Susanne Ryden, Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio - Stradella: Italian Arias (2011)

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Title: Stradella: Italian Arias
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical, Vocal
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 02:09:18
Total Size: 642 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Toccata in A Minor
2. È pazzia l’innamorarsi
3. Mio cor, che si fa?
4. Che mi giovan le vittorie
5. ‘Fedeltà!’ sinché spirto in petto avrò
6. Adorata libertà, dal mio core non partite
7. Parti, fuggi dal mio seno
8. Il mio core per voi, luci belle
9. Pria di scior quel dolce nodo
10. Begl'occhi, il vostro piangere
11. Se di gioie m'alletta il sereno
12. Cara e dolce libertà
13. Deh, frenate i furori
14. Non fia mai, ah no, ch'io speri
15. S'Amor m'annoda il piede
16. Le luci vezzose volgetemi, o Clori
17. Quanto è bella la mia stella
18. Ogni sguardo che tu scocchi

CD 2
1. Chi mi disse che Amor dà tormento
2. Pensier ostinato
3. Al rigor di due tiranni
4. Da Filinda aver chi può
5. Speranze smarrite
6. Il mio cor ch'è infelicissimo
7. Dell'ardore ch'il core distempra
8. Chi vuol libero il suo piè
9. Delizie, contenti
10. Chi non porta amor nel petto
11. Chi avesse visto un core
12. Dormite, occhi, dormite
13. Deh, vola, o desio
14. Avete torto, occhi miei cari
15. Ti lascerò e a poco a poco
16. Torna, Amor, dammi il mio bene
17. Destatevi, o sensi, risvegliati, onore
18. Avrò pur d'aspettar più?
19. Bel tempo, addio, son fatto amante

Performers:
Harmonices Mundi:
Susanne Rydén (soprano)
Martin Oro (countertenor)
Lisandro Abadie (baritone)
Alessandro Palmeri (cello)
Pietro Prosser (theorbo, lute, baroque guitar)
Hedwig Raffeiner & Rossella Croce (violins)
Claudio Astronio (organ, harpsichord & dir.)

Alessandro Stradella must have felt himself all the emotions expressed in the poetry of his arias , as his turbulent (love) life ended in his assassination by a jealous rival.
Stradella’s music is of the highest quality, and as such receives more and more attention nowadays. Superb performances on period instruments by Harmonices Mundi/Claudio Astronio and the great Swedish soprano Susanne Rydén.
Alessandro Stradella composed in nearly every genre - sacred and secular, and is credited with composing the first instrumental concerto grosso, and many of his operas have accompanied recitatives.Two of them also contain the earliest mad scenes. It is perhaps in his vocal works that we can hear how innovative this composer was – Stradella posessed a rare feel and insight on the texts he set.
Combined with his total mastery of counterpoint which produced extraordinary interplay between vocal and instrumental parts, he stands out among his contemporaries as a literary and musical dramatist of the highest order. The themes of the arias all concern love in its various guises – adoration, tenderness, mad passion, longing, praising beauty and physical attributes, its harshness and fickle nature, the darker side of love that leads to jealousy, rage and spite, and finally to love’s dissolution…. with perhaps a return to its embrace one day. Although the music is over 300 years old, and the names of the poets unknown, Stradella’s music speaks to us in a thoroughly modern way. This is music of emotional depth that sounds as fresh today as it did in the late 17th century.


Susanne Ryden, Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio - Stradella: Italian Arias (2011)