[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 18 February 2022
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With the 10 arias on Tormento d'amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century - often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, Sartorio and Legrenzi were active, and Naples, home to Provenzale, Caresana, Vinci and Fago. In addition to arias - two of them in world premiere recordings - the album offers five instrumental sinfonie and a traditional Neapolitan song, 'Lu cardillo', or 'The Goldfinch', a songbird closely associated with Naples. Bostridge is partnered by conductor Antonio Florio and his ensemble Cappella Neapolitana.
Sartorio: Orfeo: Sinfonia
Cavalli: Io resto solo? ... Misero, così va (from Eliogabalo)
Stradella: Soffria, sperena (from Il Corispero)
Cesti: Berenice (from Il Tito)
Cesti: L'Argia: Sinfonia
Caresana: Tien ferma Fortuna (from Le Avventure di una fede)
Provenzale: Deh rendetemi ombre care (from La Stellidaira)
Provenzale: Che speri o mio core (from Il Schiavo di sua moglie)
Legrenzi: Il Totila: Sinfonia
Vinci, Leonardo: Se il mio paterno amore (from Siroe, re di Persia)
Vinci, Leonardo: Gelido in ogni vena (from Siroe, re di Persia)
Fago: Il Faraone sommerso: Sinfonia
Fago: Nuove staggi e spaventi (from Il Faraone sommerso)
Vivaldi: Gelido in ogni vena (from Il Farnace, RV711)
Anonymous.: Lu cardillo