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Tropirollo, Vol. 15,Various Artists,Balboa,Latin,Mexican
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Handel Arias for Cuzzoni / Saffer · PBO · McGegan
George Frideric Handel , Nicholas McGegan , Lisa Saffer , and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000007CS Release Date: 1992-12-14 |
Tracks:
- Rodelinda - Act II, Scene 3: Spietati
- Rodelinda - Act I, Scene 7: Ombre, piante, urne funeste!
- Riccardo I - Act III, 8: Il volo cosi fido
- Guilio Cesare - Act II, 8: Se pieta di me non senti
- Guilio Cesare - Act III, 3: Piangero la sorte mia
- Guilio Cesare - Act III, Scene 6: Da tempeste il legno infranto
- Scipione - Act II, Scene 8: Scoglio d'immota fronte
- Ottone - Act I, Scene 3: Falsa immagine
- Ottone - Act I, Scene 10: Affanni del pensier
- Tamerlano - Act I, Scene 5: Se non mi vuol amar
- Alessandro - Act III, Scene 4: L'Amor che per te sento
- Flavio - Scene I, Act 13: Amante stravagante
Customer Reviews:
Full of Handelian Esprit.......2006-06-18
Francesca Cuzzoni (d. 1770) was one of two Italian soprano “prima donnas” that Handel kept busy at his opera houses in London during the 1720’s and 1730’s. As one can well imagine, the two of them were not on the best of terms, and it is said that it came to blows on stage, something that was made fun of a little later in Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera”. But despite the shortcomings in her character, Cuzzoni appears to have been a wonderful singer, eliciting from some bright spark the memorable phrase: “Damme, she has a nest of nightingales in her belly.” Handel penned a large number of his finest arias with Cuzzoni in mind, and the most difficult decision facing Lisa Saffer and Nic McGegan when they planned this CD of “Arias for Cuzzoni” must have been, which ones to leave out. In the end they made, I think, a fair choice, with two arias each from “Rodelinda” and “Ottone”, three of Cleopatra’s airs from “Giulio Cesare in Egitto”, and single numbers from “Ricardo Primo”, “Scipione”, “Tamerlano”, “Alessandro” and “Flavio.” A further great decision they made was to include the preceding recitative before each aria, thus creating a little bit of context: Handel’s da capo arias were not really intended for a 72 minute recital by a single singer, and the recitatives provide small breaks and introduce the listener at the same time to the situation and the emotions involved in the following aria.
As with David Thomas on his “Arias for Montagnana”, there have been differences of opinion concerning Lisa Saffer’s performance here; and as there, I think this is probably just a matter of taste: personally, I enjoyed Lisa Saffer’s singing greatly, although I did detect some hardness of timbre in exposed passages. Ms Saffer is technically brilliant, but her voice is relatively small, so that I felt she had to replace emotional intensity with brilliant modulation and ornamentation. I compared the “Giulio Cesare” arias on the disc with Roberta Alexander’s performance with the Concentus Wien under Harnoncourt, recorded a couple of years earlier, and came to the conclusion that Lisa Saffer could not match Ms Alexander’s emotional expressivity. On the other hand, Saffer’s voice seems to be more appropriate to the “early music” style – and the McGegan disc is, from the standpoint of both orchestra and engineering, at least head and shoulders better than the Harnoncourt.
Even those who are not enamoured of Ms Saffer’s voice tend to admit that the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra gives a marvellous performance on this CD. The music is full of Handelian esprit and is captured more or less perfectly, including solos by Stephen Schulz, transverse flute, and Judith Linsenberg, recorder, and not to forget Nic McGegan himself at the harpsichord providing great continuo and sometimes more. It is a measure of the quality of the disc that I have just listened to it three times in a row and found myself loving it more each time.
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Ferrero Recordings 1930 - 1953
Manufacturer: Stradivarius ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000196U Release Date: 1995-08-22 |
Tracks:
- Sinf No.1 in C Op.21: Adagio Molto - Allegro Con Brio
- Sinf No.1 in C Op.21: Andante Cantabile Con Moto
- Sinf No.1 in C Op.21: Minuetto
- Sinf No.1 in C Op.21: Adagio - Allegro Molto Vivace
- Primo Preludio Per Archi
- Secondo Preludio Per Archi
- Preludio in B flat
- Momento Musicate No.3
- Traumerei
- Khovanscina Interludio Atto IV
- Il Volo Del Calabrone
- Kikimora Op.63
- Notturno Op.76 No.1
- Manon Lescaut Intermezzo Atto IV - Orch Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano/Willy Ferrero
- Fetes (Da Nocturnes)
Tracks:
- Bolero
- Daphnis Et Chole 2a Ste
- Danza Da 'La Vida Breve' - Orch Stabile Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia/Willy Ferrero
- Pantomima Da 'El Amor Brujo'
- Danza Rituale Del Fuoco Da 'El Amor Brujo'
- Danza Del Mugnaio Da 'El Sombrero De Tres Picos'
- Danza Della Mugnaia Da 'El Sombrero De Tres Picos'
- Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Op.28
- Valse Triste
- L'Ottobrata Da Feste Romane
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Iacobus Handl-Gallus: Moralia; Harmoniae Morales (Box Set)
Manufacturer: Ars Musici ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005YJPX Release Date: 2002-01-29 |
Tracks:
- I. Diversos Diversa Iuvant
- II. Tempore Felici Multi Numerantur Amici
- III. Usibus Edocto Si Quicqam Credis Amico
- IV. Cede Repugnanti
- V. Quid Mihi, Livor Edax
- VI. Nec Veneris, Nec Tu Vini Capiaris Amore
- VII. Sperne Lucrum
- VIII. Quid Petitur Sacris
- IX. Adeste Musae, Maximi Proles Iovis
- X. Quod Latet, Ignotum Est
- XI. Nescio Quid Sit Amor
- XII. Qui Sermone Placet
- XIII. Cui Bene Succedit
- XIV. Noli Laudari
- XV. Si Vitare Velis
- XVI. Cui Sunt Multa Bona
- XVII. Carmina Laudantur
- XVIII. Omnia Vincit Amor
- XIX. Odi Et Amo
- XX. Gaudia Principium
- XXI. Turpe Sequi Casum
- XXII. Qui Capit Uxorem
- XXIII. Oderunt Hilarem Tristes
- XXIV. Principibus Placuisse Viris
- XXV. Qui Cito Dat
- XXVI. Qui Cantum Corvi Cras Imitatur
- XXVII. Permultos Liceat Cuculus
- XXVIII. Musica Noster Amor
Tracks:
- XXIX. Musica Musarum Germana
- XXX. Multum Deliro
- XXXI. Inveni Portum
- XXXII. Diligitur Nemo
- XXXIII. Turpe Referre Pedem
- XXXIV. Omnis Homo Nihil Est
- XXXV. Qui Leviter Credit
- XXXVI. Tempore Felici Non Cognoscuntur Amici
- XXXVII. Conscia Mens Recti
- XXXVIII. Pauperiem Modico Contentus
- XXXIX. Nobile Vincendi Genus
- XL. Heu, Quam Difficile Est
- XLI. Semper Pauper Eris
- XLII. Quam Bene Apud Memores
- XLIII. Dulces Exuviae
- XLIV. Cum Moritum Dives
- XLV. Tu Ne Cede Malis
- XLVI. Usus Amicorum Bonus
- XLVII. Plus Laudatori
- I. Dii Tibi, Si Qua Pios Respectant Nimina
- II. O Fortuna Potens
- III. Currit Parvus Lepulus
- IV. Qui Fugat Intrepidos
- V. Casta Novenarum Iacet Aula
- VI. Gallus Amat Venerem
- VII. Quam Gallina Suum Parit Ovum
- VIII. Ergo Mihi Uxorem Qualem Ducam?
- IX. Anna Soror, Soror Anna
- X. Heu, Crucior Certe
- XI. Nusquam Tuta Fides
- XII. Heroes, Pugnate Viri Fortissimi
- XIII. Proditor Est Ut Hypocrita
- XIV. Cogitate Miseri
- XV. Si Vis Laudari
- XVI. Si Tibi Gratia
- XVII. Nil Est Asperius Misero
- XVIII. Hanc Volo, Quae Non Vult
- XIX. Uxor, Amice, Tibi Est Semper Mala
Tracks:
- XX. Quod Licet, Ingratum Est
- XXI. Dulcis Amica, Veni
- XXII. Si Vox Est, Canta
- XXIII. Perfer Et Obdura
- XXIV. Si Prolixa Facit Sapientem Barba
- XXV. Quisquis Amat Dictis
- XXVI. Ne Iactes
- XXVII. Vos, Qui Nulla Datis
- XXVIII. O Homo, Si Scires
- XXIX. Nemo Placet Stultis
- XXX. Vitam Quae Faciunt Beatiorem
- XXXI. Libertas Animi Cibus
- XXXII. Barbara, Celarent
- XXXIII. Vivite Felices
- XXXIV. In Terra Summus Rex
- XXXV. Cui Dolus Est Gratus
- XXXVI. Archipoeta Facit Versus
- XXXVII. Doctus Ait
- XXXVIII. Quod Vitae Sectabor Iter
- XXXIX. O, Quam Dura Premit Miseros Conditio Vitae
- XL. Sunt Tibi Vitandi Sermones
- XLI. Quid Sis, Quid Fueris
- XLII. O Mors
- XLIII. En Ego Campana
- XLIV. Nunquam Bella Bonis
- XLV. Clare Vir
- XLVI. Linquo Coax Ranis
- XLVII. Anseris Est Giga
- XLVIII. Scilicet Extremis
- XLIX. Linguarum Non Est Praestantior Ulla Latina
- L. Livide, Quare Tibi Mea Musica Displicet Uni?
- LI. Lex Et Natura
- LII. Opto Placere Bonis
- LIII. Pascitur In Vivis Livor
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Handel Arias for Cuzzoni, Durastanti, Senesino & Montagnana / Saffer · Hunt-Lieberson · Minter · Thomas · PBO · McGegan
George Frideric Handel , Nicolas McGegan , Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra , Lisa Saffer , Lorraine Hunt , Drew Minter , and David Thomas Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000007HV Release Date: 1996-07-10 |
Tracks:
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Spietati, io vi giurai (Rodelinda II, 3)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Ombre, piante, urne funeste! (Rodelinda I, 7)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Il volo cosi fido (Riccardo Primo III, 8)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Accomp.: Che sento? - Aria: Se pieta (Guilio Cesare II, 8)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Recit.: E pur cosi - Aria: Piangero (Guilio Cesare III, 3)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Da tempeste il legno infranto (Guilio Cesare III, 6)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Scoglio d'immota fronte (Scipione II, 8)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Recit.: E tale Otton? - Aria: Falsa immagine (Ottone I, 3)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Recit.: Guinge Otton? - Aria: Affanni del pensier (Ottone I, 10)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Recit.: Serve Asteria - Aria: Se non mi vuol amar (Tamerlano I, 5)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: L'Amor che per te sento (Alessandro III, 4)
- Arias For Cuzzoni: Recit.: Chi mai l'intende - Aria: Amante stravagante (Flavio I, 13)
Tracks:
- Arias For Durastanti: Recit.: Favorevol la sorte - Aria: Ogni vento (Agrippina II, 20)
- Arias For Durastanti: Pensieri, voi mi tomentate (Agrippina II, 13)
- Arias For Durastanti: Ombra cara di mia sposa (Radamisto II, 2)
- Arias For Durastanti: Recit.: Oh Dio! parte Zenobia - Aria: Qual nave (Radamisto III, 1)
- Arias For Durastanti: Accopm.: Io d'altro regno - Aria: Dimmi, crudele Amore (Muzio Scevola III, 3)
- Arias For Durastanti: Recit.: Ben a raggion - Aria: Vieni, o figlio (Ottone II, 4)
- Arias For Durastanti: Recit.: Vani sono i lamenti - Aria: Svegliatevi nel core (Guilio Cesare I, 4))
- Arias For Durastanti: Cara speme (Guilio Cesare I, 8)
- Arias For Durastanti: Recit.: Figlio non e - Aria: L'angue offenso mai riposa (Guilio Cesare II, 6)
- Arias For Durastanti: L'aure che spira (Guilio Cesare II, 11)
- Arias For Durastanti: La giustizia (Guilio Cesare III, 5)
- Arias For Durastanti: Mirami altero in volto (Arianna I, 2)
- Arias For Durastanti: Qual leon (Arianna II, 6)
Tracks:
- Arias For Senesino: Va tacito (Guilio Cesare I, 9)
- Arias For Senesino: Non e si vago e bello (Guilio Cesare I, 7)
- Arias For Senesino: Vivi, tiranno (Rodelinda III, 4)
- Arias For Senesino: Recit.: Che piu si tarda omai - Accomp.: Inumano fratel - Aria: Stille amare (Tolomeo III, 6)
- Arias For Senesino: Recit.: Nube, che il Sole - Aria: Si fugge il duol (Riccardo Primo II, 7)
- Arias For Senesino: Agitato da fiere tempeste (Riccardo Primo I, 6)
- Arias For Senesino: Accomp.: Ah! stigie larve - Arioso: Gia latra Cerbero - Accomp.: Ma la furia - Aria: Vaghe pupille (Orlando II, 11)
- Arias For Senesino: Accomp.: Gia per la man - Arioso: Gia l'ebro mio ciglio (Orlando III, 8)
- Arias For Senesino: Recit.: T'ubbidiro, crudele - Aria: Fammi combattere (Orlando I, 9)
- Arias For Senesino: Recit.: E questa la Mercede - Aria: Cielo! (Orlando II, 3)
- Arias For Senesino: Amor, nel mio penar (Flavio III, 4)
Tracks:
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Perche tanto tormento? - Aria: Se un bell'ardire (Ezio I, 6)
- Arias For Montagnana: Accomp.: Folle e colui - Aria: Nasce al bosco Ezio II, 8)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Che indegno! - Aria: Giisonar (Ezio III, 13)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Addio, principe scrupoloso - Aria: Fra l'ombre e gli orrori (Sosarme I, 5)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Quanto piu Melo - Aria: Sento il cor (Sosarme II, 7)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Tanto s'eseguira - Aria: Tiene Giove (Sosarme II, 9)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: I'll Hear No More - Aria: Pluck Root And Branch (Esther I, 3)
- Arias For Montagnana: Turn Not, O Queen (Esther II, 6)
- Arias For Montagnana: How Art Thou Fall'n (Esther III, 6)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Avampo - Aria: Ferito son d'Amore (Acis & Galatea Second Part)
- Arias For Montagnana: Piangi pur (Tolomeo II, 7)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Mira, e prendi l'esempio - Aria: Lascia Amor (Orlando I, 2)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Impari ognun da Orlando - Accomp.: Accomp.: O voi del mio poter - Aria: Sorge infausta una procella (Orlando III, 6)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Barak, My Son - Aria: Awake The Ardour (Deborah I, 3)
- Arias For Montagnana: Recit.: Thy Ardours Warm - Aria: Swift Inundation (Deborah II, 2)
- Arias For Montagnana: Tears, Such As Tender Fathers Shed (Deborah III, 2)
- Arias For Montagnana: Ah, Canst Thou But Prove Me! (Athalia II, 1)
Customer Reviews:
Do not miss it!.......2004-12-20
The concept is lavish. We see how Handel's pen was controlled by the artists' personality. David Thomas, e.g., flies down to the abyss opened by Handel's music to the possibly plutonian Montagnana -nobody, never could sing it better, "fly deeper". The ladies are lecherously "aviatic" to the opposite direction. Those who miss it miss a universe.
A must-have for Handelians.......2004-08-04
The excellent Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra provide superb accompaniment for each singer, and the sound quality is very good across all four discs. The whole comes with a very informative and exhaustive booklet containing introductory essays for each singer, as well as full libretti.
Highlights include Lisa Saffer's ravishing account of Falsa Imagine (Ottone) which Cuzzoni allegedly refused to sing as it was too plain - until Handel threatened to throw her out of the window..! Lorraine Hunt's re-enaction of Durastanti's Sesto role from Giulio Cesare sees a committed 'L'angue offenso mai riposa'. Drew Minter's coppery and languid countertenor gives delight in little-known arias from Riccardo Primo (Agitato da fiere tempeste) and Tolomeo (Stille Amare). Whilst David Thomas' cavernous bass voice ranges across opera and oratorio roles for Montagnana.
In all this is a superb collection that illustrates what a genius Handel was at characterisation and word-painting. No Handel lover will want to miss it.
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