Cavalli: Sospiri d'amore Giulia Semenzato

• 1 Eritrea: O luci belle 04:04
• 2 Orimonte: Qui cadè al tuo piè 03:39
• 3 Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona: Né meste più 05:23
• 4 Statira principessa di Persia: Lassa, che fò 04:36
• 5 Ciro: Corone ed honori 03:02
• 6 Statira principessa di Persia: Vanne intrepido o mio bene 03:36
• 7 Mutio Scevola: L'aspetto feroce 03:03
• 8 Ormindo, Act III: D'Amor non si quereli 03:02
• 9 Scipione affricano: Io misero fui Rege 02:31
• 10 Egisto: Hor che l'aurora 10:25
• 11 Elena: Io chiudo nel core 06:35
• 12 Pompeo magno: Alpi gelate 03:40
• 13 Ormindo, Act III: Sì, sì, che questa notte 06:28
• Total Runtime 01:00:04

Info for Cavalli: Sospiri d'amore

Two of the brightest singing talents to have emerged from Italy in recent years, Giulia Semenzato and Raffaele Pe, join forces for Sospiri d’amore, a dazzling celebration of operatic arias and duets by that Baroque master of amorous emotions, Francesco Cavalli. Soprano and countertenor are supported by a modern master of Italian Baroque style in Claudio Cavina, who directs La Venexiana (Cavina has also led the Glossa recording of Cavalli’s 1656 opera Artemisia).

Working in Venice with some of the best Italian librettists around in the mid-seventeenth century, Cavalli mined rich emotional seams concerning love in his operas – from tragedy to comedy, from profundity to frivolousness, through to sensuality and vivacity – conjuring up a stream of productions which enjoyed great artistic and financial success; his influence travelled far and wide, and even just in the immediate period of the Baroque this included Rameau, Lully and Handel and Purcell.

With five full-scale duets amongst the solo arias, ariosos and recitar cantando, this new Glossa recording gloriously shows off the talents of two artists who have been gathering important stage experience in the operas of Cavalli: the Venetian Semenzato and the Lombard Pe (who made his debut on the label with The Medici Castrato). Space is also found for one of the vocal genres which Cavalli can lay claim to instigating – the dramatic lamento, here in the form of Lassa, che fò from Statira. In addition, an intriguing picture of Cavalli and his operatic inspiration is to be found in the booklet essay written by Olivier Lexa.

Giulia Semenzato, soprano
Raffaele Pe, alto
La Venexiana:
Efix Puleo, violin
Daniela Godio, violin
Luca Moretti, viola
Antonio Papetti, cello
Alberto Lo Gatto, violone
Chiara Granata, triple harp
Gabriele Palomba, theorbo
Diego Cantalupi, theorbo
Luca Oberti, harpsichord
Claudio Cavina, direction

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Booklet for Cavalli: Sospiri d'amore