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Pastoral charm with an engaging sense of style: Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno from the English Concert at Wigmore Hall
[…] full copy of the score till one turned up in Münster. We can't be completely certain how the Münster version relates to that performed in 1707, but it has a more generous final trio than the original and commentators now think it is linked to the wedding celebrations in Naples that Handel attended (and for which he wrote the dramatic cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo). The Münster comes from a collection created by a Roman priest, Fortunato Santini (1777-1861) who, during the early 19th century, had access to private archives held by the Roman nobility, like the Ruspoli family. At the time of the cantata's first performance in Rome, opera was banned in Rome, so Roman patrons such as Ruspoli (for whom Handel was almost a house composer for a time) used other means. Clori, Tirsi e Fileno is a pastoral cantata that is almost an opera, and certainly the work has been staged in […]
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2018-09-26 09:48:00
Tomaso Albinoni: Il Concilio dei Pianeti – Chiara Taigi, Laura Brioli, José Luis Sola, I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone, Stefano Poda
[…] were written by Albinoni in 1710, but were not part of the "Concilio". The practice was intended to awaken interest in a new work by inserting already well-known pieces within it – a subtle but presumably effective form of Baroque self-advertising!Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)♪ Il Concilio dei Pianeti (Serenata a tre voci) (1729)Serenata in due tempiLibretto: Girolamo BaruffaldiEternità..........Chiara Taigi, sopranoGiove..........Laura Brioli, mezzo-sopranoMarte..........José Luis Sola, tenorI Solisti VenetiConductor: Claudio ScimoneStage direction, choreography, costumes and lights by Stefano PodaVideo direction by Mauro Santini and Tiziano Mancini Running Time: 92 minutes Padova, Sala della Ragione, 2009(HD 720p) On September 6, 2018, we sadly lost another pioneer of the early music movement. Claudio Scimone, a student of Dimitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara, was primarily known as the founder of the string ensemble "I Solisti Veneti". Together with Neville Marriner's "Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields", he stood at the forefront of fresh and bouncy interpretations of the Italian […]
2017-11-30 00:00:00
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
[…] the exception to that pattern being Plácido Domingo’s numerous DVDs, all theatrically convincing in the title-role but bringing a tenor timbre to an opera whose dark palette arises from three major roles for lower male voices. So this new set is a more accurate statement of where Verdi performance stands at the moment. Not as posh as Claudio Abbado on DG or as emotionally direct as the EMI Gabriele Santini set (with Tito Gobbi), this new set has Thomas Hampson and Joseph Calleja in performances that don’t just measure up to the recorded history but shine different kinds of light on the opera. "The overall production – in this Winter’s Tale plot of a ruler finding his lost daughter – feels polished amid the warm if slightly diffuse acoustics of the Vienna Konzerthaus. Neither orchestra nor chorus have the […]
2017-09-03 08:23:46
[…] sung by Amneris, Amonasro, and Radames that, in the Italian tradition, are sometimes sustained for far too long than they really should. Invoking a famous instance in Naples from 1954, (in which Maestro Muti surprisingly also referred us to check it out on YouTube), the baritone who sung Amonasro decided to hold a note (“Dei Faraoni tu sei la schiava!”) for far too long, and when the audience demanded an encore, the conductor – Gabriele Santini – refused, which subsequently got a lot of “boos” from the audience. Also, this is the first time that I’ve followed the opera along with the score (you can get a pretty decent copy by Ricordi- both the singing and piano parts- for a cheap price on Amazon), and I have to say that the incredibly precise attention to detail in the score by Maestro Muti is really something to marvel at. I’m […]
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