Handel: Cantate 03

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These poignant and articulately shaped performances of some of Handel’s least-known works are rewarding. Palumbo’s limpid singing in the intimate small-scale music is supported elegantly by the... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2019 More…

Release Date: 28th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: AYHC03
Label: ayros
Length: 62 minutes

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Handel: Alpestre monte, HWV81

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Beatrice Palumbo
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Accompagnato. Alpestre monte

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Aria. Io so ben ch’il vostro orrore

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Recitativo. Quindi men vengo a voi

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Aria. Almen dopo il fato mio

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Handel: Chi rapì la pace al core, HWV 90

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Beatrice Palumbo
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Aria. Chi rapi la pace al core?

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Recitativo. Figlio d'un fabbro, e amore

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Aria. Pupilla lucente

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Handel: Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134

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Beatrice Palumbo
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitativo. Nel dolce dell'oblio

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Aria. Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge

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Recitativo. Così fida ella vive

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Aria. Ha l’inganno il suo diletto

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Handel: Ah, che pur tropo e vero, HWV 77

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Beatrice Palumbo
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitativo. Ah, che pur troppo è vero

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Aria. Col partir la bella Clori

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Recitativo. In solitaria parte

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Aria. Care mura!

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Recitativo. Numi ingiusti spietati

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Aria. Da che perso ho la mia Clori

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Handel: Non sospirar, non piangere, HWV141

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Beatrice Palumbo
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Aria. Non sospirar, non piangere

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Recitativo. Sol potrai co' respiri

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Aria. Sì bel foco è quel che t'arde

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Handel: Figlio d'alte speranze, HWV 113

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Beatrice Palumbo
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale

Recitativo. Figlio d'alte speranze

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Aria. Troppo costa ad un’alma

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Recitativo. Era conforto il suo penar tra i fiori

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Aria. Sia guida, sia stella

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Recitativo. In così dir previde

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Aria. Brillava protetto

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Marco Vitale continues his thrilling project to record the complete cantatas by Handel, many of which have never before been recorded in their entirety or indeed at all, together with ensemble Contrasto Armonico and here featuring the Italian soprano Beatrice Palumbo. Six cantatas are presented in this third volume of the series, grouped together by the common theme of unrequited love, including "Chi rapì la pace", one of the earliest of Handel's Italian works.

Consisting of about 100 separate works, Handel's cantatas were mostly written over a period of a few years for private performance in Italy. The cantatas range from musical miniatures containing only two arias connected by recitative and accompanied by continuo (a bass line typically realized by cello and harpsichord) to larger works with named characters, a dramatic story, and rich instrumental forces. These are intimate works, with texts frequently written by (and sometimes about) members of the privileged audience for which they were composed. A number of Handel's cantatas have texts by one of his important Italian patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj.

Handel did not publish his cantatas, probably because they were written in private circumstances, but as a result they served him as a repository of inventive material throughout his life. Especially as he moved from city to city before settling for good in London, Handel chose to give his new audiences a chance to hear music he had written elsewhere.

The continuo cantatas have never been recorded in full and many have never been recorded at all. Thus, this project will bring to life largely unknown music by one of the world's greatest composers. Further, performance all the cantatas will place the larger, instrumental works in the musical context of their creation.

Marco Vitale is the co-founder and musical director of "Contrasto Armonico", baroque orchestra specialized in the performance of music in Italian style and baroque operas, using original instruments and historical performance practices. He is currently involved in the recordings of the Complete Italian Cantatas by Handel (formerly on Brilliant Classics, now on ayros), a thrilling project that will bring light on many undiscovered jewels of Handel which are neither edited nor recorded.

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October 2019

These poignant and articulately shaped performances of some of Handel’s least-known works are rewarding. Palumbo’s limpid singing in the intimate small-scale music is supported elegantly by the continuo duo of cellist Marta Semkiw and Vitale…The manifold qualities of these seldom-recorded continuo cantatas speak for themselves in these endearing performances.

Handel: Cantate 03

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