Porpora Arias featuring Karina Gauvin

Porpora Arias featuring Karina Gauvin

Porpora Arias featuring Karina Gauvin
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Composer: Nicola Porpora
Conductor: Alan Curtis
Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco
Performer: Karina Gauvin
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-08-25
Music Label: ATMA Classique
Soundtracks:
  1. Adelaide, opera: Aria. Nobil onda
  2. Adelaide, opera: Aria. Non sempre invendicata
  3. Ezio, opera: Recitativo ed aria. Misera, dove son?
  4. Ezio, opera: Aria. Non son io che parlo
  5. Polifemo, opera: Rec. Acc. Aci, amato mio bene
  6. Polifemo, opera: Aria. Smanie
  7. Festa d'Imeneo, opera: Aria. Mi chiederesti meno
  8. Orlando, opera: Aria. Mentre rendo a te vita
  9. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Ouverture
  10. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Aria. Ah che langue
  11. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Aria. Il tuo dolce mormorio
  12. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Rec. Acc. Misera, e che farò?
  13. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Aria. Misera sventurata
  14. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Aria. Si caro ti consola

Music reviews of Porpora Arias featuring Karina Gauvin

Music Review: PORPORA ARIAS - A WONDERFUL SURPRISE !
Rating: 5 Stars

Porpora Arias - A Wonderful Surprise!
Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) was a composer from the Neopolitan School in Italy who wrote 48 operas and various Religious works. He was considered an excellent vocal coach having the great castrato, Farinelli as his star pupil. He competed unsuccessfully with Handel in London in 1729, and, later in life became one of Franz Joseph Haydn's early music instructors. His operas are not up to the artistic level of Handel or Vivaldi, but the music is interesting and enjoyable nonetheless. The arias on this CD exhibit interesting orchestral writing replete with creative chromatics, imaginative counterpoint, and subtle use of string suspensions. The vocal lines are driven by brilliant virtuosity and dynamics. I just wish the melodies were a bit more memorable! Since many of these arias were written for castrati (women were not allowed to sing on stage in Rome and other Italian cities at that time) the use of highly virtuosic music was required.
Karina Gauvin is one of the opera singers forging the current revolution occurring in early, middle, and late (high) Baroque opera performance. She has a razor-sharp vocal technique, steely sound production, confident and super virtuosity, and a depth of emotional understanding befitting these arias. She sounds both vulnerable and powerful in bringing out the drama of this music. This is her newest release following the many laudable Handel, Vivaldi, and Lully operas she has already recorded.
Why Porpora?-In a commercial video made by Atma for this release, Alan Curtis said he just wanted to record a different composer other than Handel-that simple! His contribution to this disc is as usual-authoritative, elegant, and clean-sounding. Curtis is one of the leaders of this current Baroque opera explosion although he's been at it for over 30 years! I like his recordings in general, but I find that he can be dramatically sterile at times. After all, this genre of opera is "show business", too. Il Complesso Barocco performs the music superlatively throughout the recording.
The CD contains two arias from Adelaide, one from Ezio, one from Polifemo, one from Imeneo, and one from Angelica. All these arias are supposedly world premier recordings. The remainder of this generous 80 minute disc contains the sinfonia and four arias from Arianna in Nazzo (1734). Arianna has been previously recorded in full but the less said about Gauvin's counterpart in that recording the better.
The highlight for me is the aria "Misera Sventurata" from Arianna. The aria is beautifully crafted with a haunting obbligato solo oboe throughout. The oboe and soprano interweave the delicate theme creating a most tender and memorable musical experience. This is Porpora worth knowing!
The sound of this disc is very good but the orchestra is a bit recessed and Gauvin a bit too forward. You have to increase the volume just slightly to get better orchestral definition - too much and Gauvin is too loud. Her recordings for Naïve and Archiv are balanced better.
The booklet reviews the arias from a musicological and historical perspective and they are complete in Italian, French, and English. The photographs of the recording sessions are a nice touch.
If you love Baroque opera, this disc is a valuable supplement to the wonderful recordings Alan Curtis and Karina Gauvin have already given us. ENJOY!
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Description of Porpora Arias featuring Karina Gauvin

Following the immense success of her CD Handel Arias, Karina Gauvin returns with
a new recording of arias, most never recorded, from the operas of Nicola Porpora
(1686-1768). The prestigious Italian baroque orchestra Il Complesso Barocco under the
direction of Alan Curtis, accompanies Madame Gauvin on this recording, which was
produced in Italy.

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