Le Cantate per il Cardinal Ottoboni (Le cantate italiane di Handel, 3)
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Composer: George Frideric HandelConductor: Fabio Bonizzoni
Orchestra: La Risonanza
Performer: Raffaella Milanesi
Performer: Salvo Vitale
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Music Label: Glossa
Soundtracks:
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Recitativo. Qual ti riveggio, oh Dio!
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Aria. Empio mare, onde crudeli
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Recitativo. Amor che, ascoso
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Aria (Poco allegro e staccato). Se la mo
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Recitativo. Questi dalla mia fronte
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Aria (Adagio e piano). Si muora, si muor
- Ero e Leandro (Qual tu riveggio), cantata for soprano, 2 oboes, strings & continuo, HWV 150: Recitativo. Ecco, gelide labbra
- Nó se emenderà jamás, cantata, HWV 140: Aria. No se emendará jamás
- Nó se emenderà jamás, cantata, HWV 140: Recitativo. Si del quereros es causa
- Nó se emenderà jamás, cantata, HWV 140: Aria. Dícente mis ojos
- Spande ancor a mio dispetto, cantata for bass, 2 violins & continuo, HWV 165: Aria. Spande ancor a mio dispetto
- Spande ancor a mio dispetto, cantata for bass, 2 violins & continuo, HWV 165: Accompagnato. Oh! Che da fiere pene
- Spande ancor a mio dispetto, cantata for bass, 2 violins & continuo, HWV 165: Aria (Andante). Da balza in balza
- Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio, cantata for soprano & ensemble, HWV 78: Sonata
- Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio, cantata for soprano & ensemble, HWV 78: Aria (Adagio). Ah! Crudelo, nel pianto mio
- Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio, cantata for soprano & ensemble, HWV 78: Recitativo. Non sdegnerai d'amar
- Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio, cantata for soprano & ensemble, HWV 78: Aria. Di quel bel ch'il ciel ti diede
- Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio, cantata for soprano & ensemble, HWV 78: Accompagnato e recitativo. Balena il cielo
- Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio, cantata for soprano & ensemble, HWV 78: Aria. Per trofei di mia costanza
Free Music Notes for Le Cantate per il Cardinal Ottoboni (Le cantate italiane di Handel, 3)
Free Music Review: Handel's quest for perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
In Rome now for nearly a year, that warm Summer of 1707 featured a 22 year old Handel at ease with Italian musical forms. The young Saxon composer sublimated the northern musical idioms upon which he'd been nurtured, and erupted in an exceptional and seemingly unending flow of Italianate melodic beauty. Unequalled in their perfection, Handel's 100 or so Italian cantatas, a third of which feature instrumental accompaniment, have been largely locked away until now. Composed for the private edification of music loving aristocrats, of whom Cardinal Ottoboni, in whose service Handel is believed to have composed the cantatas featured on this release, was probably the most famous: renowned as patron of the arts, and for his illustrious connections (his grandfather's brother became Pope Alexander VIII in 1689).
In church music, for the noteworthy double choir masses, payroll records indicate that Ottoboni employed an orchestra of twenty singers and fifty instrumentalists. His splendid orchestra featured none other than Arcangelo Corelli as first violinist. One day, when Corelli was unable to perform a difficult French overture, an impatient and enraged Handel grabbed his violin and showed him how to play the piece. Corelli's response is unknown. This superb series from Glossa, of which this release is the third and most recent, will present the instrumentally enhanced cantatas. It is not too early to call this series one of the most significant in recent memory. Here are the fruits of the young Handel's genius, brilliantly performed and lovingly presented.
Since most of these cantatas are largely unknown, we hear them with fresh ears. Those amongst us who are familiar with Handel only through his later, much grander English oratorios, with their extroverted musical vocabulary, will be stunned by the sheer delicate beauty of these Italian cantatas. Handel seems to have thoroughly absorbed the expressive musical essence of southern composers such as Monteverdi, Corelli and Scarlatti. Baroque guitars and soft, plaintive oboes accompany Raffaella Milanesi's lovely soprano as she sings of love's cruel torments and the trembling stars shining coldly above sad, lamenting shepherds. The freshness of this music fills a void in our musical souls. Bach's profound cantatas answer to our questing natures, our eternal search for divinity. Handel as a young man appears to yearn for beauty, and for an ephemeral perfection in love that remains forever just out of our reach. These cantatas represent his voyage of discovery and they are achingly, sublimely beautiful.
La Risonanza play masterfully as directed by Fabio Bonizzoni from Ton Koopman's Harpsichord. This is as perfect a disc as one could hope to find. Handel at the age of only 22, laboring in Rome that ancient Summer of 1707, when these cantatas are believed to have been composed, had already forged a host of singular ornaments in his splendid career. If the Siren call of Baroque beauty entices you, pounce upon this disc and its brethren as this superb series unfolds. Most strongly recommended.
Mike Birman
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