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By the time that Alessandro Scarlatti was writing the two serenatas recorded here by Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza and inaugurating an exciting new series on Glossa, that celebratory cantata form, often employing allegorical characters, had been in existence for a mere half century. Scarlatti, as Bonizzoni says, “was one of the main sources of inspiration for Handel whilst the latter was in Italy, and this creates a real continuity with what we have been doing in the recent past”; notably the much-admired septet of recordings devoted to the Saxon composers Italian chamber cantatas. That sense of continuity extends to the fact that the two works on this new disc – Serenata a Filli and Le muse Urania e Clio lodano le bellezze di Filli – were written in Rome in 1706 and probably for the same patron in Francesco Maria Ruspoli who furthered Handel’s own career. Fresh from his harpsichord recording of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, Fabio Bonizzoni now, with the subtle and stylish instrumentalists of La Risonanza, is not only choosing to illuminate an unexplored genre on record, but is also shedding light on an unknown facet of Alessandro Scarlatti’s own prodigious output. Here, the serenatas are given dramatic vitality by regular partners in Bonizzoni’s artistry: sopranos Emanuela Galli and Yetzabel Arias Fernández and countertenor Martín Oro. As well as the elder Scarlatti producing examples of these courtly 'dramatic cantatas' future releases on this new series will demonstrate the quality of the contributions in the serenata form by Handel himself and also by Antonio Vivaldi.
Alessandro Scarlatti: Serenata a Filli
Sinfonia
Recitative: Tacete, tacete aure tacete (Fileno)
Aria: A ragion di fosche bende (Fileno, Niso)
Recitative: Dormite pur dormite (Niso)
Aria: Al mio cordoglio (Fileno, Niso)
Recitative: Ah no! Luci, stelle i raggi aprite (Doralbo)
Trio: Deh! fugate o luci belle (Doralbo, Fileno, Niso)
Aria: Se da Filli soave merce (Doralbo)
Recitative: Ma stolto a che mi lagno a che sospiro? (Doralbo)
Duet: Con durissimi legami (Fileno, Doralbo)
Recitative: Dunque se fian graditi (Fileno)
Trio: Se v'aggrada il mio tormento (Fileno, Niso, Doralbo)
Recitative: Lasso! che i miei sospiri (Niso)
Aria: Ombre voi d'un cor fedele (Niso)
Recitative: Dove si vidde mai (Fileno)
Aria: No, non m'ingannate (Fileno)
Aria: Quell'ardor che chiudo in petto (Doralbo)
Recitative: Folle, ma che deliro! (Doralbo, Fileno)
Trio: Svegliati o bella intanto (Doralbo, Niso, Fileno)
Alessandro Scarlatti: Le muse Urania e Clio lodano le bellezze di Filli
Introduzzione
Recitative: O mie figlie canore (Sole)
Trio: Viva, viva pur felice (Sole, Urania, Clio)
Recitative: Si, si stupor non fia (Clio)
Aria: Sua guancia vezzosa (Urania)
Recitative: Io, io che il Sole son, senza i suoi fiori (Sole)
Aria: O che serri o che disserri (Clio)
Recitative: E la bellezza ch'in lei sempre s'ammira (Sole)
Aria: Se rivolge quegl'occhi innamora, (Sole)
Recitative: Per celebrarla appien basti dir solo (Urania)
Aria: Dunque in lei sol si racchiude (Urania)
Recitative: Anzi, se virtu unita (Clio)
Aria: Questa si ch'in petto aduna (Clio)
Recitative: Cor, se invan s’affatica il nostro ingegno (Sole)
Aria: Parto o bella resta in pace (Sole)
Trio: Dormi o bella Filli (Sole, Urania, Clio)
July 2011
***
“Galli is tremulous, Fernández dark-toned and haughty, Oro smooth with a resonant bottom. The two catchiest, most sensuous arias are his...Bonizzoni directs with easy momentum and no breaks between numbers. The Baroque pitch instruments are malleable and phrase like vocalists when in dialogue with the singers.”
24th April 2011
****
“[Scarlatti] always makes a speciality of intertwining high voices. Svegliati, o bella (Awake, my beauty) is ravishingly sung by Emanuela Galli, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez and Martin Oro. Like La Risonanza’s award-winning Handel series, this is irresistible.”
Sinfonia
