Christine Brandes, Paul O'Dette, Mary Springfels, Ingrid Matthews, Barbara Weiss - Stradella: Cantatas (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 68:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907192 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 68:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907192 | Recorded: 1996
Alessandro Stradella’s colourful life and eventual murder have since furnished writers with material for novels and stageworks. But he was very highly regarded as a composer during his short life, and made important contributions to several musical forms with operas, instrumental sinfonie and cantatas. This programme features five seldom performed chamber cantatas and two of his sinfonie or sonatas. Soprano Christine Brandes has a light, pleasing voice, and an athletic technique which enables her to circumnavigate most of Stradella’s often demanding vocal writing. But she is stretched to her limits, perhaps even a shade beyond, in the virtuoso, fiendishly difficult ‘Ferma il corso e torna al lido’. This is the most substantial and dramatic piece on the disc, offering the listener an insight into the emotion of princess Arianna, abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos. Here, above all, Stradella demonstrates his innovative gifts and his sturdy powers of characterisation. The ‘Sinfonie’ are well contrasted, the second and more engaging of the two being a set of variations on a spaciously conceived ‘ground’. In some respects the programme is a challenging one. Stradella does not always wear his heart on his sleeve and, as Charles Burney once remarked of CPE Bach’s music, ‘a little habit is necessary for the enjoyment of it’. A habit, nevertheless, well worth acquiring.–Nicholas Anderson
Performer:
Christine Brandes, soprano
Paul O'Dette, archlute and baroque guitar
Mary Springfels, viola da gamba
Ingrid Matthews, violin
Barbara Weiss, harpsichord and organ
Track List:
01. Fuor della Stigia sponda
02. Sinfonia No. 22
03. Non havea il sole ancora
04. Frena, ò Filli, il fiero orgoglio
05. Si salvi chi può
06. Sinfonia No. 12
07. Ferma il corso e torna al lido
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