Handel: Duetti e Terzetti italiani

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sopranos Roberta Invernizzi and Silvia Frigato share the honours with tenor Krystian Adam and baritone Thomas Bauer, and they are all up to the pieces' demands…the accompaniments, meanwhile,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: GCD921517
Label: Glossa
Length: 61 minutes

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February 2016

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Handel: Quel fior che all'alba ride, HWV200

Work length7:03

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Giu nei Tartari Regni, HWV 187

Work length5:49

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Quando in calma ride il mare, HWV 191

Work length4:13

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Amor gioje mi porge, HWV 180

Work length6:47

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Caro autor di mia doglia, HWV182b

Work length8:05

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Krystian Adam (tenor)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Che vai pensando, HWV184

Work length5:00

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Silvia Frigato (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Va, speme infida, HWV 199

Work length6:58

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Tacete, ohimè, tacete!, HWV196

Work length9:20

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Silvia Frigato (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

Handel: Se tu non lasci amore, HWV 201a

Work length8:24

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Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza
Recorded: 24-27 June 2014
Recording Venue: Saint Michel en Thierache Abbey, Saint-Michel, France

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Fabio Bonizzoni returns with a further Glossa release dedicated to the chamber vocal output of Georg Friedrich Handel: here, a second volume of duets (and trios), which features the vocal talents of Roberta Invernizzi, Silvia Frigato, Thomas Bauer and Krystian Adam. Whilst Handel wrote these small-scale vocal works across his career, this new selection focuses on that astonishingly fertile brief stay that the young Saxon made in Italy from 1707-09 (when he also produced many of the cantatas which Bonizzoni has recorded to great critical success for Glossa). These sensual duets and trios are imbued with Handel’s discovery of Italian – especially the Arcadian – culture, which included him hearing and understanding the music of Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. How quickly and successfully Handel developed the chamber duet form is discussed in another of Stefano Russomanno’s detailed explorations of Handel’s music in the booklet essay. Much of the music for these duets and trios on this recording is scored for soprano and bass singers and Roberta Invernizzi, in particular, is afforded another opportunity to demonstrate her magical reaction to Handel’s responsiveness to the Italian language. Not to be outdone in this respect are also the other vocal soloists and of course the experienced continuo team from La Risonanza: Caterina Dell’Angello (cello), Evangelina Mascardi (theorbo) and Fabio Bonizzoni himself (harpsichord).

Reviews

March 2016

sopranos Roberta Invernizzi and Silvia Frigato share the honours with tenor Krystian Adam and baritone Thomas Bauer, and they are all up to the pieces' demands…the accompaniments, meanwhile, are stylishly handled by the three members of La Risonanza

February 2016

The chamber singing of all participants has pinpoint accuracy, refined poise and poetic expressiveness; there is a pleasing hint of teasing wistfulness between Bauer and Frigato in the gently affectionate Che vai pensando, folle pensier…continuo accompaniments are realised with exquisite subtlety by Caterina dell’Agnello (cello), Evangelina Mascardi (theorbo) and Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord). Beaming a searchlight into the darkest and furthest corners of Handel’s youthful Italian-period creations, these sage performances are essential fare.

24th January 2016

Here’s a new star in the making. Mineccia was a vicious-sounding Tolomeo, the villain of Alan Curtis’s recording of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, but this new album of arias, mostly written in London by Handel’s Royal Academy colleague Ariosti, reveals a voice of sensual beauty, especially in languorous arias such as Bella mia, lascia ch’io vado, from The Glorious Omens of Scipio Africanus (Vienna, 1704). His virtuosity in the bravura numbers is breathtaking, too.

13th December 2015

You can expect these days to hear sopranos of impeccable virtuosity such as Roberta Invernizzi and Silvia Frigato, though they blend and balance with exceptional skill. Rather more surprising is the equally effortless clarity and brilliance of Thomas Bauer’s baritone, matching every roulade with easy grace.

Early Music Today March/May 2016

Both Invernizzi and Frigato have sweet-toned, full soprano voices…and Bauer’s baritone gives the trio a strong foundation … underlain by the excellent continuo playing of Caterina dell’Agnello (mellow cello), Evangelina Mascardi (a lush and plummy theorbo) and Fabio Bonizzoni, crisp and elegant on the harpsichord.

20th February 2016

You can't imagine them being better performed than they are here; sopranos Roberta Invernizzi and Silvia Frigato are immaculately matched in the pair of duets they share...Handel’s settings have an extraordinary vivacity and zest, prompting smiles even when the texts are gloomy. And who needs an orchestra when Fabio Bonizoni's stripped-down, three-person La Risonanza provide such lively backing?

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