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Viaggio in Italia

Xavier Sabata (countertenor), Aaron Zapico (harpsichord/director), Pablo Zapico (archlute, guitar), Daniel Zapico (theorbo, tiorbino), Enrike Solinis (guitar, archlute, theorbo), Rami Alqhai (viola da gamba)

Forma Antiqua

Sabata has a smooth, mellifluous voice, phrases musically...and brings a fiery temperament to the most impassioned of these cantatas, 'Lungi da me'. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2010

Release Date: 11th Jan 2010
Catalogue No: 9101622
Label: Winter & Winter
Length: 65 minutes

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Handel: Ho fuggito, HWV 118

Work length9:09

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai, Xavier Sabata
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Aria Largo

Track length5:14

Recitativo

Track length0:52

Aria Allegro

Track length3:03

Handel: Organ Concerto in Bb Major No. 6, Op. 4, HWV 294: Andante Allegro

Work length5:28

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Handel: Lungi da me, pensier tiranno! HWV 125b

Work length10:57

Daniel Zapico, Xavier Sabata, Pablo Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Recitativo

Track length0:54

Aria

Track length2:06

Recitativo

Track length0:40

Aria

Track length2:15

Recitativo

Track length1:00

Aria

Track length4:02

Handel: Sonata in D Minor for violin and continuo, HWV359a, Op. 1 No. 1

Work length4:24

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Grave

Track length2:31

Allegro

Track length1:53

Handel: Nel dolce tempo, HWV 135b

Work length10:51

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai, Xavier Sabata
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Recitativo

Track length1:32

Aria Andante

Track length5:03

Recitativo

Track length1:28

Aria

Track length2:48

Handel: Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: Passacaille

Work length3:02

Daniel Zapico, Pablo Zapico, Enrike Solinís
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Handel: Clori, degli occhi miei, HWV 91a

Work length9:19

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai, Xavier Sabata
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Recitativo

Track length0:49

Aria Allegro

Track length3:53

Recitativo

Track length0:40

Aria

Track length3:57

Handel: Sonata in D Minor for violin and continuo, HWV359a, Op. 1 No. 1

Work length3:33

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Adagio

Track length0:59

Allegro

Track length2:34

Handel: Dolc'e pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV109a

Work length5:36

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai, Xavier Sabata
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Handel: Dolc'e pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV109a

Work length0:45

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai, Xavier Sabata
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

Handel: Dolc'e pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV109a

Work length2:28

Pablo Zapico, Daniel Zapico, Enrike Solinís, Rami Alqhai, Xavier Sabata
Forma Antiqva
Aarón Zapico

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Recorded at Fundació Auditori Palau de Congressos, Girona, Spain, May 23-26, 2009

Handel came to Italy as a promising, ambitious young composer bursting with talent, and left it as a mature composer, permanently impregnated with the light and the vocal art of Italy. Some of the great works were written during these significant years in his development (La Resurrezione, Dixit Dominus, Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, Aci, Polifemo e Galatea, Rodrigo…) His cantatas, however, are the great unknowns in his output, within which it is precisely these works that emerge as an important test bed for his music.

Winter & Winter has entrusted this task to a young ensemble, Forma Antiqva, which marks the Munich label's first collaboration with Spanish musicians. The work of the three Zapico brothers with Forma Antiqva inevitably recalls the Kuijkens from Belgium, and in the youngest generation, the Ashby sisters who form part of the excellent group Stile Antico. This first Spanish 'commitment' by Winter & Winter is completed by the participation of the young singer Xavier Sabata: he possesses everything that is needed for these cantatas: clear diction, imagination, passion, engagement and the power of conviction.Thanks to him, the epoch of Spanish 'sopranisti', who enjoyed well-deserved fame throughout Euope, and inspired many to undertake their own personal 'Viaggio in Italia', has made its way back into our consciousness.

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April 2010

Sabata has a smooth, mellifluous voice, phrases musically...and brings a fiery temperament to the most impassioned of these cantatas, 'Lungi da me'.

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