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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Benedetto Ferrari: Il Sansone (2000)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Benedetto Ferrari: Il Sansone (2000)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Benedetto Ferrari: Il Sansone (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Gb | Total time: 70:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 45431 2 8 | Recorded: 1998

Er war Impresario, Librettist, Komponist und ein hervorragender Theorbenspieler – doch in erster Linie fühlte sich Benedetto Ferrari als Musiker. Um 1604 in Reggio Emilia nordwestlich von Modena geboren, studierte er in Rom. 1637 ging er das Wagnis ein, mit dem Teatro S. Cassiano das erste öffentliche Opernhaus und selbsttragende Unternehmen in Venedig zu gründen. Die Logen wurden an Adlige und reiche Bürgerfamilien verpachtet. Das Parkett war zunächst unbestuhlt, frei auch für Turniere und Umzüge; die Plätze konnte jedermann kaufen. Verlängert wurde der Zuschauerraum durch die Bühne, der Orchestergraben blieb lange versenkt. An sämtlichen Opern, die für dieses und die anderen Häuser, die plötzlich wie Pilze aus dem Boden schossen, benötigt wurden, war Ferrari als Komponist und Librettist beteiligt. Doch gelten seine Partituren größtenteils als verschollen, weshalb wir Ferrari als Komponisten lediglich aus seinen drei Büchern mit Kammerkantaten, den Musiche varie a voce sola, kannten.

Carlo Vistoli, Filippo Pantieri, Sezione Aurea - Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)

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Carlo Vistoli, Filippo Pantieri, Sezione Aurea - Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)

Carlo Vistoli, Filippo Pantieri, Sezione Aurea - Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 70:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | # A474 | Recorded: 2018

Following the success of ‘Arias for Nicolino’, a musical portrait of the celebrated castrato of Handel’s era (A427), Carlo Vistoli turns his attention to Venetian opera of the seventeenth century. The Italian countertenor – ‘a voice […] intrinsically beautiful, strong and powerful’ (Opera Magazine) – has been delving into this repertory since the beginning of his international career with specialists such as Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner. In this anthology accompanied by the ensemble Sezione Aurea, the focus is on operatic scenes and chamber music by the leading composers of the time, such as Francesco Cavalli and Claudio Monteverdi, whose famous aria ‘Sì dolce è ’l tormento’ exemplifies the linking thread of the arias in this recording: disappointed lovers.

Franco Fagioli - Canzone e Cantate: Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Frescobaldi, Ferrari, Paisiello (2010)

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Franco Fagioli - Canzone e Cantate: Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Frescobaldi, Ferrari, Paisiello (2010)

Franco Fagioli - Canzone e Cantate: Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Frescobaldi, Ferrari, Paisiello (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 60:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus | # 83.361 | Recorded: 2010

"Countertenor Franco Fagioli, an exceptional singer with an even rarer modesty, was equal to the challenge of Handel's music in all its facets – the breakneck coloratura, which he is able to propel powerfully and effortlessly in the highest range, but also the profound melancholy of 'Scherza, infida,' for which he knows how to enshroud his voice in the hues of sorrow." This is what the periodical Opernwelt wrote in the spring of 2010 about the Argentinian countertenor Franco Fagioli, who sang the title role in Handel's "Ariodante" at the Badische Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.