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Handel - Italian Cantatas Vol.4 | Glossa GCD921524

Handel - Italian Cantatas Vol.4

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Label: Glossa

Cat No: GCD921524

Barcode: 8424562215245

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th September 2008

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Contents

Artists

Nuria Rial (soprano)
Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
La Risonanza

Conductor

Fabio Bonizzoni

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Cantata HWV83, 'Aminta e Fillide' (Arresta il passo)
Cantata HWV92, 'Clori, mia bella Clori'

Artists

Nuria Rial (soprano)
Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
La Risonanza

Conductor

Fabio Bonizzoni

About

Two new voices join Fabio Bonizzoni's project of recording the entirety of the cantatas with instrumental accompaniment which Handel composed when in Italy: sopranos Nuria Rial and Maria Grazia Schiavo enter the company of Roberta Invernizzi, Emanuela Galli, Raffaella Milanesi and Salvo Vitale, the singers whom we have been able to hear in the first three volumes of the collection.

In this fourth instalment (out of a total of seven CDs), we rediscover the patronage of the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, which lay behind the important cantata a due entitled Aminta e Fillide; this was a work which was to provide the composer with a veritable seam of musical material for use, as 'borrowings', in his operas Agrippina and Rinaldo - one of the reasons perhaps why this cantata has been rarely performed and even less recorded.

Both Aminta e Fillide and the extensive cantata for soprano, Clori, mia bella Clori, which rounds off this new disc, had their origins in the special environment of the Accademia degli Arcadi, that literary society founded by a group of aristocrats, cardinals, poets, thinkers and composers in 1690, which used to hold its meetings in idyllic spots around Rome.

Karl Böhmer's informed notes contained in the CD booklet suggest a number of stimulating points of view about the meaning and significance of these works for the Arcadians.

Recorded in Saint Michel en Thiérache, France, in June 2007.

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