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Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - Joseph Haydn: Acide - Festa teatrale (2010)

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Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - Joseph Haydn: Acide - Festa teatrale (2010)

Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - Joseph Haydn: Acide - Festa teatrale (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 63:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-1815 | Recorded: 2009

We often think of Haydn as a composer of symphonies, string quartets and piano sonatas – that is, of instrumental music in various forms. But in fact, he probably wrote as much vocal music, in a variety of genres. The late, great oratorios are still justly famous – The Creation and The Seasons – but he also composed twelve large-scale Masses, a number of cantatas and other sacred works, as well as songs, concert arias and as many as 21 operas and Singspiele. Some of these have been lost, but the majority still exist in more or less complete form. The earliest of these is Acide, the fragment of an opera composed for the celebrations of the wedding of Count Anton Esterházy and Countess Maria Theresia Erdödy, and performed at the Esterházy residence at Eisenstadt on 11th January 1763.

Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - Joseph Haydn: Opera at Eszterháza: Arias; La Circe (2009)

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Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - Joseph Haydn: Opera at Eszterháza: Arias; La Circe (2009)

Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - Joseph Haydn: Opera at Eszterháza: Arias; La Circe (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 71:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1811 SACD | Recorded: 2008, 2009

Haydn composed more than twenty operas, mainly for the sumptuous theatre at Eszterháza, the palace of his long-time employers, the princes of Esterházy. Even so, his work in the operatic field remains largely neglected. This disc focuses on an even more closely guarded secret: the so-called 'insertion arias' that Haydn wrote for inclusion in operas by other composers. The rarely, if at all, recorded music includes Haydn's three contributions to La Circe, an opera pasticcio which combined music by several composers, and six of the surviving insertion arias. Among these is Infelice sventurata, written for an opera by Cimarosa, and one of Haydn's finest arias, here movingly performed by Miah Persson. The Swedish soprano shares the greater part of the programme with the Swiss tenor Bernard Richter.