ALBINONI Opera Arias and Instrumental Music
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Composer or Director: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Genre:
Opera
Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 09/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 56
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 88875 08192-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Zenobia, Movement: Sinfonia |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
(La) Statira, Movement: Vien con nuova orribil guerra |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
L’inconstanza schernita, Movement: Quel sembiante e quel bel volto |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
(12) Concerti a cinque, Movement: No. 5 in A minor |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Eraclea, Movement: Il mio crin su l’alto soglio |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Eraclea, Movement: Ristoro degli affliti |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Eraclea, Movement: Se premio alla costanza |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
La gare generoso, Movement: La mia gloria e l’amor mio |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
La gare generoso, Movement: La mia sorte vo’ conoscere |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
La gare generoso, Movement: Vedrem se possa mio brando invitto |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Sinfonia |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Ardelinda, Movement: Doppo tetra e tenebrosa |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Ardelinda, Movement: Se avessi più d’un core |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Ana Quintans, Soprano Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Author: David Vickers
The recital’s opening gambit is the lively sinfonia from Albinoni’s first opera Zenobia (Venice, 1694), and another splendidly rousing racket is made in the battle aria ‘Vien con nuova orribil guerra’ from Statira (Rome, 1726); Ana Quintans’s brilliant singing proves a match for the splendid trumpet obbligato and rattling timpani. In contrast, there are melodic sweetness and concertante strings in ‘Quel sembiante e quel bel volto’ from L’incostanza schernita (Venice, 1727), and a reconstructed solo flute part makes a lively contribution to ‘La mia sorte vo’ conoscere’ from Le gare generose (Venice, 1712). Lasting just under an hour, this whistle-stop tour of Albinoni’s operatic output across nearly 40 years concludes with the amiable aria di tempesta ‘Doppo tetra e tenebrosa’ from Ardelinda (Venice, 1732). There are a few musicological errors in Mario Marcarini’s booklet-note and it is not mentioned that arias attributed to Albinoni in a Neapolitan manuscript of Eraclea (Genoa, 1705) are probably spurious. Concerto de’ Cavalieri’s boldly committed playing, Di Lisa’s energetic conducting and Quintans’s stylish singing reveal Albinoni’s talents for musical invention and tunefulness. I have only one caveat: the acoustic at Rome’s Parco della Musica has a peculiarly brittle springiness.
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