Handel: Complete Cantatas Volume 4

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Fillide's 'Fiamma bella' is sung enchantingly by Stefanie True (worthy winner of the 2011 London Handel Singing Competition). Klaartje van Veldhoven's voice has a few shades more bite, which... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 More…

Release Date: 5th Dec 2011
Catalogue No: 94257BR
Label: Brilliant Classics
Series: Handel Complete Cantatas
Length: 50 minutes

Handel: Clori, mia bella Cloria HWV 92

Work length14:29

$8.00

$10.40

Stefanie True (soprano)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitative: Clori, mia bella Clori

Track length0:53

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Chiari lumi

Track length2:46

$1.00

$1.30

Recitative: Temo ma pure io spero

Track length0:46

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Ne'gigli e nelle rose

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.30

Recitative: Non e pero che non molesta

Track length0:31

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Mie pupille

Track length3:53

$1.00

$1.30

Recitative: Tu, nobil alma

Track length0:32

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Di gelosia il timore

Track length2:28

$1.00

$1.30

Handel: Sans y penser, HWV 155

Work length10:01

$7.00

$9.10

Stefanie True (soprano), Klaartje van Veldhoven (soprano)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Chanson: Sans y penser (Silvie)

Track length1:17

$1.00

$1.30

Recitatif: S'il ne falloit que bien aimer pour attendrir (Tirsis)

Track length0:47

$1.00

$1.30

Air: Petite fleur brunette (Tirsis)

Track length2:10

$1.00

$1.30

Recitatif: Vous, qui m'aviez procure une amour eternelle (Tirsis)

Track length1:11

$1.00

$1.30

Air: Nos plaisirs seront peudurables (Silvie)

Track length2:39

$1.00

$1.30

Recitatif: Vous ne sauriez flatter ma peine (Silvie)

Track length0:55

$1.00

$1.30

Air: Non, non, je ne puis plus souffrir (Tirsis)

Track length1:02

$1.00

$1.30

Handel: Clori, vezzosa Clori HWV 95

Work length5:32

$4.00

$5.20

Stefanie True (soprano)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitativo: Clori, vezzosa Clori

Track length0:37

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Il bosco, il prato, il rio

Track length2:32

$1.00

$1.30

Recitativo: Se l'usignol canoro

Track length0:54

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Non e possibile o Clori amabile

Track length1:29

$1.00

$1.30

Handel: Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134

Work length6:50

$4.00

$5.20

Klaartje van Veldhoven (soprano)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitative: Nel dolce dell'oblio (Soprano)

Track length0:41

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Giacche sonno a lei dipinge (Soprano)

Track length3:02

$1.00

$1.30

Recitative: Cosi fida ella vive al cuor che adora (Soprano)

Track length0:29

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Ha l'inganno il suo diletto (Soprano)

Track length2:38

$1.00

$1.30

Handel: Lungi n’andò Fileno HWV 128

Work length13:26

$4.00

$5.20

Stefanie True (soprano)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitativo: Lungi, lungi n'ando Fileno

Track length1:19

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Si piangete, o mie pupille

Track length6:10

$1.00

$1.30

Recitativo: Ahi! M'inganno, infelice

Track length1:20

$1.00

$1.30

Aria: Dunque se il tanto piangere

Track length4:37

$1.00

$1.30

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The 4th volume of Brilliant Classics’ recordings of Handel’s complete cantatas, performed by Contrasto Armonico and directed by Marco Vitale, gathers together five works that vividly illustrate the composer’s skill at setting the words of his texts, creating hitherto unknown emotional depth and nuance from modest orchestral forces. The musical setting of Clori, mia bella Clori amply displays the genius that would establish Handel as the leading operatic composer of his day, using a range of different combinations of instruments to respond to the subject of each section of the text, from grief and weeping to passionate jealousy. Similarly, in both Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell’oblio) and Lungi n’andò Fileno Handel employs striking dissonance to create a musical counterpart to the despair and suffering of the texts. By contrast, Sans y penser, Handel’s only French cantata, is a comic work, closing with a humorous musical illustration of the singer’s tribute to drinking. Handel composed over 100 secular cantatas during his stay in Italy in the early 1700s. He had several patrons; among the most generous and supportive was the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, and most of the information on the works included on this disc comes from his records. These cantatas reveal the richness of the young composer’s compositional palette, and his ability to depict the content of his texts in such a way that the listener both hears and experiences the emotions of each work. As such, they are an important foreshadowing of his later career as a celebrated operatic composer.

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May 2012

Fillide's 'Fiamma bella' is sung enchantingly by Stefanie True (worthy winner of the 2011 London Handel Singing Competition). Klaartje van Veldhoven's voice has a few shades more bite, which is ideal for the clarity of contrast between the two characters...Contrasto Armonico's slow-burning series continues to furnish Handelian food for thought.

June 2012

There are no exaggerated cadenzas nor is there any rewriting of complete lines in the dacapos. What a relief!...A project like this can't be appreciated enough. Handel is generally considered a master in depicting human emotions, and that clearly comes to the fore in his cantatas. The performers have managed to display that quality in these recordings.

Handel: Complete Cantatas Volume 4

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