GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili
Roberta Invernizzi La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni
GCD 921521
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Performing artists
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Isabel Lehmann, recorder Emiliano Rodolfi. oboe & recorder David Plantier, solo violin Oliva Centurioni, violin Elena Telò, violin Gianni de Rosa, viola Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello & viola da gamba Rebecca Ferri, cello Vanni Moretto, violone
Production details
Playing time: 66’14 Recorded in Brescia, Italy, in 2005 Engineered by Adriaan Verstijnen Produced by Tini Mathot Executive producer: Carlos Céster Editorial assistant: María Díaz Art direction & design: oficina tresminutos 00:03:00 Booklet essay: Ellen T. Harris Booklet in English-Français-Deutsch-Español
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL (1685-1759)
Le Cantate Italiane, vol. IRome, 1706-1707
1-7 Tra le fiamme (Il consiglio), HWV 170
8-11 Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell’oblio), HWV 134
12-22 Il delirio amoroso (Da quel giorno fatale), HWV 90
23-28 Figlio d’alte speranze, HWV 113
About this CD
The chamber cantata flourished in Italy as a counterpart to public opera and oratorio, cultivated by aristocratic patrons for their personal enjoyment. Perhaps because of its essentially private origins, this pervasive Baroque form remains little known today. During his years in Italy (1706-1710), George Frideric Handel composed nearly 100 cantatas for a series of important patrons, but they have tended to be passed over in favour of his larger operas, oratorios, concertos and orchestral suites. The plan of La Risonanza to perform and record all of the cantatas with instrumental accompaniment (about one-third of the total) is therefore of signal importance for all music lovers, as it will bring this extraordinarily beautiful music once again to life (2006-2009).
This first disc presents four remarkable cantatas from early in Handel’s Italian period: Il delirio amoroso, Tra le fiamme, Figlio d’alte speranze and Pensieri notturni di Filli. Given the intensity, maturity and beauty of the cantatas, it is no surprise that Handel found them useful throughout his life, but now it is finally possible to bring these remarkable works out of Handel’s workroom and give them their own long-overdue hearing.
Fabio Bonizzoni’s attention on record to the music of Handel - which has, thus far, yielded seven discs devoted to the early Italian-texted cantatas - has just now had the good fortune to receive this year’s Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize for Apollo e Dafne, the final release in the present series for Glossa. This is the third time that Bonizzoni and his period-instrument ensemble La Risonanza have won this prestigious prize for their series of “Le Cantate Italiane di Handel” (previous winners were the first release, Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili and the fifth, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno); three other recordings have also featured as runners-up. [read more...]