PATRICIA PETIBON
"Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias"
Works by Handel, Marcello, Porpora, Sartorio, A. Scarlatti, Vivaldi
Patricia Petibon, admired for her command of Baroque style, records her first album of Italian Baroque arias partnered by Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra
Saluted by the International Record Review for her “rare ability to inject into her performance vocal characterizations which . . . nullify the need to see these operatic characters in the flesh,” Rosso frames Petibon’s gift of transformation by purely vocal means
Petibon’s keen interpretive intelligence and gleaming tone summon into vivid life a wealth of characters tangled up in the power plays of gods, kings, witches, and devils
Rosso mixes beloved Handel airs like “Lascia ch’io pianga” with newly discovered arias by his contemporaries and predecessors. Sartorio’s “Quando voglio” and Porpora’s floating “Morte amara” are potential hits. Her Deutsche Grammophon debut, Amoureuses, won 2009’s BBC Music Magazine Award for “Best Opera Album”
SARTORIO: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1676)
[1] Quando voglio
STRADELLA: San Giovanni Battista (1675)
[2] Queste lagrime e sospiri
HANDEL: Alcina, HWV 34 (1735)
[3] Tornami a vagheggiar
HANDEL: Rinaldo, HWV 7a (1711/1731)
[4] Lascia ch'io pianga
HANDEL: Ariodante, HWV 33 (1735)
[5] Volate, amori
HANDEL: Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV 17 (1677)
[6] Piangerò la sorte mia
A. SCARLATTI: Griselda (1721)
[7] Se il mio dolor t'offende
HANDEL: Alcina, HWV 34 (1735)
[8] Ah! mio cor
HANDEL: Ariodante, HWV 33 (1735)
[9] Neghittosi, or voi che fate
PORPORA: Lucio Papirio (1737)
[10] Morte amara
VIVALDI: L'Olimpiade (1734)
[11] Siam navi all'onde algenti
SARTORIO: Orfeo (1672)
[12] Orfeo, tu dormi
MARCELLO: Arianna (1727)
[13] Come mai puoi vedermi piangere
A. SCARLATTI: Il Sedecia - Re di Gerusalemme (1705)
[14] Caldo sangue
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