
Two new voices join Fabio Bonizzoni's
project of recording the entirety of the cantatas with instrumental
accompaniment which Handel composed when in Italy: sopranos Nuria Rial
and Maria Grazia Schiavo enter the compan of Roberta Invernizzi,
Emanuela Galli, Raffaella Milanesi and Salvo Vitale, the singers who we
have been able to hear in the first three volumes of the collection.
In this fourth instalment (out of a total of seven CDs planned for release
up to the end of 2009), we rediscover the patronage of the Marquis
Francesco Maria Ruspoli, which lay behind the important cantata a due
entitled Aminta e Fillide; this was a work which was to provide the
composer with a veritable seam of musical material for use, as
"borrowings", in his operas Agrippina and Rinaldo - one of the reasons
perhaps why this cantata has been rarely performed and even less
recorded.
Both Aminta e Fillide and the extensive cantata for
soprano, Clori, mia bella Clori, which rounds off this new disc, had
their origins in the special environment of the Accademia degli Arcadi,
that literary society founded by a group of aristocrats, cardinals,
poets, thinkers and composers in 1690, which used to hold its meetings
in idyllic spots around Rome. Karl Böhmer's informed notes contained in
the CD booklet suggest a number of stimulating points of view about the
meaning and significance of these works for the Arcadians. (GLOSSA)
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