Porpora: Dalla Reggia di Flora Cantatas / Grifone, Musica Perduta

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 3, 2020
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PORPORA, NICOLA
    • PERFORMER
      Musica Perduta, Grifone
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2020
    • UPC
      5028421960777
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96077
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Recitative: Dalla reggia di flora

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    2. Aria: Più della rosa e'l giglio

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    3. Recitativo: Cara s'attenta il miri

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    4. Aria: Quel leggiadretto fiore

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    5. Recitative: Povero fior di clizia

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    6. Aria, adagio: Io veggio nel tuo moto i tuoi amori

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    7. Recitavive: Sventurato che sei tu segui il sole

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    8. Aria, a tempo giusto: Tu t'aggiri al sole amato

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    9. Aria: Su collinetta erbosa

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    10. Recitative: Invaghita di lei, la dea de' fiori

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    11. Aria: Non ti basta aver ferito

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    12. Amaroso: Cieco dio foss'io quel fiore

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    13. Aria and Recitative: Foss'io quella fonte

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    14. Aria: Allegro: Io vorrei non esser io

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    15. Aria: Allegro: Se la rosa fresca e bella

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    16. Recitative: Io son quell'ape Irene

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    17. Aria: Allegro: Il mio cor nel mio piacer

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    18. Aria: Questo è il platano frondoso

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    19. Recitative: O rimembranza al mio pensier funesta

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    20. Aria: Se mai torna ò pianta amica

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    21. Aria, a tempo giusto: La Viola che languiva

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    22. Recitative: Già le sue fronde d'oro

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone

    23. Aria: Per quelle sponde

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Musica Perduta

      Performer: Cristina Grifone


A previous album of cantatas by Nicolo Porpora on Brilliant Classics attracted glowing international reviews, flinging wide open ‘a window on a world generally known only in appearance and from a superficial listening of its flourishes and ornaments, but in reality very concrete and aesthetically complex and articulated.’ (Gothic Network) Now comes a sequel, from a different, equally talented Italian early-music ensemble with an established track record on Brilliant. This album also contains several world premiere or first modern recordings, making available a wider appreciation of Porpora’s dramatic and elaborately decorative vocal idiom. Porpora’s cantatas present an embarrassment of riches to the enterprising performer and the adventurous listener. There are so many that a path must be picked, a theme chosen. For this album, Mvsica Perdvta focus their attention on the subject of flowers and plants, which seems to have inspired the composer to notable artistic heights. Flora’s Realm, ‘Il Reggio di Flore’, stands in for love in the real world, but it also presents a fertile ground for expressive metaphors to be illustrated with instrumental colours and delicately entwining vocal lines. These particular cantatas were newly edited for performance from manuscript sources based in Naples – Porpora’s home city – and Brussels and London. One of the most renowned singing teachers of his day, Porpora had an expert knowledge of the human voice, and these secular cantatas also contain moments of extraordinary pathos, underpinned by great technical skill and remarkable virtuoso élan. Mvsica Perdvta is a flexible chamber group with a particular interest in musicological research. Its Brilliant Classics albums have won praise for their stylish performances and excellent recordings. ‘Sound quality is very good indeed. These days, Brilliant's engineers reliably outperform those of so many bigger labels by some distance… An all but exemplary product.’ (Zuccari, Cello Sonatas, 94306: MusicWeb International)