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A castrato in Ireland: Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan & the Irish Baroque Orchestra recapture some of the magic of superstar castrato Tenducci
[…] Messink’s 1785 pantomime, The Island of Saints, or The Institution of the Shamrock and we hear the overture and Irish medley from this. These are three short-ish movements though only the final medley seems full of Irish tunes combined in lively 18th century style Johann Christian Bach was in fact another of Tenducci's friends and the pair of names interlink in various ways. It was probably for Tenducci that Bach arranged an aria from Michele Mortellari’s Arsace, an opera that had premiered with Tenducci in the title role in Padua in 1775, with Bach adding obbligato parts for oboe and fortepiano to the voice and strings to create a scena, Ebben si vada – Io ti lascio. This starts with a very dramatic accompanied recitative which certainly reminds you of Mozart's debt to the composer, and this develops into a lyrical aria in which Bach imaginatively uses the timbres of […]
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