Filippo Mineccia - Leonardo Vinci: Alto Arias (2014)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: March 7, 2018

The name of Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with Leonardo da Vinci, is little known today, but he succeeded in the intensely competitive opera scene of the 1720s in Naples, at that time one of the greatest cities in the world. His comic operas were among the first to break up the Baroque style and push it toward the simplicity and lightness to come, but here the focus is on opera seria, which he wrote in abundance and for which he commanded libretti from Pietro Metastasio and other top writers of the day. These were virtuoso works, meant to show off a castrato's powers, and they turn out well in voice of the rather punk-imaged Italian countertenor Filippo Mineccia and the small-but-mighty instrumental group Stile Galante. "Galant" is not really the right word for these pieces, and Mineccia is at his best in high-octane arias like "Nella foresta," from the opera Medo (1728). His voice seems to settle into a rather vibrato-heavy middle register and then bloom with delightfully unexpected effect into the top range. He has a great deal of power, and when he tackles one of the castrato's trademark long notes in, say, "Ti calpesto, oh crudo Amore," from Astianatte (track 11), he sounds great. When trapped in the middle range, as in the sacred aria "Ai lampi del tuo lume," he's a bit less successful. But this fine release, augmented by excellent studio sound from Pan Classics, testifies that the opera repertory of the first half of the 18th century is still yielding good stuff and just waiting for committed performers like Mineccia to bring it alive.

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Track List:

1. Bella pace dal seno di Giove 4:20
(from the opera Gismondo re di Polonia, Rome 1727)
2. Sotto il peso tra sassi cadendo 8:08
(from the Oratorio di Maria dolorata, Naples between 1718 and 1725)
3. Nella foresta (from the opera Medo, Parma 1728) 5:33
4. Vengo a voi, funesti orrori (from the opera Medo, Parma 1728) 6:55
5. Se soffia irato il vento (from the opera Ernelinda, Naples 1726) 4:08
6. Ai lampi del tuo lume 4:01
(from the Oratorio per la Vergine del Rosario, Naples 1727)
7. Chi mi priega, chi m‘ama 6:31
(from the Oratorio per la Vergine del Rosario, Naples 1727)
8. Alma grande (from the opera Astianatte, Naples 1725) 3:29
9. Aprirti il seno (from the opera Eraclea, Naples 1724) 3:40
10. Che legge spietata (from the opera Catone in Utica, Rome 1728) 3:54
11. Taci, o di morte (from the opera Medo, Parma 1728) 9:26
12. Ti calpesto, oh crudo Amore 4:34
(from the opera Astianatte, Naples 1725)
13. Non meno risplende 4:02
(from the serenata La contesa de‘ Numi, Rome 1729)
14. In questa mia tempesta (from the opera Eraclea, Naples 1724) 4:39

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Performers:
Filippo Mineccia - countertenor
Francesca Cassinari - soprano [6]

Stile galante
Stefano Aresi, conductor

Stile Galante
Eva Saladin, Barbara Altobello, Rossella Borsoni - violin1
Tomoe Mihara Badiarova, Olga Popova, Elisa Imbalzano - violin2
David Rabinovici, David Alonso Molina - viola
Agnieszka Oszanca, Eimear Reidy - cello
Daniele Rosi double bass ∙ Gabriele Palomba - theorbo
Andrea Friggi, Fabio Falcone - harpsichord
Georg Fritz, Daniel Lanthier - oboe
Giovanni Battista Graziadio - bassoon
Pierre-Antoine Tremblay, Stephane Mooser - horn

Stefano Aresi - direction

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