ROBERTA INVERNIZZI Handel in Italy
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni
GCD P10002
2 CDs - digipak (compilation)
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Performing artists
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano Romina Basso, alto Thomas E. Bauer, bass La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord & direction
Production details
Recorded in Saint Michel en Thiérache (France) and Chiesa di San Salvatore (Rodengo Saiano, Brescia, Italy) between 2005 and 2009 Recording engineer: Adriaan Verstijnen Recording producer: Tini Mathot Executive producer: Carlos Céster Cover photograph: Nicola Dal Maso Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet essay: Stefano Russomanno English Français Deutsch Español
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL (1685-1759)
Arias from Italian Cantatas
CD I [60:46]
from Le Cantate Italiane di Handel, Vol. 1:
Tra le fiamme, HWV 17001 Tra le fiamme02 Pien di nuovo e bel diletto03 Voli per l’aria
Pensieri notturni di Filli, HWV 13404 Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge05 Ha l’inganno
Il delirio amoroso, HWV 9006 Sonata (instr.)07 Un pensiero voli in cielo08 Per te lasciai la luce09 Lascia ormai le brune vele10 In queste amene
Figlio d’alte speranze, HWV 11311 Troppo costa12 Sia guida, sia stella13 Brillava protetto
from Le Cantate Italiane di Handel, Vol. II:
Diana cacciatrice, HWV 7914 La Marche (instr.)15 Alla caccia, alla caccia16 Foriera la tromba
CD II [61:23]
from Le Cantate Italiane di Handel, Vol. V:
Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, HWV 9601 Ouverture (instr.)02 Cor fedele03 Quell’erbetta04 Fermati! No, crudel05 Tra le fere la fera più cruda06 Un sospiretto d’un labbro pallido07 Vivere e non amar, amare e non languir
from Le Cantate Italiane di Handel, Vol. VI:
Olinto, pastore arcade, HWV 14308 Sonata (instr.)09 Oh! Come chiare e belle10 Al suon che destano11 Alle voci del bronzo guerriero
from Le Cantate Italiane di Handel, Vol. VII:
Apollo e Dafne, HWV 12212 Felicissima quest’alma13 Ardi, ardori e preghi14 Una guerra ho dentro il seno15 Come in ciel benigna stella16 Deh, lascia addolcire
Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 11017 Orrida, oscura18 Renda cenere il tiranno19 Se infelice al mondo20 Su, lacerate il seno
About this CD
For the second Glossa Portrait release the spotlight falls upon a singer who, since the 1990s, has been excelling in broad swathes of Italian Baroque music, whose qualities had remained under-performed and under-appreciated until musicians of sufficient quality and understanding of such repertoire had emerged. The soprano Roberta Invernizzi has been one such musician, gifted with an ability to master the technical, expressive and temperamental challenges set by composers of that time. Many are the recordings of the music of Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Alessandro Scarlatti graced by Invernizzi’s sparkling presence (and she has also added a scintillating theatrical verve to many of the incursions into Neapolitan opera buffa in the company of Antonio Florio).
Given Roberta Invernizzi’s notable successes on stage (and on recordings) in portraying some of Handel’s more famous female characters from the operas of his maturity, it was an inspired choice of Fabio Bonizzoni to involve the Milanese singer in his series of Le Cantate Italiane di Handel, and Invernizzi appeared on no less than five of the seven discs in that greatly-admired series. This two-disc Portrait album draws on those recordings to highlight the delicious characterizations of Invernizzi in Handel’s vivid and visceral portrayals of nymphs and goddesses such as Diana, Cloris, Amarilis, Lidia and Fili, Arcadian characters one and all but nonetheless human in personality. Alongside the opportunity to experience the “feminine” viewpoint explored through arias from Handel’s Italian Cantatas there is a chance also to enjoy with this new release the instrumental qualities of players found in Fabio Bonizzoni’s La Risonanza.
Roberta Invernizzi is very clearly one of the finest sopranos to be heard today in the Baroque - and especially the Italian Baroque - repertory, as evidenced by the beauty that she brings not only to operatic roles and vocal roles which have been essayed by many other famous singers both on record and in performance, but also by her sense of clarity in and characterization of unknown music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The rediscovery of so much Italian music is a reflection of the labour and artistry of numerous musical minds but as a kind of prima donna inter pares the Milanese soprano stands out from many others for the intensity of her approach, to the point that she is emerging as a new muse for other distinguished modern-day practitioners of the Italian Baroque such as Fabio Bonizzoni and Antonio Florio who contribute here their own thoughts on the artistry of Roberta Invernizzi, adding to the soprano’s own considerations about her musical life.[read more...]
Fabio Bonizzoni’s series, with La Risonanza, of Handel Italian cantate con stromenti for Glossa has now come to a conclusion with seven volumes recorded, but not before the group were awarded the 2010 Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize for the fifth instalment, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (with sopranos Yetzabel Arias Fernández and Roberta Invernizzi and contralto Romina Basso in the three named roles). In commending the disc the jury of the Recording Prize made the following comments, “La Risonanza produces a delightful performance that presents all of the strengths and virtues we have come to associate with their recent explorations of Handel’s music. [read more...]
In the third instalment in Fabio Bonizzoni’s survey of the secular cantatas with instrumental accompaniment composed by Georg Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy, come a quartet of works associated with the Venice-born maecenas Pietro Ottoboni – including the substantial Ero e Leandro, the libretto for which is plausibly considered to have been written by the Cardinal Ottoboni himself. As well as the seldom-performed cantata for bass, Spande ancora a mio dispetto and Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio scored for soprano solo, Bonizzoni also directs the Spanish-texted No se emendará jamás.[read more...]