Porpora - L’aureo serto | Challenge Classics CC72924

Porpora - L’aureo serto

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72924

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 21st October 2022

Contents

Works

Porpora, Nicola

David e Besabea
» M'hai sprezzato
Deianira, Iole ed Ercole
» Ho gia la mente ingombra...
» Idre, arpie, draghi e leoni
» Ombre oscure
» Overture
Il Gedeone
» O Figlio, o Gedeone...
» O beato, fortunato
» Sinfonia (Part 2)
Il martirio di San Giovanni Nepomuceno
» Agitato da piu venti
» Cura che di timor ti nutri e cresci...
» L'aureo serto e il ricco manto
L'Agrippina
» Insomma il far l'amore...
» Vuole il musico la donna
L'Angelica
» Folle chi sa sperar
» Oh strani agli occhi nostri...
Poro
» Del rivale all'aita...
» E ver che all'amo intorno

Artists

Sergio Foresti (baritone)
Abchordis Ensemble

Conductor

Andrea Buccarella

Works

Porpora, Nicola

David e Besabea
» M'hai sprezzato
Deianira, Iole ed Ercole
» Ho gia la mente ingombra...
» Idre, arpie, draghi e leoni
» Ombre oscure
» Overture
Il Gedeone
» O Figlio, o Gedeone...
» O beato, fortunato
» Sinfonia (Part 2)
Il martirio di San Giovanni Nepomuceno
» Agitato da piu venti
» Cura che di timor ti nutri e cresci...
» L'aureo serto e il ricco manto
L'Agrippina
» Insomma il far l'amore...
» Vuole il musico la donna
L'Angelica
» Folle chi sa sperar
» Oh strani agli occhi nostri...
Poro
» Del rivale all'aita...
» E ver che all'amo intorno

Artists

Sergio Foresti (baritone)
Abchordis Ensemble

Conductor

Andrea Buccarella

About

The third disc by baritone Sergio Foresti on Challenge Classics is devoted to the arias composed by Nicola Porpora.

With a selection of arias of different moods and characters that ceaselessly tantalise and intrigue the listener, this is a disc you can listen to with constant pleasure and commitment from start to end, thanks also to the orchestral accompaniment (and overtures) and the impeccable recording and production.

Born in Naples in 1686 and deceased in the same city in 1768, Nicola Antonio Porpora is today considered as one of the most important composers of his generation, as well as a fundamental point of reference for the history of eighteenth-century music.

That Porpora was an excellent writer for the human voice and an excellent singing teacher is a fact that seems to have never been forgotten over the centuries that separate us from his artistic and biographical exploit.

For Porpora and his singers vocal virtuosity was primarily a fundamental linguistic tool to communicate ideas, and not merely a display of circus tricks. There is obsessive attention to detail, an intellectually sophisticated vision of the melodic line and its relationship with the accompaniment.

Porpora is part of that generation of Neapolitan composers of birth or formation (like Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo) who were largely responsible for a series of important stylistic innovations that deeply affected the contemporary Italian opera scene. These innovations were clearly exported to the international scene from the mid-1720s and had their peak in the 1740s.

The compilation on this CD offers the listener, in this context, an interesting benefit. It combines arias of very different characters and chronological and geographical origins. They are written for different performers in different contexts, and are part of works that belong to different genres. They are the perfect tools to show the high value of a singer as well as the composer's ability to allure the listener's ears to bewitch the listener's intellect.

Reviews

Foresti sings […] with real poignancy and depth.
Opera
This is a welcome additional to the catalogue not only because it adds to the modest number of recordings of music by this prolific composer, but also in casting a less usual slant upon the world of Baroque opera and vocal music via this repertoire for bass voice
MusicWeb International

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