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2022-07-25 11:00:00
Sit back and enjoy: London Early Opera's engagingly virtuosic performance of Handel's pasticcio, Caio Fabbricio
[…] means beginning with significant scholarship to create a modern edition of the score. Not only digitising the surviving conducting score that survives in Hamburg, but building on other research in order to recognise which aria is by whom. The Cd booklet provides full information, so if you want to you can compare and contrast. Alongside composers like Hasse, Vinci, Leo, and Albinoni, whose work is a known quantity, the disc also includes arias by Antonio Pollarolo, Francesco Corselli, and Giuseppe Sellito, undoubtedly some of these are 'suitcase arias' (arie di baule), singers' speciality arias that they liked to perform in operas wherever possible, their party-pieces if you wish.George Frederic Handel (1685-1759), after Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) - Caio FabbricioPirro - Fleur BarronCaio Fabbricio - Morgan PearseSestia - Miriam AllenVolusio - Anna Gorbchyova-OgilvieBircenna - Hannah PoulsomTurio - Helen CharlstonCinea - Jess DandyLondon Early OperaBridget Cunningham (director)Recorded 1-5 September 2021, All Saints' […]
2022-05-24 19:07:55
Review: “Angelica Diabolica” – Giulia Semenzato, Soprano
In a 2022 performance of works by Handel, Pollarolo, and others, Giulia Semenzato explores the world of the Baroque aria through the lens of an epic poem. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
2022-04-25 10:19:22
Introducing Caio Fabriccio, Handel's pasticcio based on Hasse's opera
[…] Also, in an age when singers had to learn vast quantities of new music, having a few familiar arias at the ready must have been most helpful. And London audiences did not like vast quantities of recitative so the new ones (it is unlikely Handel had access to Hasse's originals) were shorter and more incisive. But using Hasse's arias from the opera and arias from other operas by Hasse plus music by Leonardo Vinci, Antonio Pollarolo, Francesco Corselli, Tomaso Albinoni, Giuseppe Sellito, Leonardo Leo and Francesco Ciampi, Handel created a new, composite work. Significantly, there are no arias by Handel, he gave the floor to the younger generation and kept his contribution to the recitatives and to the editorial. And before we dismiss such an assemblage out of hand, it should be remembered that composers like Vivaldi produced pasticcio operas of their own work. It was an accepted form. We are […]
2019-07-10 06:59:24
A real delight: Handel's Rival queen's brought to life
[…] fight between them.The new two-disc set from Bridget Cunningham and London Early Opera, Handel's Queens: Cuzzoni and Faustina from Signum Classics aims to set the record straight. With Lucy Crowe singing arias for Cuzzoni and Mary Bevan singing arias for Faustina, the programme encompasses not just the arias Handel wrote for them when they were in London (Cuzzoni from 1723 to 1728, Faustina from 1726 to 1728) but arias from throughout their careers from Carlo Pollarolo, Johann Adolph Hasse, Nicola Porpora, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Antonio Vivaldi, Pietro Torri, Leonardo Leo, Giovanni Bononcini, Leonardo Vinci, Attilio Ariosti and Maurice Greene. The advantage of the disc is the way it has cast its net widely. The two sopranos stay in London co-incided with Handel's prime and an entire disc could be assembled of his music for them, but this is a more balanced picture. We get Bononcini's Astianatte and Ariosti's Caria […]
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