George Frideric Handel - Le Cantate Italiane, vol. I. Rome, 1706-1707
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 359 Mb | rs.com | 2006
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Isabel Lehmann, recorder
Emiliano Rodolfi. oboe & recorder
David Plantier, solo violin
Oliva Centurioni, violin
Elena Telò, violin
Gianni de Rosa, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello & viola da gamba
Rebecca Ferri, cello
Vanni Moretto, violone
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 359 Mb | rs.com | 2006
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Isabel Lehmann, recorder
Emiliano Rodolfi. oboe & recorder
David Plantier, solo violin
Oliva Centurioni, violin
Elena Telò, violin
Gianni de Rosa, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello & viola da gamba
Rebecca Ferri, cello
Vanni Moretto, violone
| “ | This first disc presents four remarkable cantatas from early in Handel’s Italian period: Il delirio amoroso, Tra le fiamme, Figlio d’alte speranze and Pensieri notturni di Filli. Given the intensity, maturity and beauty of the cantatas, it is no surprise that Handel found them useful throughout his life, but now it is finally possible to bring these remarkable works out of Handel’s workroom and give them their own long-overdue hearing. | ” |
Tra le fiamme (Il consiglio), HWV 170
Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell’oblio), HWV 134
Il delirio amoroso (Da quel giorno fatale), HWV 90
Figlio d’alte speranze, HWV 113
Label: Glossa Music
Catalog No: GCD 921521
Catalog No: GCD 921521
George Frideric Handel - Le Cantate Italiane, vol. II. Rome, 1707
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 399 Mb | rs.com | 2007
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Emanuela Galli, soprano
Isabel Lehmann, recorder
Emiliano Rodolfi. oboe & recorder
David Plantier, solo violin
Oliva Centurioni, violin
Elena Telò, violin
Gianni de Rosa, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello & viola da gamba
Rebecca Ferri, cello
Vanni Moretto, violone
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 399 Mb | rs.com | 2007
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Emanuela Galli, soprano
Isabel Lehmann, recorder
Emiliano Rodolfi. oboe & recorder
David Plantier, solo violin
Oliva Centurioni, violin
Elena Telò, violin
Gianni de Rosa, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello & viola da gamba
Rebecca Ferri, cello
Vanni Moretto, violone
| “ | In the autumn of last year Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza embarked on a journey taking a fresh look – musicologically as well as musically – at the chamber cantatas to Italian texts and with instrumental accompaniment composed by Georg Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy. Where the first release on Glossa focused on works associated with Cardinal Pamphili in Rome, this new recording contains pieces – including the dramatic cantata Armida abbandonata and Handel’s ‘own’ Hunt Cantata – originating in the establishment of the Marquis Ruspoli and written for sopranos such asMargherita Durastante and Vittoria Tarquini. Here it is the Milanese soprano Emanuela Galli who takes centre stage (and she also has taken on the role of Eurydice in Glossa’s recent recording of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo directed by Claudio Cavina). Roberta Invernizzi returns, joining forces with Galli, for Diana cacciatrice. Making use of recent research the booklet notes – written on this occasion by Karl Boehmer – help to illuminate for us Handel’s sojourn in Italy in 1707 and the origins of the five cantatas recorded here. | ” |
Armida Abbandonata (Dietro l’orme fugaci), HWV 105
Diana Cacciatrice (Alla caccia), HWV 79
Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?, HWV 171
Notte Placida e Cheta, HWV 142
Un’Alma Innamorata, HWV 173
Label: Glossa Music
Catalog No: GCD 921522
Catalog No: GCD 921522
George Frideric Handel - Le Cantate Italiane, vol. III. Rome, 1707
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 336 Mb | rs.com | 2008
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Raffaella Milanesi, soprano
Salvo Vitale, bass
Mike Fentross, baroque guitar
Andrea Mion, oboe
Rey Ishizaka, oboe
Nick Robinson, solo violin
Carlo Lazzaroni, violin
Barbara Altobello, violin
Rossella Borsoni, violin
Silvia Colli, violin
Fabio Ravasi, violin
Gianni De Rosa, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello
Olaf Reimers, cello
Vanni Moretto, violon
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 336 Mb | rs.com | 2008
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Raffaella Milanesi, soprano
Salvo Vitale, bass
Mike Fentross, baroque guitar
Andrea Mion, oboe
Rey Ishizaka, oboe
Nick Robinson, solo violin
Carlo Lazzaroni, violin
Barbara Altobello, violin
Rossella Borsoni, violin
Silvia Colli, violin
Fabio Ravasi, violin
Gianni De Rosa, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello
Olaf Reimers, cello
Vanni Moretto, violon
| “ | In the third instalment in Fabio Bonizzoni’s survey of the secular cantatas with instrumental accompaniment composed by Georg Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy, come a quartet of works associated with the Venice-born maecenas Pietro Ottoboni – including the substantial Ero e Leandro, the libretto for which is plausibly considered to have been written by the Cardinal Ottoboni himself. As well as the seldom-performed cantata for bass, Spande ancora a mio dispetto and Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio scored forsoprano solo, Bonizzoni also directs the Spanish-texted Nose emendará jamás. In this latest outing Bonizzoni continues with his policy of bringing forward accomplished singers with an intense and direct feel for Handel’s Italian output. Where the first two volumes saw contributions from Roberta Invernizzi and Emanuela Galli, here, for this “Ottoboni” release, the spotlight falls on soprano Raffaella Milanesi and bass Salvo Vitale. As before, our understanding of this neglected area of Handel’s genius is enhanced by the accompanying booklet notes. Here they are provided by Livio Marcaletti, an expert on the music of Antonio Bononcini as much as on that of Handel. | ” |
Armida Abbandonata (Dietro l’orme fugaci), HWV 105
Diana Cacciatrice (Alla caccia), HWV 79
Tu Fedel? Tu Costante?, HWV 171
Notte Placida e Cheta, HWV 142
Un’Alma Innamorata, HWV 173
Label: Glossa Music
Catalog No: GCD 921523
Catalog No: GCD 921523
George Frideric Handel - Aminta e Fillide, Le Cantate Italiane di Handel IV, Rome, 1707-1708
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 358 Mb | rs.com | 2008
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano
Nuria Rial, soprano
Carlo Lazzaroni & Elin Gabrielsson, solo violins
Barbara Altobello, Elena Telò, Silvia Colli,
Giacomo Trevisani, violins
Gianni de Rosa, viola
Caterina dell’Agnello, cello
Davide Nava, double bass
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 358 Mb | rs.com | 2008
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano
Nuria Rial, soprano
Carlo Lazzaroni & Elin Gabrielsson, solo violins
Barbara Altobello, Elena Telò, Silvia Colli,
Giacomo Trevisani, violins
Gianni de Rosa, viola
Caterina dell’Agnello, cello
Davide Nava, double bass
| “ | 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. | ” |
Aminta e Fillide (Arresta il passo) [HWV 83]
Clori, mia bella Cloria [HWV 92]
Label: Glossa Music
Catalog No: GCD 921524
Catalog No: GCD 921524
George Frideric Handel - Clori, Tirsi e Fileno. Le Cantate Italiane di Handel V. Rome, 1707
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 403 Mb | rs.com | 2009
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Yetzabel Arias Fernández, soprano
Romina Basso, alto
Andrea Mion, oboe
Elisabeth Baumer, oboe & recorder
Leila Schayegh, solo violin
Carlo Lazzaroni, Rossella Borsoni, Silvia Colli,
Raffaello Negri, Ana Liz Ojeda, Elena Telò, violins
Gianni De Rosa, Efix Puleo, violas
Caterina Dell'Agnello, cello
Rebeca Ferri, cello & recorder
Vanni Moretto, Davide Nava, double basses
Gabriele Palomba, archlute
Classical | ECD-DA Extractor | FLAC, CUE, NO LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 403 Mb | rs.com | 2009
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and direction
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Yetzabel Arias Fernández, soprano
Romina Basso, alto
Andrea Mion, oboe
Elisabeth Baumer, oboe & recorder
Leila Schayegh, solo violin
Carlo Lazzaroni, Rossella Borsoni, Silvia Colli,
Raffaello Negri, Ana Liz Ojeda, Elena Telò, violins
Gianni De Rosa, Efix Puleo, violas
Caterina Dell'Agnello, cello
Rebeca Ferri, cello & recorder
Vanni Moretto, Davide Nava, double basses
Gabriele Palomba, archlute
| “ | In May 1707 George Frideric Handel entered into the service of the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, and under his protection, embarked upon a tremendous career. As well as making a name for himself as a spectacular virtuoso on the harpsichord and organ, through his plentiful concerts in the Roman academies, Handel lost no time in also becoming a highly sought-after composer through his felicitous and apparently inexhaustible inspiration. In addition to a significant number of cantatas for solo voice and basso continuo, Handel also involved himself in composing cantatas for larger numbers of voices, combining these with a large supporting orchestral group. The score of Clori, Tirsi e Fileno is certainly a complex one, as much for its dramatic plotline as for its individually-chosen musical options: the result is a genuine opera in miniature, equipped with real refinement and lightness. Consequently, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno turns - even more so than with other Italian cantata works by the caro Sassone - into an authentic laboratory in which Handel experiments with the most diverse musical and dramatic forms, obtaining by this method a capacity to elaborate that special language which was to locate it firmly within the glories of the theatre, from the past and the present. | ” |
Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (Cor fedele, in vano speri) [HWV 83]
Label: Glossa Music
Catalog No: GCD 921525
Catalog No: GCD 921525





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