Paisiello: Fedra (2008)
Angelo Questa, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI - Giovanni Paisiello: Fedra (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 404 Mb | Total time: 58:52+50:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Andromeda | # ANDRCD5124 | Recorded: 1958
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 404 Mb | Total time: 58:52+50:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Andromeda | # ANDRCD5124 | Recorded: 1958
In Greek mythology Phaedra, sister of Ariadne, is married to Theseus, but falls in love with Hippolytus, Theseus’s son by another woman. Hippolytus turns her down and Phaedra, in revenge, tells Theseus that Hippolytus has raped her. Theseus believes her. What happens then is an open question, since there are several versions of the story. In one of them Theseus turns to Poseidon, who frightens Hippolytus’s horses and Hippolytus dies. In another version Theseus kills his son and Phaedra commits suicide. In a third version Phaedra doesn’t kill herself but Dionysus sends a bull which frightens Hippolytus’s horses.
This story has inspired many authors, for instance Euripides, Seneca, Racine, D’Annunzio and O’Neill, and composers including Mikis Theodorakis, Benjamin Britten and John Tavener. Several operas are also based on the Phaedra story: Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), Francesco Algarotti’s Ippolito e Aricia (1759), Giovanni Paisiello’s Fedra (1788), Simon Mayr’s Fedra (1820), Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Fedra (1912) and Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra (2007). Of these only the earliest, Rameau’s first opera Hippolyte et Aricie, can with some justification be named a standard work – at least within the early music sector.
Paisiello was an enormously prolific composer. Besides a lot of church music and a considerable amount of instrumental music, including nine string quartets and eight keyboard concertos, he composed 96 operas. Twelve of those were written during his stay at the court of Empress Catherine II of Russia in St Petersburg. The most famous was his masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia (1782) which was a resounding success in the rest of Europe as well. Insofar as he is known today it is primarily through this work. It was overshadowed by Rossini’s work of the same title and basically the same story – both works were closely based on Pierre Beaumarchais’s play – but didn’t disappear completely from the repertoire. It is still staged and has had at least three complete recordings.
Fedra was written for Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, where Paisiello returned after his sojourn in Russia. It opens with a finely wrought sinfonia which gives little hint whether what is to follow when the curtain rises will be buffo or seria. Structurally the first of the two acts is constructed along the pattern of the Neapolitan operas since the days of Alessandro Scarlatti: arias separated by recitative secco; that is accompanied by a harpsichord. Since this is a tragedy the chorus has a lot to sing in between, but this pattern prevails until we reach the end of the act. There Teseo meets Plutone and suddenly there is a darkness in the music and dramatic intensity, beginning with a threatening orchestral introduction followed by a dialogue that feels ‘modern’ – from a 1788 point of view. This feeling prevails for the rest of the act.
In the second act the tense atmosphere is a noticeable common feature. The arias are more dramatic, accompanied recitatives are employed more abundantly and the tension is increangly intense from Omnipotenti Dei questo è l’incontro in a scene that is practically through-composed. The scene also includes the only real duet, No, non partir with Aricia and Ippolito. There is very little in this act that can be characterised as light-hearted. Verdi could have turned this libretto into a true elevated tragedy had he ever bothered to tackle Greek mythology but Paisiello’s attempt is far from negligible.–Göran Forsling
Performer:
Fedra - Lucille Udovick
Aricia - Angelica Tuccari
Diana - Renata Mattioli
Tisifone - Ortensia Beggiato
Ippolito - Agostino Lazzari
Mercurio/Learco - Tomaso Frascati
Teseo - Renato Cesari
Plutone - Thomas O`Leary
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI
Conductor - Angelo Questa
Tracklist:
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
CD1:
01. Overture
02. Atto I. Dunque a forza si vuol (Ippolito)
03. Contro ogni nembo irato (Ippolito)
04. Aricia, che farai? (Aricia)
05. In si placido soggiorno (Coro)
06. Giunse alfin, principessa (Fedra)
07. Giusti Dei, che in ciel regnate (Coro)
08. March
09. I tuoi furori arresta (Diana)
10. Chi le mie leggi adora (Diana)
11. Che vidi? Che ascoltai (Aricia)
12. Se nell'amar chi l'ama (Aricia)
13. E ben verrà (Fedra)
14. Svegliati all'ire omai (Fedra)
15. Pur ti riveggo, o prence (Aricia)
16. Mille perigli insieme (Aricia)
17. Lascia almen ch'io respiri (Teseo)
18. E' vano chiedere (Coro)
19. Del gran rettor dell' onde (Fedra)
20. Quanto ha di orribile (Coro)
CD2:
01. Atto II. Ubbidita sarai (Learco)
02. Pietà non merita (Learco)
03. Ascolta. Può Fedra un atto grande (Fedra)
04. Vuoi dar morte a chi t’adora? (Fedra)
05. E impunita lasciar (Aricia)
06. Era le miserie estreme (Ippolito)
07. Learco, che facesti? (Fedra)
08. Viva l’eroe (Coro)
09. Stanco il ciel di vedermi (Teseo)
10. Giusto ciel! (Teseo)
11. Va’, t’invola (Teseo)
12. No, non partir ben mio (Aricia)
13. Mostro reo, tu cadesti (Diana)
14. Tu pagherai la pena (Aricia)
15. Siam vendicati (Teseo)
16. Nume arcier (Coro)
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Angelo Questa, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI - Giovanni Paisiello: Fedra (2008)
