ANTONIO VIVALDI Opera Arias
Roberta InvernizziLa RisonanzaFabio Bonizzoni
GCD 922901
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Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
La Risonanza
Paolo Bacchin, trumpet Marco Panella, Alessandro Denabian, horns Nicholas Robinson, solo violin & viola d’amore Silvia Colli, Elena Telò, first violins Carlo Lazzaroni, Rossella Borsoni, Ulrike Slowik, second violins Gianni de Rosa, viola Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello Davide Nava, double bassCraig Marchitelli, archlute, theorbo & Baroque guitar
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord & direction
Production details
Total playing time 70:14 Recorded at Oratorio di Santa Croce, Mondovì, Italy, in October 2011 Engineered by Adriaan Verstijnen Produced by Tini Mathot Executive producer: Carlos Céster Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet texts: Mark Wiggins & Renato DolciniEnglish - Français - Deutsch - Italiano - Español
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ANTONIO VIVALDIOpera Arias
01 Combatta un gentil cor 4:30 [Lucio – Tito Manlio, atto II, scena XI]
02 Leggi almeno, tiranna infedele 5:40 [Caio – Ottone in villa, atto II, scena VI]
03 Da due venti un mar turbato 3:15 [Ippolita – Ercole sul Termodonte, atto II, scena I]
04 Non ti lusinghi la crudeltade 8:48 [Lucio – Tito Manlio, atto II, scena I]
05 Rete, lacci e strali adopra (Geminiano Giacomelli) 4:14 [Filindo – Dorilla in Tempe, atto II, scena IX]
06 Se garrisce la rondinella 6:11 [Ersilla – Orlando finto pazzo, atto II, scena XIV]
07 Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori 6:34 [Costanza – Griselda, atto III, scena V]
08 Fra le procelle del mar turbato 4:43 [Lucio – Tito Manlio, atto II, scena XVIII]
09 Dite, ohimè! Ditelo, al fine 2:38 [Morasto – La fida ninfa, atto III, scena X]
10 Nacque al bosco e nacque al prato 4:07 [Leocasta – Il Giustino, atto I, scena VI]
11 Tu dormi in tante pene 8:40 [Servilia – Tito Manlio, atto III, scena I]
12 Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia 3:12 [Caio – Ottone in villa, atto I, scena XI]
13 Se mai senti spirarti sul volto 10:26 [Cesare – Catone in Utica, atto II, scena IV]
14 Dopo un’orrida procella 4:27 [Ottone – Griselda, atto III, scena VI]
About this CD
A new recording from Roberta Invernizzi always betokens pleasure, but the rare occasion when the Italian soprano is placed in the spotlight – as with this new collection of opera arias by Antonio Vivaldi – promises something very special indeed. Invernizzi is known for her style and dramatic vividness in the music of the Baroque (such as on recent discs of Handel and Campra), perfectly suitable for this new rollercoaster journey of the emotions released by Glossa, courtesy of Vivaldi’s own fertile dramatic capacity to capture moods – pastoral evocations, storms at sea, hunting and even prison scenes. And a whole range of emotional high and low points – embracing anger, despair, anxiety, amorous frustration and touching intensity – are captured by Invernizzi, crowned by her electrifying performance of Dopo un’orrida procella from Griselda.
The programme offers a set of contrasts in known arias from Vivaldi’s operatic music and those which deserve to be better-known (and which surely will). Invernizzi’s interpretation is aided and abetted by La Risonanza’s fine group of instrumentalists; and, of course, there is sympathetic direction from Fabio Bonizzoni, speaking volumes for his long musical association with Roberta Invernizzi.
A wonderful opportunity to get closer to the unfolding world of Vivaldi’s dramatic music with the dazzling and alluring voice of Roberta Invernizzi.
Having entranced audiences across Europe with their performances of the music which Georg Frideric Handel wrote during his time in Italy – mainly in Rome – between 1706-9, and having also delighted record buyers with the seven-volume series of “Le Cantate Italiane di Handel”, released on Glossa, Fabio Bonizzoni and his singers and musicians of La Risonanza have now gone on to impress the jury of the 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. On October 6, at a ceremony held in The Dorchester hotel in London, the British magazine bestowed upon the Italian musicians a prestigious Gramophone Award in the Baroque Vocal category, for the final volume in the Handel series, Apollo e Dafne (a recording which contains two further cantatas, Agrippina condotta a morire and Cuopre talvolta il cielo as well as the title work). The singers on this disc were soprano Roberta Invernizzi and the two basses Thomas E. Bauer and Furio Zanasi. [read more...]