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The transparency of a fine copy of a late 17th-century Florentine instrument never risks an overload of density and the accompaniments never detract from the singers…[Bræin's] ornamentation is... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2020 More…

Release Date: 20th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: PSC1365
Label: Simax
Length: 60 minutes

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Handel: Nice, che fa? HWV138

Work length12:57

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Christian Kjos, Ditte Marie Bræin

Prelude HWV 434

Track length1:43

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Nice, che fa? Che pensa? (recitativo)

Track length0:57

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Se pensate chi mi moro (aria – adagio)

Track length4:28

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Ah! Per maggior mio duolo (recitativo)

Track length1:10

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Verrà, sì, verrà chi adoro (aria – allegro, ma non presto)

Track length4:39

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Handel: Chi rapì la pace al core, HWV 90

Work length7:58

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Christian Kjos, Ditte Marie Bræin

Chi rapì la pace al core? (aria – adagio)

Track length3:31

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Figlio d’un fabbro (recitativo)

Track length0:28

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Pupilla lucente (aria – andante)

Track length3:59

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Handel: Fra pensieri quel pensiero, HWV 115

Work length9:06

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Christian Kjos, Marianne Beate Kielland

Sonata HWV 580

Track length1:59

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Fra pensieri quel pensiero (aria – [...])

Track length2:30

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E se fia che volando (recitativo)

Track length1:15

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Pronti l’ale dispiegate (aria – allegro)

Track length3:22

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Handel: Lungi dal mio bel nume HWV 127a

Work length14:29

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Christian Kjos, Ditte Marie Bræin

Prelude HWV 576

Track length1:02

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Lungi dal mio bel nume (recitativo)

Track length0:55

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Lontano al mio tesoro (aria – andante)

Track length5:21

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Senza la vaga Clori (recitativo)

Track length0:39

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Son come navicella (aria – allegro)

Track length2:28

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Lungi da te, ben mio (recitativo)

Track length0:37

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Torna, vieni non tardare (aria – [...])

Track length3:27

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Handel: La Lucrezia "O Numi eterni", Cantata HWV 145

Work length16:25

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Christian Kjos, Marianne Beate Kielland

Oh numi eterni! (recitativo)

Track length0:56

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Già superbo del mio affanno (aria – adagio)

Track length4:51

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Ma voi forse nel cielo (recitativo)

Track length0:48

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Il suol che preme (aria – allegro)

Track length3:19

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Ah! che ancor nell’abisso (recitativo)

Track length0:41

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Questi la disperata anima mia (furioso)

Track length0:37

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Alla salma infedel porga la pena (larghetto)

Track length2:41

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A voi, padre, consorte (recitativo)

Track length0:55

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Già nel seno (arioso)

Track length0:36

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Sento ch’il cor si scuote (recitativo)

Track length0:26

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Ma se qui non m’edato (furioso)

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Handel's years in Italy (ca. 1706-1710) were extremely creative. His chamber cantatas were performed by the most eminent singers and instrumentalists in Rome. Exploring the art of continuo playing in Handel's 'continuo cantatas', harpsichordist Christian Kjos, soprano Ditte Marle braein and mezzo-soprano Marlanne Beate release an album with captivating interpretations.

The chamber cantata was a popular genre in Italy. Their main subject is passionate love in all its facets between the shepherds in the romanticized region of Arcadia in Greece. Handel wrote around seventy continuo cantatas a lesser known genre among his rich output performed at weekly musical gatherings in the palaces of his Roman patrons.

Christian Kjos - "Continuo playing can be rendered in various degrees of complexity, depending on the skill of the performer. The treatise Grosse General-Baß-Schule (Hamburg, 1731) by Johann Mattheson Handel's friend from his Hamburg years gave me the incentive to research this rarely heard approach and to try it out in Handel's equally rarely played continuo cantatas where the continuo part is so fundamental to the result. What might be most noticeable is how frequently I abandon chordal playing to let more melodic material, imitations, parallel thirds and added dissonances into the realization, making it sound closer to an obbligato harpsichord part. Therefore, I have deliberately chosen to render these cantatas solely with harpsichord accompaniment. This chamber musical duo format like the later German Lieder seems especially suitable in terms of chamber musical flexibility, and in order to hear the independent realization even better."

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August 2020

The transparency of a fine copy of a late 17th-century Florentine instrument never risks an overload of density and the accompaniments never detract from the singers…[Bræin's] ornamentation is graceful and she has an admirably neat trill, even if emotional storytelling is a touch cool. There is plenty of expressive warmth and Italianate fluency in Kielland’s lyrical Fra pensieri quel pensiero.

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