Gaffi: La forza del divino amore

Gaffi: La forza del divino amore

Gaffi: La forza del divino amore
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Composer: Alessandro Stradella
Composer: Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi
Conductor: Antonio Frige
Performer: Ensemble Pian & Fort
Performer: Leona Peleskova
Performer: Marivì Blasco
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-09-21
Music Label: Chandos
Soundtracks:
  1. I. Spiritosa E Staccata
  2. II. (Andante)
  3. III. Canzone
  4. (Presto)
  5. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Al Suon Guerrier'
  6. Aria. Divine Love: 'Gia Suona La Tromba'
  7. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Debil Seno Che Il Ciel Non Armo'
  8. Aria. St Teresa: 'Debil Seno Che Il Ciel Non Armo'
  9. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Alme Del Cielo Amiche'
  10. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Ecco Gia, Gia M'accingo'
  11. Aria. Divine Love: 'Su Schiere Guerriere'
  12. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Rodrigo, Oh Dio Rodrigo'
  13. Aria. Rodrigo: 'Senza Indugio Ecco Il Mio Piede'
  14. Recitative. Rodrigo: 'Andiam, Che Troppo Tardi'
  15. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Quanto Gioisco, O Quanto' - Rodrigo: 'Sara Sempre Mio Vanto'
  16. Aria. Divine Love: 'Su Schiere Guerrier'
  17. Recitative. Divine Love: 'L'acciaro Amor Vi Da' - Duet. St Teresa And Rodrigo: 'Si Mora Per Giesu'
  18. Aria. St Teresa: 'Piaceri Terreni'
  19. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Spine Produca Pur, Sia Di Tormenti' - Rodrigo: 'Se Per Cammin Spinoso'
  20. Duet. St Teresa And Rodrigo: 'Su Dunque Assalite'
  21. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Scatenatevi Pure A Cento, Cento' - Rodrigo: 'Assalitemi O Pene A Mille A Mille'
  22. Duet. St Teresa And Rodrigo: 'Andiamo, Andiamo, Si Si
  23. I. (Allegro)
  24. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Per Solitaria Via'
  25. Duet. St Teresa And Rodrigo: 'O Quanto Soavi'
  26. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Rodrigo Eccone Giunti'
  27. Aria. Rodrigo: 'Per Farne Sperare'
  28. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Oh Quanto Lieta Hor Fuori' - Rodrigo: 'Ricchezze, Vanita, Vi Fugge Il Piede'
  29. Duet. St Teresa And Rodrigo: 'Van Piacer / Gioie Terrene'
  30. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Gia Dier Prove Bastanti'
  31. Aria. Divine Love: 'Alme Fide Il Pie Volgete'
  32. Recitative. St Teresa: 'Per Te Su Queste Arene - Rodrigo: 'Io Di Martiri, E Pene'..
  33. Aria. Rodrigo: 'Cola Nell' Africa'
  34. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Basta, Basta non Piu'
  35. Aria. St Teresa: 'Che Posso Dir Io'
  36. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Frena Il Pianto Teresa, Il Grato Odore'
  37. Aria. Divine Love: 'Ei Non Vuol Che Ti Tolgan La Vita
  38. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Su, Su Celest Choro'
  39. Aria. St Teresa: 'Deh Pieta, Signor Merce'
  40. Recitative. Divine Love: 'Su, Su, Celeste Choro'
  41. Finale. All: 'A Intrecciar Le Corone Odorose'

Music reviews of Gaffi: La forza del divino amore

Music Review: The Competition Was Stiff ...
Rating: 5 Stars

... for composers in Rome circa 1690, with Corelli and Scarlatti, Panini and Panetone and all them guys vying for the Arcadian attentions of padrones like Ottoboni, Pamphili, Cybo, and Ruspoli. Bernardo Gaffi must have been skillful indeed to have made the cut as a composer of innovative works for keyboard and of at least eight 'chamber' oratorios that were performed in Modena, Venice, and Vienna, as well as Rome. Either his inspiration or his patronage dried up, however, after 1700, though he lived to 1744. Perhaps it was the fresh face of Georg Friedrich Handel, the boy wonder of 1700-1710 or so, than snatched Pamphili and Co from poor Gaffi. It would be silly to suggest that Gaffi was a genius of the magnitude of Handel, and quite possibly he wasn't as adaptable as Scarlatti to changes in musical taste. This dramatic oratorio for three voices, with obbligato trumpet and violin, is a sprightly, inventive, expressive piece of music nonetheless, worthy of just the sort of excellent performance it receives from Ensemble Pian & Forte.

"La Forza del divino amore" tells of an 'imagined' episode in the life of Santa Teresa of Avila, the Carmelite mystic. The characters of Teresa, her brother Rodrigo, and the allegorical figure of Divine Love. Teresa is determined to go as a missionary to Africa, in full expectation of martyrdom, but Divine Love persuades her that her true mission is in Spain. As you might expect, such a dialogue provides ample musical grounds for agony and ecstasy. The use of a trumpet in a chamber oratorio, musicologists have declared, was 'unknown' in Gaffi's time, but clearly Signore gaffi was reading musicological journals. His trumpet obbligato is brilliantly idiomatic and rousing, affording baroque trumpeter Gabriele Cassone a grand opportunity to prove that a natural valveless horn CAN be played fluently and tunefully. In fact, the trumpet "fireworks" are worth the price of the CD alone. But the voices of sopranos Leona Pelekovska nd Marivi Blasco are just as agile, expressive, and well-tuned as the trumpet, and basso Sergio Foresti has a timbre that makes those notes below the bass clef as beautiful as birdsong.

You can get an idea of this CD from the samples. Buy it for the novelty, if you will, but I predict you'll appreciate it for the workmanship of the music and the brilliance of the performance.
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