Cavalli: Sospiri d’amore: Opera duets and arias. Venice, 1644-1666

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another Cavalli collection that offers seductive delights. — CD Review, 14th May 2016 More…

Release Date: 10th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: GCD920940
Label: Glossa
Length: 60 minutes

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Excerpt, Cavalli: Eritrea

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Eritrea: O luci belle

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Cavalli: Orimonte

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Orimonte: Qui cadè al tuo piè

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Cavalli: Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona: Né meste più

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Excerpt, Cavalli: Statira, principessa di Persia

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Statira principessa di Persia: Lassa, che fò

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Excerpt, Cavalli: Ciro

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Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Ciro: Corone ed honori

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Statira principessa di Persia

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Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Statira principessa di Persia: Vanne intrepido o mio bene

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Cavalli: Mutio Scevola

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Mutio Scevola: L'aspetto feroce

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Cavalli: Ormindo

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Ormindo, Act III: D'Amor non si quereli

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Cavalli: Scipione affricano

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Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Scipione affricano: Io misero fui Rege

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Cavalli: Egisto

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Egisto: Hor che l'aurora

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Excerpt, Cavalli: Elena

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Raffaele Pe (alto)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Elena: Io chiudo nel core

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Excerpt, Cavalli: Pompeo Magno

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Giulia Semenzato (soprano)
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Pompeo magno: Alpi gelate

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Ormindo

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Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Teatro alle Vigne, Lodi, Italy

Ormindo, Act III: Sì, sì, che questa notte

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Two bright talents to have emerged from Italy recently, Giulia Semenzato and Raffaele Pe, join forces for a dazzling collection of operatic arias and duets by that Baroque master of amorous emotions, Francesco Cavalli. Soprano and countertenor are supported by the modern master of Italian Baroque style, Claudio Cavina, who directs La Venexiana.

Working in Venice with some of the best Italian librettists around in the mid-17th century, Cavalli mined rich emotional seams in his operas conjuring up a stream of productions which enjoyed great artistic and financial success. His influence travelled far and wide, and this included Rameau, Lully, Handel and Purcell in the Baroque period alone. With five full-scale duets amongst solo arias, ariosos and recitar cantando, this new Glossa recording gloriously shows off the talents of the Venetian, Semenzato, and the Lombard, Pe, who have been gathering important stage experience in the operas of Cavalli. Space is also found for one of the vocal genres which Cavalli can lay claim to instigating – the dramatic lamento, here in the form of 'Lassa, che fò' from 'Statira'. A further intriguing picture of Cavalli and his operatic inspiration is to be found in the booklet essay written by Olivier Lexa.

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CD Review 14th May 2016

another Cavalli collection that offers seductive delights.

July 2016

Claudio Cavina and his ensemble are joined by two exceptional young soloists, soprano Giulia Semenzato and countertenor Raffaele Pe, who lead their listeners through the emotional highs and lows of some of the composer’s lesser-known operas…[this is] a recital of carefully chosen excerpts, many of which send you off in search of the complete opera

September 2016

The young Italian countertenor [Raffaele Pe] is indeed outstanding throughout, with a fine voice that shines not only in a compelling performance of the scena infernale from Scipione Affricano. La Venexiana’s accompaniments are stylish in that they employ just two violins and continuo.

18th May 2016

The performances have Cavina’s sense of slight understatement about them... in solo arias and together, Semenzato and Pe are a beguilingly smooth-toned and compelling pair of soloists, always treating the words as if they mean something dramatically, and are not merely supports for Cavalli’s elegant musical lines.

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