MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Opera Proibita
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI / ANTONIO CALDARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Opera Proibita
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski
[ Decca Records / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 September 2005
"A touch of the Fellinis as a scorching Bartoli meets the banned"
RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE Nov 2005
RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE Nov 2005
MUSICWEB RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR (2005)
"A touch of the Fellinis as a scorching Bartoli meets the banned. Never mind the rather confusing message of the cover: too many ideas, surely, for a single image! Rather concentrate on the music and the concept behind it - music banned by the Vatican during a brief period in the 18th century - and you will discover some musical gems presented with all the incandescence and volatility we have come to expect from La Bartoli. And in Marc Minkowski she has a partner of similar ideals: her vocal beauty is matched by the refinement of the playing of the Musiciens du Louvre. As with Bartoli's previous explorations of music from the Baroque, there is much to discover and much to be amazed at in the technique. Now, how about a Mozart album for 2006?"
RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE Nov 2005
Rome at the dawn of the 18th Century... The Church declares: ALL OPERA IS PROIBITA - BANNED!
On this long awaited new album, Cecilia Bartoli uncovers the glories of oratorios written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church.
Although many of these arias are written for female characters, public performances by female singers were also forbidden, so the roles were often sung by male castrati.
This recording is not only a rediscovery of a lost musical world of arias from the 'Forbidden Operas' of Handel, Scarlatti and Caldara, but a unique celebration by Bartoli of a period in the musical history of her home city of Rome.
The 15 showpiece arias were composed by three of the most acclaimed composers of the Baroque. The program includes 8 World Premiere Recordings of arias by Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Caldara. They are each incredibly virtuosic pieces that the wonderful talent of Cecilia Bartoli is uniquely equipped to perform. This album follows the same singer's outstanding collections of arias by Vivaldi, Gluck and Salieri which have done much to revive the neglect of these composers' operas.
Outstanding accompaniment from Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre completes the high artistic merit of this enterprise.
Tracks:
1. A SCARLATTI: All'arme si accesi guerrieri (Cantata per la Notte del Santissimo Natale)
2. A SCARLATTI: Mentre io godo in dolce oblio (Il Giardino di Rose - La Santissima Vergine del Rosario)
3. HANDEL: Un pensiero nemico di pace (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)
4. CALDARA: Vanne pentita a piangere (Il Trionfo dell'Innocenza)
5 . CALDARA: Sparga il senso lascivo veleno (La Castità al Cemento (Il Trionfo della Castità)
6. A SCARLATTI: Caldo sangue (Sedecia Re di Gerusalemme)
7. HANDEL: Come nembo che fugge col vento (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)
8. A SCARLATTI: Ecco negl'orti tuoi...Che dolce simpatia (Il Giardino di Rose - La Santissima Vergine del Rosario)
9. A SCARLATTI: Qui resta...L'alta Roma (San Filippo Neri)
10. HANDEL: Lascia la spina cogli la rosa (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)
11. A SCARLATTI: Ahi! qual cordoglio...Doppio affetto (Sedecia Re di Gerusalemme)
12. CALDARA: Si piangete pupille dolente (Santa Fracesca Romana)
13. CALDARA: Ahi quanto cieca...Come foco alla sua sfera (Il Martirio di Santa Caterina)
14. HANDEL: Disserratevi oh porte d'Averno (La Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesu Cristo)
15. HANDEL: Notte funesta...Ferma l'ali (La Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesu Cristo)
