Vivaldi: Argippo

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Scholarship aside, what counts is whether Fabio Biondi directing Europa Galante finds satisfying music theatre in this collage. And so he does...Vivaldi’s musical fingerprints are everywhere... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: OP7079
Label: Naive
Series: Vivaldi Edition
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

January 2021

Opera Choice
Presto Recording of the Week

18th December 2020

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137

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Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Sinfonia RV 112. Allegro molto"

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"Sinfonia RV 112. Andante"

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"Sinfonia RV 112. Presto"

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 1

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Delphine Galou (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Zanaida)

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"Aria. Se lento ancora il fulmine" (Zanaida)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 2

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Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Tisifao, Silvero)

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"Aria. Rege son che combattuto" (Tisifaro)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 3

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Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Silvero)

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"Aria. Del fallire il rimorso è la pena" (Silvero)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 4

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist), Delphine Galou (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Di Cingone il regnante sen viene" (Coro)

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"Aria. Quel ciglio vezzosetto" (Zanaida, Silvero, Osira, Argippo)

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Antonio Vivaldi, Antonio Galeazzi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 4: "Aria. Anche in mezzo a perigliosa" (Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 5: "Recitativo" (Osira)

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Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista Pescetti: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 5: "Aria. Qual disarmata nave" (Osira)

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Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 6: "Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Zanaida)

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Delphine Galou (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista Pescetti: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act I, Scene 6: "Aria. Dov’è la morte" (Tisifaro)

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Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 1: "Recitativo" (Silvero, Zanaida, Osira)

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Marie Lys (vocalist), Delphine Galou (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Adolph Hasse: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 1: "Aria Che gran pena trafigge il mio core" (Zanaida)

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Delphine Galou (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 2

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Osira, Silvero, Argippo)

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"Aria. Non temer e datti pace" (Silvero)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 3: "Recitativo" (Osira, Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 3: "Aria. Bell’idolo amato" (Osira)

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Marie Lys (vocalist)
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Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 4

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Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Osira)

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"Aria. Un certo non so che" (Osira)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 5: "Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Silvero)

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Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 6: "Recitativo" (Argippo, Tisifaro)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 7

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Delphine Galou (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Zanaida, Argippo)

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"Aria / Io son rea dell’ onor mio" (Zanaida)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 8

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Argippo)

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"Aria / A’ piedi miei svenato" (Tisifaro)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 9: "Recitativo" (Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Antonio Galeazzi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act II, Scene 9: " Aria. Da più venti combattuta" (Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 1: "Recitativo" (Osira, Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista Pescetti: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 1: "Aria. Mi sento nel core" (Osira)

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Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 1: "Recitativo" (Osira, Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 2: "Recitativo" (Osira, Silvero, Argippo, Tisifaro)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Stefano Andrea Fiorè: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 2: "Aria. Vado a morir per te" (Osira)

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Marie Lys (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 3: "Recitativo" (Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista Pescetti: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 3: "Aria. Vi sarà stella clemente" (Argippo)

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 4: "Recitativo" (Zanaida, Silvero)

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Delphine Galou (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Antonio Vivaldi, Leonardo Vinci: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 4: "Aria. Se d’un amor tiranno" (Zanaida)

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Delphine Galou (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 5

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Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Silvero)

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"Aria. Se la bella tortorella" (Silvero)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene 6

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Delphine Galou (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Silvero, Zanaida, Argippo)

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"Recitativo" (Tisifaro, Silvero, Zanaida, Argippo)

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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV Anh. 137, Act III, Scene Scena ultima

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Emőke Baráth (vocalist), Marie Lys (vocalist), Delphine Galou (vocalist), Marianna Pizzolato (vocalist), Luigi De Donato (vocalist)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

"Recitativo" (Osira, Tisifaro, Silvero, Zanaida, Argippo)

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"Aria. Che farai?" (Osira)

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"Recitativo" (Osira, Tisifaro, Silvero, Zanaida, Argippo)

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"Se d’inganno amor si pasce" (Coro)

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With this second contribution to the Vivaldi Edition, Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante sign here the recording of the twentieth opera of the collection - a pasticcio in which Vivaldi ‘recycles’ hit tunes from the ‘World of Warcraft’ operas of his contemporaries.

More than any other, this work has, narrowly, escaped oblivion. The original score, composed by Vivaldi in 1730 for Vienna and Prague, having been lost. A meticulous reconstruction of the manuscript was carried out by the musicologist Bernardo Ticci - for whom Vivaldi’s music has no secrets - from several existing sources scattered in Eastern Europe (the booklets of the two productions, a collection of arias and a work Anonymous, enhanced with arias by Galeazzi, Pescetti, Hasse, Porpora, Fiorè and Vinci). This is the version of this pasticcio which is here recreated and recorded.

Lovers’ rivalries and family conflicts, accumulation of misunderstandings, upset feelings and exacerbated emotions are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Vivaldi. The Venetian composer finds in the text of Domenico Lalli - librettist of several lyrical works inspired by the Empire moghol - all the springs conducive to a contrasting and always glowing writing at the fires of love to death: rowdy and fiery or even hallucinatory allegros, tender or anguished cantabile, writing ‘gallant’... virtuous in its vocality as well as in its instrumental lines, “this improbable opera bears the seal of an authentic Vivaldian pasticcio,” wrote Reinhard Strohm.

Particularly noteworthy is Zanaida’s aria di furore “Se lento ancora il fulmine” (Act I, Delphine Galou), Osira’s love tune “Vado a morir per te” (Act III, Marie Lys) and the “Da più venti combattut” of Act II (Emöke Baráth).

Reviews

January 2021

Scholarship aside, what counts is whether Fabio Biondi directing Europa Galante finds satisfying music theatre in this collage. And so he does...Vivaldi’s musical fingerprints are everywhere on the score – those driving violins with their urgent rhythms, careful word painting and at best characters revealed through their music...Of the women characters Delphine Galou’s Zanaida gets the pick of the arias in a recording that is bright and lets the singers lead, which is as it should be.

July/August 2021

Conductor Fabio Bondi knows how to bring out the many nuances in order to make this succession of arias work together yet each one stand out. The Europa Galante period ensemble is well balanced, perfectly in sync, and able to give complete support to the singers.

February 2021

Spirited recitatives are delivered rapidly. The title-role is performed adroitly by Emőke Baráth, and Argippo’s courageous wife Osira is sung with assertive fioriture and focused phrasing by Marie Lys. Delphine Galou is a vociferous tour de force as the embittered antagonist Zanaida but her singing also has masterful subtlety when tackling deceptively fiendish cantilena.

18th December 2020

Though the title-character is naturally assigned several show-stopping arias, it’s Zanaida who is the beating heart of the opera, and Galou brings her to life in all her emotional complexity...Biondi’s energetic, imaginative direction is of course key to the success of the entire project, bringing real coherence to a work which could easily seem like Now That’s What I Call Music 1732: even the most pedestrian recitatives have drive and dramatic impetus.

Vivaldi: Argippo

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