Passionate Baroque Arias

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Release Date: 12th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: 94071
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 52 minutes

Hasse, J A: L'Astarto

Work length2:49

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Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

L'Astarto: Sinfonia

Track length2:49

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Excerpt, Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a

Work length3:29

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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a: Una schiera di piaceri

Track length3:29

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Excerpt, Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV348

Work length2:12

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Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VII. Menuet

Track length2:12

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Veracini: Adriano in Siria

Work length5:46

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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Adriano in Siria: Quel cor che mi donasti

Track length5:46

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Excerpt, Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV348

Work length2:11

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Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: III. Allegro da capo

Track length2:11

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade RV725

Work length5:30

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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

L'Olimpiade, RV 725, Act III: Lo seguitai felice

Track length5:30

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Excerpt, Handel: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 6 in G minor, HWV324

Work length4:25

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Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6, HWV 324: I. Largo affettuoso

Track length4:25

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Excerpt, Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 2 in B flat major, HWV313

Work length2:24

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Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Concerto Grosso in B-Flat Major, Op. 3, No. 2, HWV 313: II. Andante

Track length2:24

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Excerpt, Handel: Arianna in Creta HWV 32

Work length7:39

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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Arianna in Creta, HWV 32, Act II: Son qual stanco pellegrino

Track length7:39

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Horns and Strings RV538

Work length3:03

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Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Concerto for 2 Horns in F Major, RV 538: II. Largo

Track length3:03

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Excerpt, Handel: Rodelinda

Work length3:34

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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Rodelinda, HWV 19, Act II: Aria: Ritorna, oh caro e dolce mio resoro

Track length3:34

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Excerpt, Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Work length0:36

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Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Sinfonia

Track length0:36

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo, RV727

Work length3:51

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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Cordia Ensemble
Stefano Veggetti
Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727, Act I: Aria: La speranza verdeggiando

Track length3:51

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Excerpt, Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a

Work length4:48

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Recorded: 7-9 August 2007
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche Kiens, Sudtirol, Italy

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a, Part II: Aria: Tu del Ciel ministro eletto

Track length4:48

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In 18th-century Italian opera the solo aria – a form of musical expression held in high favour by Humanist culture (owing to its close link with the word) – was the main, indeed almost the exclusive, vehicle for expressing the characters’ feelings and emotions. And the presentation of different expressive situations is surely one of the most characteristic features of Italian opera. Unlike its French counterpart, Italian opera showed little interest in any kind of realistic representation of the plot. Instead it focused on the music. Or more specifically, it concentrated on the capacity of the human voice to arouse emotions, of which love is naturally one of the most frequently encountered. As a result, the diverse facets of love (right down to its idealization or to its sacrifice for reasons of state) form the standard fare of opera plots.

It is something of a commonplace to consider 18th-century opera as little more than a battleground for the display of virtuoso singers. But it would be truer to say that the singers became the unchallenged masters of the opera stage precisely because their superb technique and vocal skills made it possible to highlight the emotions and give musical life to the ‘affects’; in other words, to the different states of mind of the various characters. It is no coincidence that the very etymology of the term ‘aria’ (from the Latin aer) is linked to the concept of a musical ‘mode’, in the sense of a ‘manner of singing’.

Passionate Baroque Arias

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