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Sit back and enjoy: London Early Opera's engagingly virtuosic performance of Handel's pasticcio, Caio Fabbricio
Handel, after Hasse: Caio Fabbricio - Fleur Barron, Anna Gorbachyova-Ogilvie, Miriam Allan, Hannah Poulsom, Morgan Pearse, Helen Charlston, Jess Dandy, London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham; SIGNUM CLASSICSHandel's late pasticcio showcasing the music of Hasse and the younger generation; perhaps weak on drama but featuring some stunning, stylish singingHaving heard it in concert [see my review], and now listened to it on disc, you feel that Handel's pasticcio Caio Fabbricio makes ideal home listening, you can enjoy the music and not have to worry about the more awkward corners in the drama. And there is some spectacular music. Handel created the pasticcio in 1733 to showcase the music of his younger contemporary, Hasse, using a songbook and libretto from Hasse's opera Caio Fabbricio to create a new opera, with Hasse's arias, Handel's new recitatives and orchestration. Except that having a line-up of singers available that differed significantly in voice types from those in the premiere […]
2022-04-25 10:19:22
Introducing Caio Fabriccio, Handel's pasticcio based on Hasse's opera
With our ideas of composer as artist and an opera as a perfect work of art, the 18th century's interest in the art of pasticcio (the creation of a new opera from a selection of existing music) seems to be somewhat puzzling, especially when composers as significant as Handel created pasticcios rather than writing new work. But for a composer like Handel, who was responsible for the company for which he wrote the operas, pasticcio solved a number of problems. It enabled him to vary the diet, introducing the work of newer, younger composers, whilst keeping the final product firmly under his control. And in the curious circumstances of opera in London in the 1730s, it took pressure off him. When the Royal Academy of Music was founded in 1719, it had been the creation of a group of aristocrats who engaged a selection of distinguished composers to write work […]
2021-10-16 12:22:07
Thrilling virtuosity and engaging personality in Arias for Ballino, tenor Jorge Navarro Colorado's exploration of rare 18th-century repertoire with Opera Settecento at London Handel Festival
Jorge Navarro Colorado (Photo Jan Rebuschat)Pen and brown ink drawing of Annibale Pio Fabri (‘Ballino’) c.1720-30 by Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder (courtesy of The Royal Collection Trust) Arias for Ballino - Handel, Mancini, Vivaldi, Corselli, Caldara, Alessandro Scarlatti, Francesco Scarlatti; Jorge Navarro Colorado, Opera Settecento, Leo Duarte; London Handel Festival at St George's Hannover Square Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 15 October 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) An exploration of arias written for the Italian tenor known as Ballino, who sang for two seasons in London and dazzled Europe with his virtuosityAnnibale Pio Fabri, known as 'Ballino', is not the best-known name amongst the singers who worked for Handel, yet on hearing him for the first time in 1729, Mrs Pendarves wrote described his voice as "sweet, clear and firm ... he sings like a gentleman, without making faces, and his manner is particularly agreeable; he […]
2012-07-27 22:39:22
Virgin territory
The chicken or the egg? Has the explosion of interest in the operas of Antonio Vivaldi mandated Naïve’s ambitious series of recordings or did all those CDs create a hunger for more and more live performances? About ten years ago while most of the recording industry was cutting back, the French CD company Naïve embarked on an extraordinary Vivaldi project which thus far numbers over forty volumes, twelve of them complete operas, including a reissue of Farnace by Catalan gambist/conductor Jordi Savall who also leads its latest opera release , Teuzzone. But the vogue for the Red Priest’s vocal works extends well beyond this influential Naïve project (which now includes Orlando Furioso on DVD ) to a stunning new Farnace from Virgin Classics , as well as superb aria collections by Ann Hallenberg and Roberta Invernizzi . Today it’s difficult to believe that Vivaldi’s music virtually […]
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