Serpent & Fire
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CASTELLO / CASTROVILLARI / GRAUPNER / HASSE / PURCELL / etc
Serpent & Fire
Anna Prohaska (soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 December 2016
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The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens - Dido and Cleopatra - and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from the 1640s to 1740. A firework display of arias, virtuosic and tragic by turns, written by the leading personalities of Baroque music (Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse) and composers still awaiting rediscovery such as Sartorio, Graupner and the Venetian Castrovillari. For this programme built like a tragedy around the queens of Egypt and Carthage, whom she interprets with the passion and fervour that have made her reputation, Anna Prohaska is accompanied by one of today's finest Baroque ensembles, Il Giardino Armonico; under the inspired guidance of their director Giovanni Antonini (who is also a dazzling recorder soloist in some of the arias), they keep us on the edge of our seats from start to finish.
A top star in Germany, Anna Prohaska also sings on the world's leading operatic stages, from La Scala to Covent Garden by way of Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg.
"Much of this little explored music is fascinating and Prohaska sings it with fierce intelligence, while the vibrant playing of the Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini is really special...An album fit for a queen." The Times
"Another stunner from soprano Anna Prohaska...It's all beautifully planned and paced, with riveting instrumental interludes from Il Giardino Armonico." The Observer
"The disc's principal pleasures, however, lie in the rarities, where we also find Prohaska at her most beguiling…Antonini contributes some exquisite flute and recorder obbligatos, and the orchestral playing has great fluency and charm throughout" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Recital
"a maddening, fascinating and often bewitching disc" BBC Music
Tracks:
Castello, D:
Sonata Decimaquinta à 4 libro 2
Castrovillari:
A Dio Regni, A Dio scettri (from La Cleopatra)
Cavalli:
Re de' Getuli altero (from Didone)
Graupner:
Holdestes Lispeln der spielenden Fluthen (from Dido, Königin von Karthago)
Der Himmel...Infido Cupido (from Dido, Königin von Karthago)
Handel:
Se pietà di me non senti (from Giulio Cesare)
Hasse, J A:
Morte, col fiero aspetto (from Antonio e cleopatra)
Già si desta la tempesta (from Didone Abbandonata)
Locke:
The Tempest: The First Musicke - Galliard
The Tempest: The Second Musicke - Lilk
Curtain Tune from The Tempest
Purcell:
Dido and Aeneas: Overture
Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (from Dido & Aeneas)
Dance for the Chinese Man & Woman (from The Fairy Queen, Z628)
Oft she visits (from Dido and Aeneas)
Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth (from Dido & Aeneas)
Rossi, Luigi:
Passacaille del sign[or]Louigi
Sartorio:
Non voglio amar (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
Quando voglio (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
