Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Flavio (2010)
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Flavio (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 671 Mb | Total time: 77:03+69:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0773(2) | Recorded: 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 671 Mb | Total time: 77:03+69:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0773(2) | Recorded: 2010
Early music specialists are still working through the wealth of Handel operas that began coming more to light in the late 20th century. Flavio, Rè di Longobardi remains one of his more obscure works. Its musical variety and richness make it a piece that deserves more attention and this excellent recording in Chandos' series of Baroque operas featuring Christian Curnyn and Early Opera Company makes a strong case for it. The plot, like that of many of Handel's operas, is convoluted to the point of being indecipherable, but each of the characters is carefully drawn. These singers invest each one with an incisive dramatic distinctiveness, and their voices are different enough that here is never in doubt as to which characters are singing. Curnyn leads a superb cast in an elegant performance. Countertenors Tim Mead and Iestyn Davies have voices that aren't particularly large, but they sing with effortless-sounding agility and lyrical attention to long lines, and because Mead is an alto and Davies a mezzo their voices are always easy to distinguish. The women, soprano Rosemary Joshua, Renata Pokupic, and contralto Hilary Summers, are all stellar, with warm, large, sensuous voices that they deploy with shapely musicality and dramatic insight. (In a disorienting voicing decision, for one pair of lovers Handel writes the women's part for a contralto and the trousers male role for mezzo-soprano.) Tenor Thomas Walker and bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams are also compelling, almost but not quite in the same league. The Early Opera Company delivers a polished performance that conveys both the score's drama and its sometimes less than serious commentary on the characters' plights.–Stephen Eddins
Performer:
Flavio, Re de' Longobardi - Tim Mead
Guido, figlio d’Ugone - Iestyn Davies
Emilia, figlia di Lotario - Rosemary Joshua
Teodata, figlia d’Ugone - Hilary Summers
Vitige, amante di Teodata - Renata Pokupić
Ugone, consigliere di Flavio - Thomas Walker
Lotario, consigliere di Flavio - Andrew Foster-Williams
Early Opera Company
Conductor - Christian Curnyn
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Flavio, Re de' Longobardi, HWV 16
CD1:
01. Overture
02. Atto I. Scena 1. Recitativo: Fra i ciechi orror' notturni (Vitige)
03. Duetto: Ricordati, mio ben (Vitige, Teodata)
04. Scena 2. Sinfonia
05. Recitativo: Lotario, al sacro nodo (Ugone, Lotario, Guido, Teodata)
06. Aria: Quanto dolci, quanto care (Emilia)
07. Scena 4. Recitativo: Son pur felice al fine (Guido)
08. Aria: Bel contento già gode quest'alma (Guido)
09. Scena 5. Recitativo: O dell'Italo soglio, eccelso nume (Ugone, Flavio, Teodata)
10. Aria: Benchè povera donzella (Teodata)
11. Scena 6. Recitativo: Della mia prole Emilia (Lotario, Flavio, Vitige)
12. Aria: Se a te vissi fedele (Lotario)
13. Scena 8. Recitativo: Vitige! (Flavio, Vitige)
14. Aria: Di quel che m'innamora (Flavio)
15. Scena 9. Recitativo: Io vo temendo, O Dio (Vitige)
16. Aria: Che bel contento (Vitige)
17. Scena 10. Recitativo: Ah! Guido, Guido! (Ugone, Guido)
18. Aria: L'armellin vita non cura (Guido)
19. Scena 12. Recitativo: Guido? Consorte? (Emilia, Guido)
20. Aria: A mante stravagante (Emilia)
21. Atto II. Scena 1. Recitativo: Al tuo cenno reale ubbidiente (Teodata, Flavio)
22. Aria: Fato tiranno e crudo (Ugone)
23. Scena 4. Recitativo: Dunque per le mie nozze (Emilia, Lotario)
24. Aria: S'egli ti chiede affetto (Lotario)
25. Scena 5. Recitativo: Che mai chiedete, o stele (Emilia, Guido)
26. Aria: Parto, sì; ma non so poi (Emilia)
27. Scena 6. Recitativo: Privarmi ancora (Guido)
28. Aria: Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi (Guido)
CD2:
01. Scena 7. Recitativo: Di Teodata assai men vago splende (Flavio)
02. Aria: Chi può mirare (Flavio)
03. Scena 8. Recitativo: Teodata! (Vitige, Teodata)
04. Aria: Con un vezzo, con un riso (Teodata)
05. Scena 9. Recitativo: Amo, e quel ben ch'adoro (Vitige)
06. Aria: Non credo instabile (Vitige)
07. Scena 10. Recitativo: Io deluso? Lotario? ed altri miete (Lotario, Guido)
08. Aria: Ma chi punir desio? (Emilia)
09. Atto III. Scena 1. Recitativo: Alma, tu non m'intendi (Flavio, Emilia, Ugone)
10. Aria: Da te parto; ma concedi (Emilia)
11. Scena 2. Recitativo: Guido, Lotario uccise? (Flavio, Vitige, Teodata)
12. Arioso e Recitativo: Corrispondi a chi ti adora (Vitige, Flavio, Teodata)
13. Aria: Starvi accanto e non languire (Flavio)
14. Recitativo: Barbara Teodata (Vitige)
15. Aria: Che colpa è la mia (Teodata)
16. Scena 3. Recitativo: Del nuovo amante, e dell'impero accesa (Vitige)
17. Aria: Sirti, scogli, tempeste, procelle (Vitige)
18. Scena 4. Accompagnato: O Guido, o mio tiranno! (Emilia)
19. Aria: Amor, nel mio penar (Guido)
20. Scena 5. Recitativo: Vitige! (Teodata, Vitige, Flavio)
21. Duetto: Deh, perdona, o dolce bene (Guido, Emilia)
22. Recitativo: E tu, Vitige, in pena (Flavio, Vitige, Teodata, Ugone, Guido)
23. Coro: Doni pace ad ogni core
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Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Flavio (2010)
