Cavalli - L’Ormindo
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4829382
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 12th April 2019
Contents
Artists
John WakefieldPeter-Christoph Runge
Isabel Garcisanz
Hanneke van Bork
Jean Allister
Hugues Cuenod
Anne Howells
Jane Berbie
Federico Davia
Richard Van Allan
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Raymond LeppardWorks
L'OrmindoArtists
John WakefieldPeter-Christoph Runge
Isabel Garcisanz
Hanneke van Bork
Jean Allister
Hugues Cuenod
Anne Howells
Jane Berbie
Federico Davia
Richard Van Allan
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Raymond LeppardAbout
Through the course of L’Ormindo we follow the adventures of two pairs of lovers as they betray, deceive and flee from each other before the inevitable happy ending. A death scene in prison for the eponymous prince and his sweetheart Erisbe is marked by a grave pathos that sounds down the centuries - at least since Raymond Leppard exhumed the score from total obscurity.
Conducting L’Ormindo at the 1967 Glyndebourne Festival, Leppard spearheaded the modern revival of Cavalli’s fortunes. Critics noted the conductor’s significant revisions and rearrangements, but they were almost unanimous in their gratitude at hearing and seeing on stage the work of a pioneering opera composer for the first time, and in performances that did full justice to both music and drama. Leppard and Glyndebourne assembled a sumptuous continuo section and cast well-schooled for the time in the ornate language of seventeenth-century Venetian opera.
The popular and critical success of L’Ormindo at Glyndebourne gave rise to a sequel, with Leppard’s similarly imaginative realisation of La Calisto, which has also been reissued by Eloquence (ELQ4829382). L’Ormindo has long been unavailable and the package includes Raymond Leppard’s original note and a synopsis.
‘Leppard [...] welds all his forces together to produce one of those wonderfully integrated performances that still characterizes Glyndebourne at its best.’ - Opera magazine, April 1969
‘Every note here sounds perfectly wonderful. The Glyndebourne performers are all first-rate.’ - High Fidelity, June 1969
‘Isabel Garcisanz as the Page nearly steals the show, although Anne Howells conveys much of the heroine Erisbe’s fascination ... Hugues Cuenod as Erice manages to be funny without ever being embarrassing because of his impeccable musical taste.’ - Musical Times, August 1969
Cast:
- Ormindo: John Wakefield
- Amida: Peter-Christoph Runge
- Nerillo: Isabel Garcisanz
- Sicle: Hanneke van Bork
- Melide: Jean Allister
- Erice: Hugues Cuénod
- Erisebe: Anne Howells
- Mirinda: Jane Berbié
- Ariadeno: Federico Davia
- Osmano: Richard Van Allan
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