Handel Cantate 03
HANDEL CANTATE 03
Beatrice Palumbo – Contrasto Armonico, Marco Vitale
Alpestre monte HWV 81
Chi rapì la pace al core HWV 90
Pensieri notturni di Filli HWV 134
Ah, che pur troppo è vero HWV 77
Non sospirar, non piangere HWV 141
Figlio d’alte speranze HWV 113
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Handel Cantate 02
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 — 1759)
Handel Cantate 02
Sonata in La minore op. 4 nr. 5 (Arcangelo Corelli)
Spande ancor a mio dispetto HWV 165
Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102a
Sonata in La maggiore op. 4 nr. 3 (Arcangelo Corelli)
Nell’africane selve HWV 136a
Cuopre tal volta il cielo HWV 98
Mitchell Sandler, bass-baritone
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and direction
ayros AY-HC02 (1-CD digipack) • EAN code: 5902768283020
Release year: 2015
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Release Sheet
Handel’s cantatas represent an important musical repertoire that until recently has been little known. Consisting of about 100 separate works, most were written over a period of a few years for private performance in Italy.
They range from musical miniatures containing only two arias connected by recitative and accompanied by continuo (a bass line typically realized by cello and harpsichord) to larger works with named characters, a dramatic story, and rich instrumental forces. Telling more often than not about the pangs of love, these are intimate works, with texts frequently written by (and sometimes about) members of the privileged audience for which they were composed. A number of Handel’s cantatas have texts by one of his important Italian patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj.
The project of Marco Vitale to record all of Handel’s cantatas is thrilling. The continuo cantatas have never been recorded in full and many have never been recorded at all. Thus, this project will bring to life largely unknown music by one of the world’s greatest composers. Further, performance all the cantatas will place the larger, instrumental works in the musical context of their creation.
This project is the continuation of the ‘Handel Complete Cantatas’ series appeared recently on the market with four volumes issued. This is the second volume presented by the ayros recording label, as continuation of the series . This CD features the bass-baritone Mitchell Sandler, who worked in other CD productions of Contrasto Armonico (Aci, Galatea e Polifeo & La Resurrezione). The CDs contains also two trio-sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli.
Recorded in Austria, in 2014.
Handel Cantate 01
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 — 1759)
Handel Cantate 01
Notte placida e cheta HWV 142 • Qualor l’egre pupille HWV 152
Ne’ tuoi lumi o bella Clori HWV 133 • Armida abbandonata (Dietro l’orme fugaci) HWV 105
Lungi n’ando Fileno HWV 128
Roberta Mameli, soprano
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and direction
ayros AY-HC01 (1-CD digipack) • EAN code: 05902768283006
Release date: May 2013
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Release Sheet
Handel’s cantatas represent an important musical repertoire that until recently has been little known. Consisting of about 100 separate works, most were written over a period of a few years for private performance in Italy.
They range from musical miniatures containing only two arias connected by recitative and accompanied by continuo (a bass line typically realized by cello and harpsichord) to larger works with named characters, a dramatic story, and rich instrumental forces. Telling more often than not about the pangs of love, these are intimate works, with texts frequently written by (and sometimes about) members of the privileged audience for which they were composed. A number of Handel’s cantatas have texts by one of his important Italian patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj.
The project of Marco Vitale to record all of Handel’s cantatas is thrilling. The continuo cantatas have never been recorded in full and many have never been recorded at all. Thus, this project will bring to life largely unknown music by one of the world’s greatest composers. Further, performance all the cantatas will place the larger, instrumental works in the musical context of their creation.
This project is the continuation of the ‘Handel Complete Cantatas’ series appeared recently on the market with four volumes issued. This is the first volume presented by the ayros recording label, as continuation of the series . This CD features the great soprano Roberta Mameli, an acclaimed specialist of the Handel repertoire and it includes the wonderful cantatas “Notte placida e cheta” and “Armida abbandonata”.
Recorded in Poland, April 2012.
Handel Complete Cantatas vol. 4
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 — 1759)
Handel Complete Cantatas vol. 4
Clori, mia bella Clori HWV 92 • Sans y penser HWV 155
Clori, vezzosa Clori HWV 95 • Pensieri notturni di Filli HWV 134
Lungi n’ando Fileno HWV 128
Stefanie True, Klaartje van Veldhoven, sopranos
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and direction
Brilliant Classics 94257 (1-CD) • EAN code: 5028421942575
Release date: November 2011
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[p]The 4th volume of Brilliant Classics’ recordings of Handel’s complete cantatas, performed by Contrasto Armonico and directed by Marco Vitale, gathers together five works that vividly illustrate the composer’s skill at setting the words of his texts, creating hitherto unknown emotional depth and nuance from modest orchestral forces.[/p]
[p]The musical setting of Clori, mia bella Clori amply displays the genius that would establish Handel as the leading operatic composer of his day, using a range of different combinations of instruments to respond to the subject of each section of the text, from grief and weeping to passionate jealousy. Similarly, in both Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell’oblio) and Lungi n’andò Fileno Handel employs striking dissonance to create a musical counterpart to the despair and suffering of the texts. By contrast, Sans y penser, Handel’s only French cantata, is a comic work, closing with a humorous musical illustration of the singer’s tribute to drinking.[/p]
[p]Handel composed over 100 secular cantatas during his stay in Italy in the early 1700s. He had several patrons; among the most generous and supportive was the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, and most of the information on the works included on this disc comes from his records.[/p]
[p]These cantatas reveal the richness of the young composer’s compositional palette, and his ability to depict the content of his texts in such a way that the listener both hears and experiences the emotions of each work. As such, they are an important foreshadowing of his later career as a celebrated operatic composer.[/p]
Handel Complete Cantatas vol. 3
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 — 1759)
Handel Complete Cantatas vol. 3
Arresta il passo (Aminta e Fillide) HWV 83
Klaartje van Veldhoven (Soprano, Aminta)
Stefanie True (Soprano, Fillide)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and direction
Brilliant Classics 94230 (1-CD) • EAN code: 5028421942308
Release date: August 2011
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[p]This dramatic cantata is one of the earliest works composed for Handel’s Italian patron Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli. It is thought that the first performance took place in 1707, around the same time as his La Resurrezione. Handel met Corelli, and had heard the music of Alessandro Scarlatti, and his compositional skills had broadened considerably as a result.[/p]
[p]In addition, his ability at realising in his music the emotion behind the words, and of creating fully rounded characters (that would later distinguish him as one of the greatest opera composers) blossomed. Although Handel had huge orchestral forces at his disposal in Italy, the scoring for this tender tale of a shepherd who eventually wins the love of a nymph playing hard to get, is small and ideal for the drama that unfolds. This recording uses Handel’s original version of the score, considered by Marco Vitale to be stronger than his revision.[/p]
[p]A unique and prestigious project: the complete cantatas by Handel. Volume 3 offers the great, large-scale Italian Cantata Aminta & Fillide, written by the young Handel in Rome, and telling the story of a shepherd winning the love of a reluctant nymph. The performances of Contrasto Armonico and Marco Vitale, bases on thorough scientific research and played on period instruments, are full of “Handelian” drama and virtuosity. The singers are absolutely wonderful, Stephanie True is one of the finest Baroque sopranos at present. Complete texts included, as well as liner notes written by Marco Vitale, explaining the background, history and sources of this wonderful music.[/p]
Handel Complete Cantatas vol. 2
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 — 1759)
Handel Complete Cantatas vol. 2
Un’alma innamorata HWV 173 • O lucenti o sereni occhi HWV 144
Del bell’idolo mio HWV 104 • Aure soavi e liete HWV 84
Tra le fiamme (Il consiglio) HWV 170
Stefanie True, soprano
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and direction
Brilliant Classics 94000 (1-CD) • EAN code: 5028421940007
Release date: December 2009
FANFARE fffff (Want List, November 2010)
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[p]Handel’s cantatas represent an important but until recently little-known area of his work. Even now newly discovered works are found and performed to much excitement in the media and among lovers of Handel’s music. They were written during his time in Rome from 1707/8, and were intended for private use. They range from miniatures consisting of two arias, recitative and a basso continuo, to large scale works with all the drama of his operas, complete with named characters, a plot, and large orchestral forces.[/p]
[p]This CD contains the remarkable ‘Tra le fiamme’, written for Cardinal Pamphilj, who provided the text. The story concerns a young man who’s heart is playing for amusement and affection ‘in the flames’, but is being deceived by ‘charm and beauty’. He considers the fact that very few people escape the flames of love safely, and without being hurt. The story then turns to the example of Daedalus and his son Icarus, and how man seldom learns from history.[/p]