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D'Alessandro: Arie dall’opera "Adelaide"

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Details

Composer
Gennaro D'Alessandro
Artist
Francesco Divito, «benedetto Marcello» Baroque Ensemble
Format
CD
Label
Tactus
Released
Oct 04, 2024
Catalog #
TC710401
UPC
8007194108217

About

This recording production rebuilds the complex events of a composition by Gennaro D'Alessandro (Neapolitan musician, pupil of Leonardo Leo) believed to be hopelessly lost after the bombing in Dresden during the Second World War: the "Ottone", opera on the libretto by Antonio Salvi accommodated by Carlo Goldoni. The opera was performed for the first time at the Grimani of S. Giovanni Grisostomo Theatre in Venice in the carnival season from December 26, 1739 to January 31, 1740 in the presence of Frederick Christian Leopold. In 2019 the musicologist Giovanni Tribuzio could finally reconstruct the Ottone thanks to several sources and witnesses. A score from the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria in Modena, partially hands down the work by Gennaro D'Alessandro (including the recitatives and ten arias). This new version was, in fact, represented with great success as "Adelaide/Adelaide, Queen of Italy" in 1744 in Prague, Leipzig and Hamburg. To this highly significant finding we have to add the discovery of a precious nucleus of arias, from the private library of composer Everett Burton Helm (now at the Lilly Library in Bloomington and the National Library of Australia in Canberra).

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Overture: Spiritoso - 03:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    Overture: Spiritoso -
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  2. 2 Overture: Largo e spiccato - 01:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    Overture: Largo e spiccato -
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  3. 3 Overture: Presto - 02:43
    Track
    3
    Title
    Overture: Presto -
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  4. 4 Act II Scene 9: Tornerò fra le catene (Matilde) (Pietro Chiarini) 08:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act II Scene 9: Tornerò fra le catene (Matilde) (Pietro Chiarini)
    Duration
    08:08
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  5. 5 Act I Scene 5: Se per me tu senti amore (Adelaide) 09:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act I Scene 5: Se per me tu senti amore (Adelaide)
    Duration
    09:08
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  6. 6 Act I Scene 8: Arrida il ciel sereno (Clodomiro) 05:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act I Scene 8: Arrida il ciel sereno (Clodomiro)
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  7. 7 Act II Scene 2: Tuona il cielo e spaventato (Adelaide) 05:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act II Scene 2: Tuona il cielo e spaventato (Adelaide)
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  8. 8 Act II Scene 4: Da te lontan, mia vita (Ottone) 08:03
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act II Scene 4: Da te lontan, mia vita (Ottone)
    Duration
    08:03
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  9. 9 Act I Scene 4: La fronda, che circonda (Idelberto) (Santo Lapis) 05:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act I Scene 4: La fronda, che circonda (Idelberto) (Santo Lapis)
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  10. 10 Act III Scene 2: T'inganni se speri (Matilde) 04:40
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act III Scene 2: T'inganni se speri (Matilde)
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  11. 11 Act III Scene 3: Stringer fra lacci un core (Adelaide) 10:54
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Stringer fra lacci un core (Adelaide)
    Duration
    10:54
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  12. 12 Act III Scene 8: Se vive amante un core (Ottone) 06:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act III Scene 8: Se vive amante un core (Ottone)
    Duration
    06:39
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano
  13. 13 Act III Scene 9: Quel basso vapore (Idelberto) (Anonymous) 05:07
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act III Scene 9: Quel basso vapore (Idelberto) (Anonymous)
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Gennaro D'Alessandro
    Performer
    Francesco Divito
    Ensemble
    Benedetto Marcello Baroque Ensemble
    Conductor
    Ettore Maria Del Romano