Ton Koopman - Händel: 'Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?' HWV 171a and Other Italian Cantatas (2016)
Artist: Ton Koopman
Title: Händel: 'Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?' HWV 171a and Other Italian Cantatas
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 01:04:02
Total Size: 351 / 168 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: Händel: 'Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?' HWV 171a and Other Italian Cantatas
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 01:04:02
Total Size: 351 / 168 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tu fedel, tu costante, HWV 171a (Georg Friedrich Händel)
1. Recitativo Tu fedel? tu costante? 01:32
2. Aria Cento belle ami, Fileno 04:53
3. Recitativo L’occhio nero vivace 01:00
4. Aria Se Licori, Filli ed io 02:13
5. Recitativo Ma se non hai più d’un sol core 00:37
6. Aria Se non ti piace amarmi 05:03
7. Recitativo Ma il tuo genio incostante 00:57
8.. Aria Sì, crudel, ti lascerò 01:32
Tacete, ohime, tacete, HWV 196 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
9. Tacete, ohimè, tacete! 04:16
10. Non sia voce importuna 01:33
11. Sol quando dorme Amore 02:23
Dalla guerra amorosa, HWV 102a (Georg Friedrich Händel)
12. Recitativo Dalla guerra amorosa 00:29
13. Aria Non v’alletti un’occhio nero 03:17
14. Recitativo Fuggite, sí fuggite 00:45
15. Aria La bellezza è come un Fiore 03:11
16. Recitativo Fuggite, sì fuggite 01:11
Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel Dolce dell'oblio) HWV 134 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
17. Recitativo Nel dolce dell’oblio 00:29
18. Aria Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge 03:09
19. Recitativo Così fida ella vive al cuor 00:20
20. Aria Ha l’inganno il suo diletto 02:46
Giù nei Tartarei regni, HWV 187 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
21. Giù nei Tartarei regni 01:57
22. Io ch’ardendo mi sfaccio 04:02
Aure soavi, e liete, HWV 84 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
23. Recitativo Aure soavi e liete 01:10
24. Aria Care luci, che l’alba rendete 02:04
25. Recitativo Pietà, Clori, pietà! 00:37
26. Arietta Un aura flebile 01:46
Cuopre tal volta il cielo, HWV 98 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
27. Accompagnato Cuopre tal volta il cielo 01:26
28. Aria Tuona, ballena, sibila il vento 03:28
29. Recitativo Così fiera procella dà rio tormento 01:17
30. Aria Per pietà di miei martiri 04:39
Performers:
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman (harpsichord, director)
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)
Klaus Mertens (bass)
Sometime in late 1705 or 1706 Georg Friedrich Händel, like many German composers before him, travelled to Italy, then the fountainhead of European music. During the next three years he paid extended visits to Rome and also spent time in Florence, Venice and Naples. In 1709-10, perhaps after a year back in Hamburg, he returned once again to Florence and Venice. Rather than studying with some Italian master, as others had done, he quickly established himself as a virtuoso performer and composer, enjoying the support of leading patrons and composing numerous cantatas.
Lost music from Handel’s years in Italy rarely comes to light. So it was with considerable excitement that in 2015 I found myself looking at a previously unknown and largely different version of the cantata “Tu fedel? tu costante?”, HWV 171 uniquely preserved in a manuscript belonging to Ton Koopman. As so often it was a chance discovery.
“Tu fedel? tu costante?” is the complaint of an injured love. Both Handel settings of this text are for soprano, but in HWV 171a, as presented in the Koopman manuscript, the accompanying ensemble includes an oboe in addition to the two violins and continuo found in HWV 171. Otherwise, except for the absence of the introductory sonata in HWV 171, the new cantata is practically identical with the familiar version up to the end of the first aria. Thereafter it sharply diverges. HWV 171a was probably composed in Venice or Florence sometime prior to Handel’s first
arrival in Rome in late 1706. HWV 171 was completed by May 1707.
Lost music from Handel’s years in Italy rarely comes to light. So it was with considerable excitement that in 2015 I found myself looking at a previously unknown and largely different version of the cantata “Tu fedel? tu costante?”, HWV 171 uniquely preserved in a manuscript belonging to Ton Koopman. As so often it was a chance discovery.
“Tu fedel? tu costante?” is the complaint of an injured love. Both Handel settings of this text are for soprano, but in HWV 171a, as presented in the Koopman manuscript, the accompanying ensemble includes an oboe in addition to the two violins and continuo found in HWV 171. Otherwise, except for the absence of the introductory sonata in HWV 171, the new cantata is practically identical with the familiar version up to the end of the first aria. Thereafter it sharply diverges. HWV 171a was probably composed in Venice or Florence sometime prior to Handel’s first
arrival in Rome in late 1706. HWV 171 was completed by May 1707.
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