Scenes of Horror: Baroque Arias From the Shadows

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Release Date: 16th Feb 2024
Catalogue No: PN2306
Label: Perfect Noise
Length: 56 minutes

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Handel: Jephtha: Scenes of horror

Work length4:08

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade RV725: Overture

Work length5:30

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

I. Allegro

Track length2:03

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II. Andante

Track length2:17

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III. Allegro

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Handel: Scherza, infida (from Ariodante)

Work length8:58

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

Graun, C H: Montezuma (excerpts)

Work length11:01

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

Recit Qual orribil destino

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Aria Ah, d´inflessibil sorte

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Recit Ma qual rumore

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Aria Sì, corona, i tuoi trofei

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Vivaldi: Flute Concerto, Op. 10 No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 'La notte'

Work length8:32

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

I. Largo

Track length2:00

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II. Fantasmi (Presto – Largo)

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III. Presto

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IV. Il Sonno (Largo)

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V. Allegro

Track length1:57

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Ariosti: Questi ceppi, e quest' orrore (from La fede ne' tradimenti)

Work length5:56

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

Handel: Sta nell'Ircana pietrosa tana (from Alcina)

Work length5:55

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

Handel: Where shall I fly? (from Hercules)

Work length6:48

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Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Il Giratempo

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Laila Salome Fischers debut album recorded in the splendid acoustics of the Johann Sebastian Bach Saal in Koethen.

Baroque opera librettists seem to have found an impish satisfaction in thoroughly putting the heroes of their stories through the wringer before they meet their more or less glorious end or, with a bit of luck, live to celebrate the opera's happy ending. The creativity with which they maneuver their own characters into horrifying scenarios knows no bounds. Popular subjects include fighting terrible monsters, marching into seemingly hopeless battles, various forms of murder, intricate entanglements that can only lead to disaster, lifelong imprisonment, the occasional suicide... and, of course, the full Baroque-opera bounty of creative death sentences. Our poor heroes and heroines are alternately thrown to the lions (e.g. Salustia), burnt at the stake (e.g. Croesus), set adrift in the middle of the Mediterranean on a boat with no sails (e.g. Poppea), beheaded (e.g. Tito Manlio) and so on...

These scenes of horror are not only thrilling and sundry from a literary standpoint - their musical compositions are equally so.

Fear and trembling are never, but never presented in a single, monotonous tone color! Our characters often go through an emotional rollercoaster: from deepest despair to sorrow and anger, from flight to fight, from love and longing to sheer insanity. Truly, a painters box full of affects, inviting composers to go wild with musical expression. "Scenes of Horror" is a baroque cabinet of grotesqueries featuring music by Georg Friedrich Handel, Attilio Ariosti, Antonio Vivaldi and Carl Heinrich Graun. As you may imagine, the Baroque librettists were not the only ones who derived sadistic pleasure from seeing their characters suffer. We also found a devilish delight in sending Laila Salome Fischer through this program's series of nightmares.

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