Handel: Italian Cantatas / Fantazyas, Colombo, Albertini, Fumagalli, Balconi

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
June 24, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Georg Friedrich Handel
    • PERFORMER
      Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini, Marta Fumagalli, Fantazyas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 24, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964782
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96478
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. La Marche

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    2. Recitative: Alla caccia, alla caccia

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    3. Aria: Foriera la tromba

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    4. Coro: Alla caccia

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    5. Arietta: Di questa selva fra dubbie vie

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    6. Coro: Alla caccia

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    7. Accompagnato: Alpestre monte

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    8. Aria: Io so ben

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    9. Recitativo: Quindi men vengo a voi

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    10. Aria: Almen dopo il fato mio

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    11. Sonata

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    12. Recitative: Tu fedel? Tu costante?

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    13. Aria: Cento belle ami Fileno

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    14. Recitative: L'occhio nero vivace

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    15. Aria: Se Licori, Fili ed io

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    16. Recitative: Ma, se non hai più

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    17. Aria: Se non ti piace amarmi

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    18. Recitative: Ma il tuo genio incostante

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    19. Aria: Si crudel, ti lasciero

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    20. Sonata: Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    21. Aria: Oh! Come chiare e belle

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    22. Recitativo: Ma quel che più d'ogn'altro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    23. Aria: Chi mi chiama?

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    24. Recitativo: Dell'arcadi foreste

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    25. Aria: Più non spero

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    26. Recitativo: Per te non più rubella

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    27. Aria: Caro Tebro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    28. Recitativo: Si, la Gloria son io

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    29. Aria: Tornami a vagheggiar

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    30. Recitativo: Tebro, tu non rispondi?

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    31. Aria: Al suon che destano

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    32. Recitativo: Di stupor, di diletto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Maria Dalia Albertini, Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    33. Aria: Io torno a sperare

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    34. Recitativo: Di si giuste speranze

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    35. Aria: Astro clemente

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Maria Dalia Albertini

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    36. Recitativo: Tebro, ti dissi il vero

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    37. Aria: Alle voci del bronzo guerriero

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi

    38. Viva, viva!

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Fantazyas

      Performer: Carlotta Colombo, Maria Dalia Albertini, Marta Fumagalli

      Conductor: Roberto Balconi


In 1706, 21-year-old Handel arrived in Italy as a prodigious celebrity, already having caught the eye and won the patronage of the Medici family in Florence. Further honors and rewards were heaped on him when he moved to Rome the following year and came under the sponsorship of the most cultured and influential of the city’s noble families. It was for them that he wrote a string of secular cantatas, on time-honored and popular themes of arcadian and amorous bliss. These Roman cantatas have received more attention from scholars and performers in recent years, but the four presented here are still relatively unfamiliar, beginning with the brief, hunting-themed Diana cacciatrice HWV79. This cantata’s striking feature is an aria with echo soprano and trumpet solo, while Alpestre monte is an anguished tale of betrayal and suicide, including a pair of ravishing arias (again for soprano). Faithfulness is once more the vexed question posed by the album’s best-known cantata, Tu fedel? Tu costante? The searing purity of Carlotta Colombo’s soprano makes her a worthy successor to distinguished early-music specialists who have taken on the work, including Emma Kirkby. Conceived on a grander scale, Olinto pastore arcade alle glorie del Tebro is scored for three solo singers, to present an allegorical discussion between the shepherd Olinto, the river Tiber and the embodiment of Glory, concerning how the humble shepherd (a veiled allusion to Handel’s patron at the time) will restore Rome to her ancient greatness. The singer and conductor Roberto Balconi founded Fantazyas in 2000 as a flexible ensemble of instruments and voices specialising in Italian music of the 17th and 18th centuries. They have toured across Europe and Japan, and here they make their debut on Brilliant Classics.