{"title":"Giovanni Battista Pergolesi","description":"\u003cp\u003e1710–1736. Italian composer. in the Neapolitan Baroque tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShort-lived but highly influential Baroque composer; Stabat Mater and La Serva Padrona are his most enduring works. Sacred and operatic output defines his legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSignature works:\u003c\/em\u003e Stabat Mater in F minor, La Serva Padrona, Miserere in C minor, Il Flaminio, Il Prigionier Superbo.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pergolesi-stabat-mater-3","title":"PERGOLESI: STABAT MATER","description":"Two of Bach's finest cantatas, both for solo alto, composed in Weimar (1714) and Leipzig (1726) respectively, are here coupled with Pergolesi's Stabat Mater of 1736, the eighteenth century's favourite sacred work. The gap between austere Lutheran piety and searing Mediterranean emotionalism might seem unbridgeable. Yet Bach so admired the composition of his Neapolitan colleague that he made his own 'parody' of it to a German text. On this recording, La Nuova Musica and it's two eminent soloists display equal mastery of both idioms.","brand":"HARMONIA MUNDI","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44908060836074,"sku":"3149020943052","price":18.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3922378-2782931.jpg?v=1778375610"},{"product_id":"pergolesi-il-prigionier-superbo-la-serva-padrona-2-cds-8007068222131","title":"Pergolesi: Il Prigionier Superbo \/ La Serva Padrona [2 CDs]","description":"\u003cp\u003eIl Prigionier Superbo was first staged on August 28, 1733. The chronicles report that the intermezzos of La Serva Padrona were so successful they overshadowed Il Prigioniero, in spite of its obvious merits. 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The two most famous of these intermezzi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, were recorded by the Boston Early Music Festival after several live performances in Bremen last fall - two caprices that were real \"hits\" even during the (very short) lifetime of their creator and still unfold their Neapolitan wit today: The story of the maid who cleverly conquers her master's heart and the turbulent \"robber's tale\" of the cunning peasant girl who puts the scoundrel on the right path to the marriage haven are available here in an irresistible double pack.","brand":"CPO","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012535734506,"sku":"0761203562220","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4384339-3398691.jpg?v=1778232168"},{"product_id":"pergolesi-stabat-mater-vivaldi-nisi-dominus-engeltjes-prjct-amsterdam","title":"Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus \/ Engeltjes, PRJCT Amsterdam","description":"\u003cp\u003ePRJCT Amsterdam and its artistic director Maarten Engeltjes present two of the greatest vocal works of the baroque era: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus. 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Livietta e Tracollo\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Ottavio Dantone, cond; Marina Comparato (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eAdriano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Lucia Cirillo (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eEmirena\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Annamaria dell’Oste (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eFarnaspe\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Nicole Heaston (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eSabina\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Stefano Ferrari (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eOsroa\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Francesca Lombardi (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eAquilio\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eMonica Bacelli (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eLivietta\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eCarlo Lepore (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eTracollo\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Accademia Bizantina \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e OPUS ARTE OA 1065D (2 DVDs); OA BD7098D (Blu-ray: 190:00 + 12:00) Live: Jesi 2010 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAdriano in Siria\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e is a Baroque opera and a prime example of the genre of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eopera seria\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, a stylized form that was to dominate Italian opera production for nearly the entire first half of the 18th century. Handel and Vivaldi both composed \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eopera seria\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e but were good enough musicians and smart enough theater professionals not to let the conventions rule them; they made numerous changes to the format to suit their own audiences. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAdriano \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003ehas a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, as many other operas of the period do. His poetry dominated the era and his librettos were set over and over again by many different composers. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAdriano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e had been written only two years previously when Giovanni Batista Pergolesi set it for Naples in 1734, and it had already been set by two other composers and would be set by many more to follow. Pergolesi was from the town of Jesi in the Italian Marches near the Adriatic coast, but was sent to Naples as a boy to study at one of the music academies. When he graduated he was talented enough to find a patron there. His entire short career (he died at 26, it is thought from tuberculosis) was spent in the orbit of the then-dominant Naples music establishment. Pergolesi wrote eight surviving works for the stage as well as his well-known \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eStabat Mater\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e and other sacred works. In 2010 the Pergolesi Spontini Foundation in Peri announced it would be helping to underwrite the production and video recording of all of Pergolesi’s operas and intermezzos, the first two of which are seen here. Interpolated between the three acts of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAdriano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e is the short comedic intermezzo \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eLivietta e Tracollo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eTo say the libretto is by Metastasio is a bit misleading, since many of the arias were rewritten by local poets to suit the particular singers. In the case of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAdriano,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e seven of the 27 musical numbers provided by Metastasio were jettisoned, and of those remaining, 10 were rewritten. The stars of the original production were the castrato Caffarelli and the soprano known as “La Droghierina,” both of whom later appeared with Handel in London. Two additional arias are cut here, which seems a bit odd if one reason for recording the work is to save it for posterity. A new critical edition of the score prepared by Dale E. Monson is used. The story involves the Roman Emperor Hadrian (yes, the same guy who built the wall in Great Britain to keep out the wild Scots from the north). He is in Antioch after defeating the Parthians and their king, Osroa. He holds captive Osroa’s daughter, Emirena, with whom he is falling in love. Farnaspe, a Parthian army leader and Emirena’s beloved, comes to plead for her release. To complicate the situation Adriano’s own intended, Sabina, shows up from Rome wondering what’s going on, and Osroa, the defeated king, is also present in disguise. After quite a bit more opera and many musical numbers, Adriano does the noble thing, pardoning all the Parthians, giving the king back his kingdom, and reuniting Farnaspe and Emirena, pledging his own love for Sabina. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThis production from the small regional opera house in Jesi is quite charming. Although Pergolesi’a opera calls for six scene changes, there is only one set here, an open area surrounded by broken columns and fallen large building stones as if in the ruins of a great castle. Chains come down from above to form a cell door when a prison scene is needed. Of the four male roles three are taken here by women; only Osroa is a male, and unusually, a tenor King! All of the six young singers seen on the video sing exceptionally well in this music, though Pergolesi apparently doesn’t really challenge the singers in these roles like Mozart or Handel were wont to do. Annamaria dell’Oste, who plays the soldier Farnaspe, suffers from rather amateurish makeup and her costume does nothing to hide her rather voluptuous female curves. The acting is a bit stilted, as one would expect from young singers, and many of the arias are stand-and-deliver, but that is partly the nature of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eopera seria\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e. The small Baroque pit band propels the action well but doesn’t show much flexibility in tempos to accommodate the singers; it just keeps chugging along. The intermezzo seen between acts of the main opera is quite charming as well. Two singers, including the only one here I’d ever heard of before, mezzo Monica Bacelli, drive the comedic action of this piece. It is not as good or funny as the only other intermezzo Pergolesi wrote, the famous \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eLa Serva Padrona\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, but it makes a refreshing break from the more serious opera. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAdriano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e is not really compelling drama; apparently most of the Italian patrons already knew the story, ignored the recitatives, and only paid attention when the most florid singing was occurring. Otherwise they chatted, ate, or played cards. Tough crowd. This production is, however, a fascinating glimpse of a genre long dead, performed and sung well in a setting not unlike one where it may have been performed nearly 300 years ago. It is much more compelling visually in the Blu-ray format. I enjoy it; you just might as well. 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Little is known of Louis Gianella (?1778-1817), a flautist who worked at La Scala in Milan, whose curious and otherwise unrecorded Concerto lugubre patently links his two compositional fields—those of the theatre (opera and ballet) and with-flute instrumental music, which includes two other flute concertos...Galway plays with his accustomed silver-tongued panache and has the benefit of the co-operation of both I Solisti Veneti and the recording engineers at their best.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e John Duarte, Gramophone [4\/1994]\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027879088362,"sku":"090266116423","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4316727-3140100.jpg?v=1778202476"},{"product_id":"pergolesi-messa-in-re-maggiore-motet-dignas-82658","title":"Pergolesi: Messa in Re Maggiore, Motet - Dignas laudes resonemus \/ Prandi","description":"New light on Pergolesi! This album sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of the great Italian composer, offering two masterpieces in their first modern edition and first recording: the Mass in D major and the mottettone Dignas Laudes. Both editions are the outcome of recent musicological research carried out by the Centro Studi Pergolesi in Milan, and show a facet of Pergolesi – his energetic and solemn character – that complements and amplifies the dramatic and introspective moods of his most renowned sacred works. This Arcana release inaugurates a collaboration with the Ghislieri Choir \u0026amp; Consort and celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the ensemble, which specialises in eighteenth-century sacred repertory and has already recorded works by Galuppi, Jommelli, Perez (Il Mattutino de’ Morti) and Handel (Handel in Rome 1707) for Sony-DHM. The soloists on this recording, conducted by Giulio Prandi, are the soprano Marlis Petersen, one of the leading sopranos on the international scene, and a quintet of young Italian singers who already perform in the most important and prestigious European venues.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  -----\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  REVIEW:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  This release of two previously unrecorded pieces is an important one. The singing and orchestral playing are excellent, although there is occasionally a little too much operatic vibrato from the two principal soloists. It is good to hear the organ making itself felt in the Messa. This is a welcome addition to the Pergolesi recording library.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  – Early Music Review","brand":"Arcana","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027921981674,"sku":"3760195734445","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3772507.jpg?v=1778248587"},{"product_id":"pergolesi-la-serva-padrona-dallara-zanello-govi-99515","title":"Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona \/ Dallara, Zanello, Govi, Regia","description":"For a work of this importance, there have been remarkably few recordings of Pergolesi’s delicious little intermezzo La Serva Padrona (The Housekeeper-Boss). Composed in 1733 to be performed between the acts of the composer’s opera seria Il Prigionier superbo, the piece ignited the splendidly hysterical Querelle des bouffons in Paris in 1752, pitting supporters of Italian opera (led by Rousseau) against fans of French opera (typified by Rameau). Perhaps more significantly, Pergolesi’s comedy seemed to indicate the direction in which the operatic winds were blowing–away from heavy duty tragedy and towards the buffo comedies of the nascent classical era. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The work is simplicity itself. Its two acts last barely forty-five minutes and contain five arias, two duets, a finale, and lots of secco recitative. No single number lasts much longer than four minutes, and several of the recitatives are bigger than the arias. The plot is rudimentary: Serpina the maid is so pushy that her bachelor employer, Uberto, decides to get married simply to get her under the control of the household’s new mistress. Serpina, seeing her chance, decides that she will marry Uberto herself, and after she arranges her own trumped up wedding to a stranger Uberto realizes that he loves her and all ends as planned.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Pergolesi’s music seems to have been designed to show off in the most schematic way all that was most appealing in the Italian school. The scoring is paired down to strings and continuo; the accompaniments are simple, the characters (only two of them) come from the middle and working classes, the action moves swiftly, and best of all, the tunes are pure vocal gold. Consider, for example, the sweetly lyrical aria, “A Serpina penserete”. Music historians, scholars, and theoreticians have never been able to wrap their brains around a style dependent on quality of melody as its primary constituent–it really is unanalyzable–and the result has always been a tendency to disparage Italian music as compared to the German or French schools, especially when those doing the analyzing happen to be German or French. Audiences, of course, have no such difficulties, hence the Querelle des bouffons and other, similar controversies throughout history.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This performance, fortunately, is quite a good one. As Uberto baritone Michele Govi sings with firm tone and he acts well with the voice; only a weakness in his lower register prevents him from being ideal. Federica Zanello’s soprano sounds a bit heavy, dare I say “matronly?” for the waspish Serpina, but she uses what she has intelligently and she is never unpleasant to listen to. The Ensemble Regia Accademia, a pick-up group drawn from various northern Italian orchestras, plays well under the direction of Marco Dallara, and the engineering sounds warm and well-balanced. 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