Handel - Italian Cantatas Vol.6: Olinto pastore | Glossa GCD921526

Handel - Italian Cantatas Vol.6: Olinto pastore

Label: Glossa

Cat No: GCD921526

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 11th January 2010

Contents

Artists

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)
Romina Basso (alto)
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
La Risonanza

Conductor

Fabio Bonizzoni

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Cantata HWV81 'Alpestre monte'
Cantata HWV82 'Amarilli Vezzosa'
Cantata HWV143, 'Olinto, pastore arcade' (Oh! Come chiare e belle)

Artists

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)
Romina Basso (alto)
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
La Risonanza

Conductor

Fabio Bonizzoni

About

The Accademia degli Arcadi - that thought provoking and ideas-creating literary circle set up by a group of poets, composers, aristocrats and churchmen, which championed a return to classical (and pastoral) ideals and one of whose keenest members was the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, Handel's patron in Rome - forms the aesthetic background for this sixth and penultimate release in the series of Italian cantatas by the Saxon composer which Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza are making for Glossa.

In an engrossing essay written by Carlo Vitali, which benefits from the counsels of Michael Talbot, the reader is introduced to the social and political references contained within the pastoral texts of Olinto, pastore arcade, Duello amoroso and Alpestre monte, the three Handel cantatas which make up this CD.

Bonizzoni turns again to three of his regular singers as well as counting upon the services of his exceptional first violinist, the young Swiss Leila Schayegh, an up-and-coming player whose talent is undisputed.

Recorded in Saint-Michel en Thiérache, France, June 2008.

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