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Cavalli: Arias & Duets From Didone, Egisto, Etc
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Cavalli: Arias & Duets From Didone, Egisto, Etc

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Details

Composer
CAVALLI
Artist
Rosita, Mario, Frisani, Gianluca, Cecchetti, Gloria, Belfiori Doro, Roberto, Banditelli, Abbondanza
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Feb 22, 2005
Catalog #
8557746
UPC
747313274628

About

Although this overview of Cavalli's music is necessarily condensed, it nonetheless succeeds in painting a meaningful picture of both the nature of opera as it was developing in Venice at the time, and the composer's own artistic and compositional talent. Cavalli was of course influenced by Monteverdi, yet he imbued his music with his own individual style, in effect setting the artistic seal on the rest of the seventeenth century. The tales told by these early operas had a lot in common with our soap story-lines. Heroes undergo the unlikeliest of hardships, become involved in unrestrained love affairs, get caught out in embarrassing situations, and so on, only for everything to be rapidly unraveled for an unambiguously happy ending, removing all concerns from the minds of a rapt audience (the operatic star system had not yet established itself at this point). There was a sense of liberation from the purely aural allusiveness of the madrigal form, as well as from the compositional and performance difficulties also associated with it, and an increasing interest in the visual impact of the sets and costumes that were soon to become the norm. Madrigal quartets, quintets and sextets were on their way out, seen as music for an aesthetic elite, to be replaced by the more approachable duets. There is perhaps an analogy to be drawn with our own times, in which the spoken and written word are being replaced by a TV videocracy, whose power is taking hold in the same way as opera did in the seventeenth century. By happy coincidence, however, Cavalli was born at precisely the right time and place, and his genius was translated into intricate, convoluted love stories and impetuous passions and rages expressed with perfect aesthetic and expressive musical symbiosis in masterly passacaglias. The Lament can be seen as a kind of condensed version of this artistic sensibility, an opera in miniature, and is therefore essential to the history of opera (cf. The three Lamenti Barocchi CDs I have recorded with Naxos). This kind of love lyric, in which languor alternates with fury, and invective is followed by immediate repentance ("What have I said? What unhappy ravings are these?") drew inspiration from both historical and contemporary episodes (Lament of the Queen of Sweden, Lament of Cinq-Mars), and then moved on to self-mockery in semi-serious laments (such as the Lament of the Castrato - whose details are indelicate in the extreme but fascinating in historical terms - or that of the Impotent Man).

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 Act I: Finale: Passata dell'armata 02:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I: Finale: Passata dell'armata
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  2. 2 Act II Scene 5: Smoderati Insolenti (Nettuno) 02:51
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act II Scene 5: Smoderati Insolenti (Nettuno)
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  3. 3 Act III Scene 6: Dormi o cara (Enea) 04:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act III Scene 6: Dormi o cara (Enea)
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  4. 4 Act III Scene 11: Porgetemi la spada (Didone) 06:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act III Scene 11: Porgetemi la spada (Didone)
    Duration
    06:34
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  5. 5 Act III: Finale: Son le tue leggi Amore (Jarba) - Godiam dunque godiamo! (Jarba, Didone) 02:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act III: Finale: Son le tue leggi Amore (Jarba) - Godiam dunque godiamo! (Jarba, Didone)
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  6. 6 Act II Scene 1: D'Hipparco (Egisto lamento) - Lasso io vivo - Ma di chi mi lamento (Egisto) 05:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: D'Hipparco (Egisto lamento) - Lasso io vivo - Ma di chi mi lamento (Egisto)
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  7. 7 Act III Scene 9: Rendetemi Euridice! (Egisto, Clori, Climene, Lidio, Hipparco) 10:47
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act III Scene 9: Rendetemi Euridice! (Egisto, Clori, Climene, Lidio, Hipparco)
    Duration
    10:47
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  8. 8 Act I Scene 8: Piante fiorite (Ormindo) 01:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act I Scene 8: Piante fiorite (Ormindo)
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  9. 9 Act I Scene 8: Fortunato mio cor (Erisbe) 00:46
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act I Scene 8: Fortunato mio cor (Erisbe)
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  10. 10 Act I Scene 8: A Dio (Erisbe, Amida, Ormindo) 00:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act I Scene 8: A Dio (Erisbe, Amida, Ormindo)
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  11. 11 Act III Scene 12: Io moro! (Erisbe, Ormindo) 01:37
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act III Scene 12: Io moro! (Erisbe, Ormindo)
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  12. 12 Act III Scene 13: Oh ritrovato padre (Ormindo) 01:18
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act III Scene 13: Oh ritrovato padre (Ormindo)
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  13. 13 Act III: Finale: D'Amor non si quereli (Erisbe, Ormindo) 01:28
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act III: Finale: D'Amor non si quereli (Erisbe, Ormindo)
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
    Performer
    Rosita Frisani, Gloria Banditelli, Mario Cecchetti
    Ensemble
    Mediterraneo Concento
    Conductor
    Sergio Vartolo
  14. 14 Act I Scene 2: Delitie e contenti (Giasone) 03:32
    Track
    14
    Title
    Act I Scene 2: Delitie e contenti (Giasone)
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  15. 15 Act I Scene 7: Son qui - Son gobbo son Demo - Linguaggio curioso (Demo, Oreste) 04:03
    Track
    15
    Title
    Act I Scene 7: Son qui - Son gobbo son Demo - Linguaggio curioso (Demo, Oreste)
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  16. 16 Act II Scene 3: Ecco il fatal castello - Ti lascio (Medea, Giasone) - Ritornello 02:56
    Track
    16
    Title
    Act II Scene 3: Ecco il fatal castello - Ti lascio (Medea, Giasone) - Ritornello
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  17. 17 Act III Scene 21: Ahi fato avverso (Giasone) - Isifile lamento: Infelice (Isifile) 09:02
    Track
    17
    Title
    Act III Scene 21: Ahi fato avverso (Giasone) - Isifile lamento: Infelice (Isifile)
    Duration
    09:02
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  18. 18 Act III Scene 21: Godi Isifile (Isifile, Medea) 01:07
    Track
    18
    Title
    Act III Scene 21: Godi Isifile (Isifile, Medea)
    Duration
    01:07
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  19. 19 Act I Scene 10: Piacere maggiore (Calisto, Diana, Linfea) 04:47
    Track
    19
    Title
    Act I Scene 10: Piacere maggiore (Calisto, Diana, Linfea)
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  20. 20 Act I Scene 11: Piangete (Calisto) 01:01
    Track
    20
    Title
    Act I Scene 11: Piangete (Calisto)
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  21. 21 Act II Scene 1: Erme e solinghe - Lucidissima face (Endimione) 03:51
    Track
    21
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: Erme e solinghe - Lucidissima face (Endimione)
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  22. 22 Act III Scene 7: Dolcissimi baci (Endimione, Diana) 02:49
    Track
    22
    Title
    Act III Scene 7: Dolcissimi baci (Endimione, Diana)
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli
  23. 23 Act III: Finale: Mio Tonante (Calisto, Mercurio, Giove) 01:19
    Track
    23
    Title
    Act III: Finale: Mio Tonante (Calisto, Mercurio, Giove)
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Francesco Cavalli