Beatrice Palumbo, Marco Vitale, Contrasto Armonico - George Frideric Handel: Cantate 03 (2019)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: Jan. 28, 2023

Marco Vitale continues his thrilling project to record the complete cantatas by Handel, many of which have never before been recorded in their entirety or indeed at all, together with ensemble Contrasto Armonico and here featuring the Italian soprano Beatrice Palumbo. Six cantatas are presented in this third volume of the series, grouped together by the common theme of unrequited love, including "Chi rapì la pace", one of the earliest of Handel's Italian works.
Consisting of about 100 separate works, Handel's cantatas were mostly written over a period of a few years for private performance in Italy. The cantatas range from musical miniatures containing only two arias connected by recitative and accompanied by continuo (a bass line typically realized by cello and harpsichord) to larger works with named characters, a dramatic story, and rich instrumental forces. These are intimate works, with texts frequently written by (and sometimes about) members of the privileged audience for which they were composed. A number of Handel's cantatas have texts by one of his important Italian patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj.
Handel did not publish his cantatas, probably because they were written in private circumstances, but as a result they served him as a repository of inventive material throughout his life. Especially as he moved from city to city before settling for good in London, Handel chose to give his new audiences a chance to hear music he had written elsewhere.
The continuo cantatas have never been recorded in full and many have never been recorded at all. Thus, this project will bring to life largely unknown music by one of the world's greatest composers. Further, performance all the cantatas will place the larger, instrumental works in the musical context of their creation.
Marco Vitale is the co-founder and musical director of "Contrasto Armonico", baroque orchestra specialized in the performance of music in Italian style and baroque operas, using original instruments and historical performance practices. He is currently involved in the recordings of the Complete Italian Cantatas by Handel (formerly on Brilliant Classics, now on ayros), a thrilling project that will bring light on many undiscovered jewels of Handel which are neither edited nor recorded.

Performer:
Beatrice Palumbo, soprano
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, harpsichord & direction

Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Alpestre monte, HWV 81
01. Accompagnato. Alpestre monte
02. Aria. Io so ben ch’il vostro orrore
03. Recitativo. Quindi men vengo a voi
04. Aria. Almen dopo il fato mio
Chi rapì la pace al core, HWV 90
05. Aria. Chi rapi la pace al core?
06. Recitativo. Figlio d'un fabbro, e amore
07. Aria. Pupilla lucente
Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134
08. Recitativo. Nel dolce dell'oblio
09. Aria. Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge
10. Recitativo. Così fida ella vive
11. Aria. Ha l’inganno il suo diletto
Ah, che pur tropo è vero, HWV 77
12. Recitativo. Ah, che pur troppo è vero
13. Aria. Col partir la bella Clori
14. Recitativo. In solitaria parte
15. Aria. Care mura!
16. Recitativo. Numi ingiusti spietati
17. Aria. Da che perso ho la mia Clori
Non sospirar, non piangere, HWV 141
18. Aria. Non sospirar, non piangere
19. Recitativo. Sol potrai co' respiri
20. Aria. Sì bel foco è quel che t'arde
Figlio d'alte speranze, HWV 113
21. Recitativo. Figlio d'alte speranze
22. Aria. Troppo costa ad un’alma
23. Recitativo. Era conforto il suo penar tra i fiori
24. Aria. Sia guida, sia stella
25. Recitativo. In così dir previde
26. Aria. Brillava protetto

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