Alessandro Stradella Consort, Esteban Velardi - Stradella: Moro per amore (1993)
Artist: Alessandro Stradella Consort, Esteban Velardi
Title: Stradella: Moro per amore
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Bongiovanni
Genre: Classical
Quality: APE (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 03:24:23
Total Size: 949 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: Stradella: Moro per amore
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Bongiovanni
Genre: Classical
Quality: APE (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 03:24:23
Total Size: 949 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD 1:
Atto primo
1. Il Moro per Amore, opera: Sinfonia avanti l'Opera, 1 mvt.
2. Aria: Tornate, omai tornate
3. Aria: Un cor ch'è libero
4. Semplicetta Regina
5. Aria: Se il bel fior di verde età
6. E da voi contrario affé
7. Perché d'un bianco crin
8. Aria: Lasciami in pace, Amor
9. Ma le querele mie
10. Aria: Non ho forza che resista
11. Aria: Stelle tiranne, e che volete più
12. I cenni miei Feraspe
13. Aria: Accingetevi, preparatevi
14. Ma la superba Eurinds
15. Aria: Su, persieri, all difesa
16. Amorosa impazienza
17. Aria: Luci care, i vostri sguardi
18. Mirami in volto o bella
19. Duetto: Mai non deve/Deve spesso l'onsestà
20. Ad eseguir del mio Signor i cenni
21. Aria: La fortuna è troppo avara
22. Aria: A chi mai arrise il fato
23. Del paterno diadema
24. Aria: Si, del Moro la Figura
25. Dimmi, gentil Lindora
26. Duetto: Vogliamoci bene
27. Lindora io ben sapea
Atto secondo
28. Aria: Mai gioir, ah non potea
29. Sinfonia, 4 mvts.
30. Se d'un padrone solo
31. Aria: Come mai sarà possibile
32. Ma alla sventura mia
33. Aria: Deve aver lumi di Lince
34. Torna e digli
35. Ecco che pronto ad obbedir
36. Aria: È prodigio d'eccelsa beltà
37. Sa il ciel se ognor m'affanna
38. Aria: È invariabile la fede mia
39. Dunque solo a mio danno
40. Aria: Nume Amor, fammi gioir
41. Parla d'Amore, Eurinda
42. Aria: Stelle ingrate, che sarà?
43. Reina a me non lice
44. Aria: Dimmi Amor, che fia di me?
45. Io si che più non posso
46. Aria: Bellezze che in sdegni
47. Stelle, ch'avete in cura
48. Aria: Muta stil, se vuoi gioire
49. Crudele servitù
CD 2:
1. Aria: Libertà, quanto sei cara
2. Perdonna o bella
3. Aria: Seppellitevi nel core
4. Ardire o Floridoro
5. Aria: Quante forme strane e varie
6. Ma che fai?
7. Aria: O tormenti o crudi affanni
8. Aria: A consiglio, amorosi pensieri
9. Del regio appartamento
10. Aria: O che mai gioisca un di
11. Filandro ognor si lagna
12. Aria: Amor, dammi mercè
13. E qual speranza mai
14. Duetto: Mi va sempre stuzzicando
15. Sian lodate le stelle
16. Aria: Non s'intright con Amore
17. Pur ti ritrovo a solo
18. Aria: Goderò fortuna un dì
19. Perché bella reina
20. Aria: Del labbro assetato
21. Feraspe in questi allori
22. Aria: Mio core respira, ardisci
23. Ma pria che l'alto affare
24. Aria: T'intendo sì, t'intendo
25. Dunque perché non goda
26. Aria: Non so dir chi vincerà
27. Dove, dove il cammino
28. Aria: A chi è in corte va così
Atto terzo
29. Sinfonia, 4 mvts.
30. Aria: Con lo strale che fatale
31. Deh, se il volto d'un servo
32. Aria: Dammi spirto da resistere
33. Se non mentisce il guardo
34. Aria: Non speri di gioir
35. Leggo ne' lumi suoi
36. Aria: Afflitta, trafitta
CD 3:
1. Aria: Sono care quelle pene
2. Non son gravi i martiri
3. Aria: Dolce Amor, nume bendato
4. Del consiglier Rodrigo
5. O del tronco sicano
6. Aria: Non mi voglio disperar
7. Che Feraspe?
8. Aria: A che tardi a morir, misero core
9. Raffrena, Eurinda il duolo
10. Aria: Furie terribili, incrudelitevi
11. Che fa, dunque che fa
12. Aria: Con folle pensiero
13. Tormentata Lucinda
14. Aria: Fugga il pianto, o miei pensieri
15. Non sichiaro e lucente
16. Aria: Ti dovresti contentar
17. Filandro, al tuo gran merto
18. Duetto: Quando un core un amore
19. Vilentieri ritorno
20. Aria: Col mio sangue comprarei
21. Aria: Per pieta, deh torna a me
22. Astri, che a danno mio
23. Aria: Fiorin sen fuggì
24. Mai vanno le disgrazie
25. Aria: Oh, che caso stravagante
26. Mie pupille dolenti
27. Aria: Pensier ch'affliggete
28. E perché non sia vana
29. Duetto: Così burlasti Amore
30. Non inarcar le ciglia
31. Trio: Non disperi, ah no, la gloria
Performers:
Riccardo Ristori - Rodrogo (basso)
Roberta Invernizzi - Eurinda (soprano)
Silvia Piccollo - Lucinda (soprano)
Marco Lazzara - Lindora (contralto)
Valeria Matacchini - Feraspe / Floridoro (contralto)
Maria Grazia Liguori - Fiorindo (soprano)
Marco Beasley - Felandro (tenore)
Alessandro Stradella Consort
Esteban Velardi, direttore
Alessandro Stradella was, along with Henry Purcell and Heinrich von Biber, among the most striking and idiosyncratic composers of the late seventeenth century. He is known principally for his cantatas on sacred subjects such as "La Susanna" and "San Giovanni Battista," which prefigure Handel's oratorios, and from which Handel borrowed freely. Stradella's musical eccentricities were paralleled by his irregular life. A member of the minor nobility, he ran through his inheritance while young, and thereafter supplemented his musical earnings by questionable financial dealings that incurred the anger of influential families. These obliged him to flee Rome for Venice in 1677. At Venice he seduced the mistress of a patrician, who in consequence sent assassins after him. He fled again to Turin, then to Genoa, where he was finally klled in 1682. Responsibility for his murder has never been convincingly assigned. Stradella's life resembled a melodrama, and has indeed been made the subject of an opera by Flotow.
"Moro per amore" (A Moor for love, or alternately, A fool for love) is not a cantata but a full-fledged opera, and a grand one at that. The libretto by Flavio Orsini, duke of Bracchiano, is alternatively titled "Il Floridoro." It was composed as a private diversion for that nobleman's friends in the Accademia degli Arcadi, a semi-secret learned society typical of the age, in which its author held the anagrammatic deckname Filosinavoro.
While it is not Shakespearean in its gravitas, the story reminds us why so many of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies had Italian settings - such Italian comedies of manners as this one had been written years before Shakespeare, and continued to be for many years after his time, as this one was. The interplay between the "downstairs" and "upstairs" characters is a staple, the servants often being used for low comedy, as for example Juliet's nurse in "Romeo and Juliet." The comparable character in "Moro per amore," Lindora, is given some of the most resplendent singing; the aria "Muta stil" is a real showpiece.
Indeed, the music of "Moro per amore" challenges all its singers. It was intended for a cast of virtuosi: two female sopranos (Eurinda and Lucinda); a castrato soprano (Fiorino); a female contralto (Lindora), a castrato contralto (Feraspe/Floridoro), a tenor (Filandro) and a bass (Rodrigo). Here the rôle of Lindora is sung by the male contralto Marco Lazzara, that of Feraspe/Floridoro by female contralto Valeria Matacchini, and Fiorino by female soprano Maria Grazia Liguori. Roberta Invernizzi sings Eurinda, Silvia Piccollo is Lucinda, Filandro is Marco Beasley, and Rodrigo, Riccardo Ristori. The cast are all more than competent, but outstanding performances are delivered by Invernizzi as Eurinda, and especially by Lazzara as Lindora. Esteban Velardi ably conducts the Alessandro Stradella Consort in the sinfonie and ritornelle. This 3-disc set under the off-brand Bongiovanni label is a very fine recording of some great music.
"Moro per amore" (A Moor for love, or alternately, A fool for love) is not a cantata but a full-fledged opera, and a grand one at that. The libretto by Flavio Orsini, duke of Bracchiano, is alternatively titled "Il Floridoro." It was composed as a private diversion for that nobleman's friends in the Accademia degli Arcadi, a semi-secret learned society typical of the age, in which its author held the anagrammatic deckname Filosinavoro.
While it is not Shakespearean in its gravitas, the story reminds us why so many of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies had Italian settings - such Italian comedies of manners as this one had been written years before Shakespeare, and continued to be for many years after his time, as this one was. The interplay between the "downstairs" and "upstairs" characters is a staple, the servants often being used for low comedy, as for example Juliet's nurse in "Romeo and Juliet." The comparable character in "Moro per amore," Lindora, is given some of the most resplendent singing; the aria "Muta stil" is a real showpiece.
Indeed, the music of "Moro per amore" challenges all its singers. It was intended for a cast of virtuosi: two female sopranos (Eurinda and Lucinda); a castrato soprano (Fiorino); a female contralto (Lindora), a castrato contralto (Feraspe/Floridoro), a tenor (Filandro) and a bass (Rodrigo). Here the rôle of Lindora is sung by the male contralto Marco Lazzara, that of Feraspe/Floridoro by female contralto Valeria Matacchini, and Fiorino by female soprano Maria Grazia Liguori. Roberta Invernizzi sings Eurinda, Silvia Piccollo is Lucinda, Filandro is Marco Beasley, and Rodrigo, Riccardo Ristori. The cast are all more than competent, but outstanding performances are delivered by Invernizzi as Eurinda, and especially by Lazzara as Lindora. Esteban Velardi ably conducts the Alessandro Stradella Consort in the sinfonie and ritornelle. This 3-disc set under the off-brand Bongiovanni label is a very fine recording of some great music.
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