Duetti e Terzetti italiani
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Duetti e Terzetti italiani
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Krystian Adam (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni
[ Glossa / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 25 November 2015
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Fabio Bonizzoni returns with a further Glossa release dedicated to the chamber vocal output of Georg Friedrich Handel: here, a second volume of duets (and trios), which features the vocal talents of Roberta Invernizzi, Silvia Frigato, Thomas Bauer and Krystian Adam. Whilst Handel wrote these small-scale vocal works across his career, this new selection focuses on that astonishingly fertile brief stay that the young Saxon made in Italy from 1707-09 (when he also produced many of the cantatas which Bonizzoni has recorded to great critical success for Glossa). These sensual duets and trios are imbued with Handel's discovery of Italian - especially the Arcadian - culture, which included him hearing and understanding the music of Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. How quickly and successfully Handel developed the chamber duet form is discussed in another of Stefano Russomanno's detailed explorations of Handel's music in the booklet essay. Much of the music for these duets and trios on this recording is scored for soprano and bass singers and Roberta Invernizzi, in particular, is afforded another opportunity to demonstrate her magical reaction to Handel's responsiveness to the Italian language. Not to be outdone in this respect are also the other vocal soloists and of course the experienced continuo team from La Risonanza: Caterina Dell'Angello (cello), Evangelina Mascardi (theorbo) and Fabio Bonizzoni himself (harpsichord).
"Of the works on the new Glossa recording HWV184 and HWV201 seem to be currently otherwise unavailable. That's reason enough in itself to obtain this recording but the quality of the performances is an even more cogent one. The spot-on accuracy of the singing and instrumental support is superbly conveyed by the recording." Recording of the Month MusiocWeb Feb 2016
"The chamber singing of all participants has pinpoint accuracy, refined poise and poetic expressiveness; there is a pleasing hint of teasing wistfulness between Bauer and Frigato in the gently affectionate Che vai pensando, folle pensier…continuo accompaniments are realised with exquisite subtlety by Caterina dell'Agnello (cello), Evangelina Mascardi (theorbo) and Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord). Beaming a searchlight into the darkest and furthest corners of Handel's youthful Italian-period creations, these sage performances are essential fare." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2016)
"sopranos Roberta Invernizzi and Silvia Frigato share the honours with tenor Krystian Adam and baritone Thomas Bauer, and they are all up to the pieces' demands…the accompaniments, meanwhile, are stylishly handled by the three members of La Risonanza" (BBC Music)
"Here's a new star in the making. Mineccia was a vicious-sounding Tolomeo, the villain of Alan Curtis's recording of Handel's Giulio Cesare, but this new album of arias, mostly written in London by Handel's Royal Academy colleague Ariosti, reveals a voice of sensual beauty, especially in languorous arias such as Bella mia, lascia ch'io vado, from The Glorious Omens of Scipio Africanus (Vienna, 1704). His virtuosity in the bravura numbers is breathtaking, too." Sunday Times, 24th January 2016
Tracks:
Quel fior che all'alba ride (Duetto XV)
Giù nei Tartarei regni v'andrem madonna, HWV 187
Quando in calma ride il mare, HWV 191
Amor gioie mi porge
Caro autor di mia doglia, arcadian duet HWV 182a
Che vai pensando, HWV184
Va, speme infida pur, HWV 199
Italian Duet No 10, HWV 196
Se tu non lasci amore, HWV201
