Luigi Rossi: La Lyra d’Orfeo & Arpa Davidica [3CD]

Muzyka klasyczna / Klasyczna Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 22.11.2019
opakowanie: digipack
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The latest album from Christina Pluhar and her instrumental ensemble L’Arpeggiata sheds new light on the chamber cantatas of 17th century Italian composer, Luigi Rossi. He wrote more than 300 of these works and Christina Pluhar’s new double album includes an impressive number of 21 world premiere recordings, which are the fruit of Christina Pluhar’s research among music manuscripts held in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Vatican Library.

“These cantatas are works of rare beauty,” says Pluhar, who describes Luigi Rossi as “one of the shining lights of 17th-century Italian vocal music. Supremely inventive and extremely versatile, he juxtaposed styles within a single work, often shifting from intense recitative to mellifluous song, while also venturing into daring harmonic regions.”

She has assembled a dazzling line-up of singers to perform the cantatas: sopranos Véronique Gens and Céline Scheen, mezzo-soprano Giuseppina Bridelli, and countertenors Philippe Jaroussky, Jakub Józef Orliński and Valer Sabadus.

Luigi Rossi, born in Puglia in 1597, was highly successful in his time, serving three of the most illustrious Italian dynasties – the Borghese and Barberini families in Rome and the Medici in Florence – and subsequently France’s King Louis XIV. His L'Orfeo, which received its premiere in Paris in 1647, was among the first operas to be staged in France. Rossi is also associated with the first Parisian appearances by castrato singers – their voice-type was not integral to France’s musical traditions.

Rossi had gone to Paris in 1646, where he joined the Barberinis, exiled from Rome the previous year following controversy over their handling of Papal funds. Some of their other musicians, including several castratos, also went to France with them. In Rome they had been noted for marking important occasions with commissions for masses, oratorios and operas, among them Rossi’s Palazzo incantato (Enchanted Palace), inspired by Orlando Furioso, which enjoyed a great success in 1642.

At the time, the man who wielded the most power in France was not the King – just four years old when he came to the throne in 1643 – but his godfather and Chief Minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarin, an Italian by birth, enjoyed close links with the Barberini family, which had played an important role in furthering his diplomatic career in the 1630s. He was also a great advocate of Italian style in the arts and it was thanks to him that L’Orfeo, a sumptuously scored work, was lavishly staged at the Palais-Royal before Louis XIV and his mother, Queen Anne of Austria. Rossi returned to Italy in 1650 and in due course another Italian-born composer of opera, Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-87), became the musical supremo at the court of the Sun King.

muzycy: Véronique Gens (soprano)
Céline Scheen (soprano)
Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor)
Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor)
Valer Sabadus (counter-tenor)

L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

utwory: 1. Giovanni Felice Sances: Sinfonia 02:38
2. Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato, Prologue: "Vaghi rivi" (Pittura) 02:41
3. Luigi Rossi: "Begl'occhi che dite" 05:46
4. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 2: "A l'imperio d'Amore" (Chorus, Eurydice) 02:19
5. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 2: "Mio ben" (Eurydice) 05:11
6. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 3: Dormite, begl'occhi 02:19
7. Luigi Rossi: "Questo picciolo rio" 04:51
8. Luigi Rossi: "Se dolente e flebil cetra" 05:22
9. Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato, Act 2: Ballo di fantasmi 02:30
10. Luigi Rossi: "La bella più bella il cor mi feri" 03:56
11. Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato, Act 3: Ritornello 00:58
12. Luigi Rossi: "Al soave spirar" (Lamento di Arione) 09:33
13. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 3: "Lasciate Averno" (Orfeo) 05:43
14. Luigi Rossi: "Dopo lungo penare" (192kHz)01:56
15. Luigi Rossi: "M'uccidete begl'occhi" (192kHz)03:37
16. Luigi Rossi: "Ai sospiri, al dolori" (192kHz)04:50
17. Marco Marazzoli:: "Dal cielo cader vid'io due stelle" (192kHz)07:05
18. Luigi Rossi: "Anime, voi che sete delle furie d'abisso" (192kHz)04:28
19. Luigi Rossi: "Gelosia, ch'a poco a poco nel mio cor serpendo vai" (192kHz)05:10
20. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 1: "Sol per breve momento" (Bradamante) (192kHz)03:44
21. Anonymus: "Dimmi sogno pittore" (192kHz)03:08
22. Luigi Rossi: "Tra romite contrade" (Lamento di Olimpia) (192kHz)03:08
23. Luigi Rossi: "Lascia speranza, ohimè!" (192kHz)06:40
24. Giovanni Felice Sances: "Presso l'onde tranquillo" (96kHz)05:13
25. Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato, Act 3: L'Avignone. Corrente (192kHz)01:18
26. Luigi Rossi: "Quando spiega la notte" (192kHz)05:49
27. Luigi Rossi: "Mostro con l'ali nere" (192kHz)07:28
28. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 3: Fantasia. Les Pleurs d'Orphée (192kHz)01:42
29. Luigi Rossi: "Erminia sventurata" (Lamento di Erminia) (192kHz)06:04
30. Luigi Rossi: "Io piangea presso d'un rio" (192kHz)06:47
31. Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato, Act 3: "Dove mi spingi Amor" (Pittura) (192kHz)05:40
32. Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato: Sinfonia avanti al prologo (192kHz)02:39
33. Luigi Rossi: "Taci ohimè non pianger più" (192kHz)03:43
34. Anonymus: "S'era alquanto addormentato" (192kHz)09:08
35. Luigi Rossi: L'Orfeo, Act 3: "Lagrime, dove sete ?" (Orfeo) (192kHz)03:53
36. Luigi Rossi: Passacaille del seigneur Luigi 02:19

wydano: 2019-11-22

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