Handel & A. Scarlatti - Cantatas / Piau, Lesne, Il Seminario musicale, Lesne
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-07-14
Music Label: Virgin France
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Splenda l'alba in oriente - Gerard Lesne
- La Lucrezia - Gerard Lesne
- Trio Sonata, Op. 5 No. 4 In G Major: I. Allegro - Gerard Lesne
- Trio Sonata, Op. 5 No. 4 In G Major: II. A tempo ordinario - Allegro non presto - Gerard Lesne
- Trio Sonata, Op. 5 No. 4 In G Major: III. Passacaille - Gerard Lesne
- Trio Sonata, Op. 5 No. 4 In G Major: IV. Gigue - Gerard Lesne
- Trio Sonata, Op. 5 No. 4 In G Major: V. Menuett - Gerard Lesne
- Mi palpita il cor - Gerard Lesne
- Carco sempre di gloria - Gerard Lesne
- Questo silenzio ombroso
- Questo silenzio ombroso: Dolce piange romito usignuolo
- Questo silenzio ombroso: Or mentr'io dormo
- Filli che esprime la sua fede a Fileno: Introduction
- Filli che esprime la sua fede a Fileno: Recitativo: Filen, mio caro bene
- Filli che esprime la sua fede a Fileno: Aria: Chiedi pur ai monti
- Filli che esprime la sua fede a Fileno: Recitativo: Ma se prova bastante
- Filli che esprime la sua fede a Fileno: Aria: Che ti sembra, son fedele
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Recitativo: Cleopatra, mia Reina
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Aria; Parto dunque, o mio tesoro
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Recitativo: Antonio, e qual destino
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Aria: Vo goder senza contrasto
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Recitativo: Somministriamo a Giove
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Duo: Deh, mio ben, troppo ti sprona
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Recitativo: Regina, e scritto in ciel
- Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra: Duo: Dunque, mio core
- E pur vuole il cielo e amore
- E pur vuole il cielo e amore: In si duro martire che piu penar
- Ero e Leandro: Recitativo: Leandro, anima mia
- Ero e Leandro: Aria: Non mi togliete il bene
- Ero e Leandro: Recitativo: Vieni, Leandro, a consolar
- Ero e Leandro: Aria: La speranza dice al core
- Ero e Leandro: Recitativo: Cosi fra se parlava
- Ero e Leandro: Aria: Di donna amante
- Clori et Mirtillo: Recitativo: Mentre sul carro aurato
- Clori et Mirtillo: Duo: Piu di te
- Clori et Mirtillo: Recitativo: Ma come in questi prati
- Clori et Mirtillo: Aria: No, non disperar
- Clori et Mirtillo: Recitativo: Dimmi, intatta per me
- Clori et Mirtillo: Aria: Si, per te, mio bene
- Clori et Mirtillo: Recitativo: E tu, Clori gentile
- Clori et Mirtillo: Duo: Sin che il sole spande i rai
Music reviews of Handel & A. Scarlatti - Cantatas / Piau, Lesne, Il Seminario musicale, Lesne
Music Review: Do Not Hesitate! Buy it!
Rating: 5 Stars
Scarlatti and Handel overlapped in their careers in Rome. They might well have become fierce competitors for audience and patronage, but Scarlatti moved off to Naples and Handel to England, and there's no evidence that they formed any bond or an rivalry. But think of it! The two greatest composers of the 18th Century outside Germany! It makes me yearn dyschronistically to be present at the musical Shoot-out at the OK Corral which never occurred.
At the end of the 17th Century, Pope Innocent XII prohibited stage opera in the Papal States, including Rome itself. In prompt response, composers developed the sacred oratorio, essentially stationary opera, and took it right to the steps of the altar in Romes's major churches. Wealthy music lovers also commissioned secular oratorios for salon performance. Boom times for the young Handel and the mature Scarlatti!
The cantatas on these two disks were all written on secular texts, the usual ardent love-drivel of late Renaissance madrigalists operatically updated to include recitativo and da capo arias. CD 1 features four short cantatas and a splendid instrumental sonata; the cantatas are virtuoso diplay pieces, calling on male alto Gerard Lesne to emote passionately in his recitativos and to soar gymnastically in his arias. Lesne is more than up to all demands. CD 2 is all Scarlatti, with a spectacularly operatic duet cantata dialogue between Marc Antonio and Cleopatra, sung by Lesne and soprano Sandrine Piau, and another gloriously languid duet between Hero and Leander. Love was cruel but captivating in the salons of Rome, with Scarlatti on the scene.
Sandrine Piau, Gerard Lesne, and as a bonus, violinist Fabio Biondi! The boys down by the Corral tell me "it don't get no better than that!"
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