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    Handel - Alessandro Severo, HWV A13; Manzaro: Don Crepuscolo (George Petrou) [2011]

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    Handel - Alessandro Severo, HWV A13; Manzaro: Don Crepuscolo (George Petrou) [2011]

    Handel - Alessandro Severo, HWV A13; Manzaro: Don Crepuscolo (George Petrou) [2011]
    EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 3cd, 877.06 MB
    Classical | Label: MDG | Catalog Number: 609 1674-2

    Alessandro Severo is a pasticcio, an Italian term meaning a jumble or hodgepodge. In the operatic context, it refers to a work made up of music composed for another occasion and reused with little or no change. Handel produced three pasticcio operas based on his own music: Oreste (1734), Alessandro Severo (1738), and Giove in Argo (1739); only the latter contains any substantial new music. With this release, we now have recordings of all three.
    For Alessandro Severo Handel wrote a new overture and recitatives. All of the remaining music came from previous operas: Giustino (seven arias, a chorus, a sinfonia), Arminio (four arias, a sinfonia), Berenice (three arias, a duet, a sinfonia), Atalanta (three arias), Orlando (two arias), Siroe (an aria and the final coro), Arianna in Creta and Ezio (one aria each), and Radamisto (a duet). Most of these operas were works Handel did not revive after their initial presentation, so much of the music would probably have been unfamiliar to many in the audience, although the four works most heavily drawn upon had all been premiered less than two years before Alessandro Severo. The reused music is all of a very high quality. It all sounds natural in its new setting; if one did not know that this is a pasticcio, one would never guess that the music had not been expressly composed for this work. Most of the music is used unchanged, except for necessary verbal alterations in the new context, although some arias are shorted from their originals. Only one aria, “Che posso dir, o cara,” is substantially rewritten, and only in its A section.
    This is George Petrou’s fifth Handel opera recording. His first was the 1734 pasticcio Oreste; he has also given us recordings of Arianna in Creta, Tamerlano, and Giulio Cesare. All have been noteworthy recordings, and this latest venture is no exception. The recording displays the virtues (many) and flaws (few and relatively minor) of his previous efforts.
    To begin with the virtues, Petrou sets reasonable tempos, lively but not extreme. He extracts excellent playing from his period-instrument group, one he has not used on previous recordings. The cast is mostly excellent, never less than good. Mary-Ellen Nesi, the Alessando, has been a fixture of all four previous recordings. Her dark, supple mezzo is very well suited to the main castrato role, and she is adept at the often florid music Handel lavished on the character, a trait shared by all members of the cast, who are all technically secure. Marita Solberg has not appeared in previous Petrou Handel recordings. She is a winning addition to his group of singers. Her bright, lovely, clear voice is perfectly suited to Salustia. Kristina Hammarström has a somewhat hard edge to her dark mezzo voice, which fits perfectly the jealous, vengeful character she sings. Petros Magoulas, another veteran of the four previous recordings, is excellent as Marziano. The secondary pair of lovers, Irina Karaianni (Albina) and Gemma Bertagnolli (Claudio), sings well, though their voices are not quite as pleasant to hear as those of the rest of the cast.
    The negatives are the same as those that afflict virtually every period-instrument performance that has come my way in recent years: unidiomatic treatment of the continuo group and of da capo ornamentation.
    Alessandro Severo is complete on two discs. The third disc is labeled a “BONUS-CD” and contains a short one-person azione comica by the Corfu native Niccolò Manzaro (also known by his Greek name as Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros), who lived from 1795 to 1872. The music of this comic scene inhabits the world of early Rossini and makes for pleasant listening. It is well performed by Christophoros Stamboglis and by Petrou and his orchestra. It lasts about 30 minutes. Why it is paired with an opera by Handel is a mystery.
    As with earlier Petrou recordings from MDG, the translation is taken from Handel’s day. MDG’s printing is, as before, riddled with typos. Although it is claimed that the Manzaro disc is a “bonus,” a check of several websites shows that this recording is being sold for the same price as other three-disc operas in the series. I fail to see where the bargain is.
    This release is a major addition to the Handel discography and deserves a place on the shelf of every devoted Handelian.
    FANFARE: Ron Salemi

    Tracklisting:
    CD1
    01 Atto Primo. Overtura
    02 Menuetto
    03 Coro: Viva Augusto, eterno impero
    04 Recitativo: Augusto, sei del ciel
    05 Aria: Lascio Gian', e sieguo Marte (Marziano)
    06 Recitativo: Nunzio del Re de' Parti
    07 Duetto: Non ho piu affanni no (Salustia, Alessandro)
    08 Recitativo: Giulia non son
    09 Aria: Lo sdegno del mio cor (Giulia)
    10 Aria: Chi sa dirti o core amante (Albina)"
    11 Recitativo: O dell' alta tua sorte
    12 Aria: Zeffiretto che scorre nel prato (Albina)
    13 Recitativo: Le suppliche vassale qui son raccolte
    14 Aria: Che posso dir, o cara? (Alessandro)
    15 Recitativo: E mi lascia?
    16 Aria: Un vostro sguardo (Salustia)
    17 Recitativo: Tu Albina? Non e ver
    18 Aria: Lascia ch'io parta lieto (Claudio)
    19 Recitativo: Misera Albina!
    20 Aria: Niente spero, tutto credo (Albina)
    21 Recitativo: Chi non ebbe alma saggia in fausta sorte
    22 Aria: Si faro ch'il figlio avra (Giulia)
    23 Recitativo: Qual tubine di mali m'inonda
    24 Aria: Ch'io mai vi possa lasciar d'amare (Salustia)
    25 Atto Secondo. Sinfonia
    26 Recitativo: Salustia? Ahime! Qual vista!
    27 Aria: S'e tuo piacer, ch'io vada (Salustia)
    CD2
    01 Recitativo: Madre, pieta
    02 Aria: Se si vanta il cieco dio (Alessandro)
    03 Recitativo: N'osserva alcuno
    04 Aria: Vedi l'ape ch'ingegnosa (Claudio)
    05 Recitativo: Va pur, so le tue trame, ho in man la mia vendetta
    06 Aria: Vanne pur, infido, va (Albina)
    07 Recitativo: A' questo ufficio vile Augusta mi condanna
    08 Aria: Se l'arcanno scoprire vorrai (Giulia)
    09 Recitativo: Sam soli, Marziano
    10 Aria: Nasce al bosco in rozza cuna (Marziano)
    11 Recitativo: Spera, spera, o mio core
    12 Aria: Saldaquercia in erta blaza (Alessandro)
    13 Atto Terzo. Sinfonia
    14 Recitativo: Con quest'alma ostinata
    15 Aria: Sull' altar di questo nume (Alessandro)
    16 Recitativo: Ben solecita fosti
    17 Aria: Sventurata navicella (Albina)
    18 Recitativo: Qual' amor, qual costanza
    19 Aria: Quell' oggettto schernito e sprezzato (Claudio)
    20 Recitativo accompagnato: Un icognito affanno (Giulia)
    21 Recitativo: Augusta! In cheto sono tien chiusi
    22 Aria: Impara, ingrata, impara (Marziano)
    23 Recitativo: Augusta, or ch'a miei voti arrise il cielo
    24 Duetto: Gli dirai (Salustia, Giulia)
    25 Recitativo: Or del Padre infelice
    26 Aria: O care parolette, o dolci sguardi (Salustia)
    27 Sinfonia
    28 Recitativo: Salva, o Madre t'abbraccio e appena il credo
    29 Aria: Con l'ali di constanza (Alessandro)
    30 Recitativo: Seguimi, non temer
    31 Coro: Dolcissimo amore
    CD3
    01 Aria: Figli del amor mio, Numi d'antichita
    02 Recitativo: O cari, cari, cari mostri d'antichita
    03 Aria: Di Palermo e Salamanca per le scuole trapassai
    04 Recitativo: Ho chiaccherato troppo
    05 Recitativo stromentato: Eccomi in campo, adesso m'abbandono alla sorte
    06 [Intermezzo]
    07 Rondo Finale: Ne' giorni tuoi felici scordati pur di me

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    Performer:
    Alessandro - Mary-Eleen Nesi
    Salustia - Marita Solberg
    Giulia - Kristina Hammarstrom
    Albina - Irini Karaianni
    Claudio - Gemma Bertagnolli
    Marziano - Petros Magoulas
    Armonia Atenea (on period instruments)
    Conductor - George Petrou
    Bonus (CD3)
    Niccolo Manzaro – Don Crepuscolo (1815)
    Christophoros Stamboglis, bass