The Taste of This Nation: Music by Corbett, Pepsuch, and Shuttleworth

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Spiritato has hit a home run in several ways with this album. First, the orchestra sounds exquisite. The strings are warm, and the ensemble playing is tight and clean, but still responsive. The... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

Release Date: 12th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: DCD34236
Label: Delphian
Length: 74 minutes

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Corbett, W: Le Bizarrie Universali: Al'Inglese

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Spiritato!

I. Allegro

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II. Aria cantabile

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III. Presto - Allegro assai

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Pepusch: Kindly fate at length release me

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Ciara Hendrick
Spiritato!

No. 1, Kindly Fate at Length Release Me

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No. 2, Thus to His Lyre the Drooping Swain

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No. 3, Rouse, Rouse, Rouse

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Shuttleworth: Concerto Grosso No. I (after Corelli)

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Tuomo Suni, Kinga Ujszászi
Spiritato!

Ia. Grave

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Ib. Adagio

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Ic. Allegro

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Id. Adagio

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II. Allegro

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III. Allegro

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IV. Adagio

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V. Allegro

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Pepusch: The Spring

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Ciara Hendrick
Spiritato!

No. 1, Fragrant Flora

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No. 2, Thus on a Fruitful Hill

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No. 3, Love and Pleasures Gaily Flowing

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Shuttleworth: Concerto Grosso No. XI (after Corelli)

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Tuomo Suni, Kinga Ujszászi
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II. Allegro

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III. Adagio

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IV. Vivace

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V. Allegro

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Pepusch: Chloe

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Ciara Hendrick
Spiritato!

No. 1, Airy Cloe Proud and Young

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No. 2, Leave Me

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No. 3, Fir'd by This Disdain

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No. 4, This I've Done to Prove Thee

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Corbett, W: Sonata in E, Op. 3 No. 5 for trumpet, strings & continuo

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Oonagh Lee, William Russell
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I. Adagio

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II. Largo

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III. Vivace

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IV. Allegro

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Pepusch: While Pale Britannia Pensive Sate

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Ciara Hendrick
Spiritato!

No. 1, While Pale Britannia Pensive Sate

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No. 2, How Long, Unhappy Isle

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No. 3, She Sigh'd and Would Have Farther Said

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No. 4, No More Britannia, Sigh No More

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Corbett, W: Le Bizarrie Universali: Alla Bolognese

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Spiritato!

I. Allegro

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II. Largo andante

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III. Allegro

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Period ensemble Spiritato's Delphian debut transports us back to a decisive juncture in the history of English music. The Taste of this Nation is a picture of the rapid arrival and astonishing success of Italian styles, genres and indeed musicians in London in the early 1700s, showing that a vibrant, cosmopolitan scene had arisen in the capital even before the arrival of Handel on British shores in 1710.

One of the prime instigators of the Italianate tendency was in fact an immigrant from Prussia. Johann Christoph Pepusch composed for the Italian soprano Margarita de L'Epine (also based in London) what can be regarded as the first English cantatas in the Italian style.

Spiritato are joined by mezzo Ciara Hendrick, on dazzling vocal form in four of these works, while the vigour and precision of the ensemble's playing led by violinist Kinga Ujszászi comes to the fore in instrumental works by two native Englishmen which again evidence Italian connections.

Obadiah Shuttleworth's concerti grossi are inventive reimaginings of violin sonatas by Corelli, and William Corbett's infectious Bizarrie Universali show how a composer who had spent extensive time on the Continent could trade on his Italian connections to win favour with audiences in his native land.

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Nov/Dec 2021

Spiritato has hit a home run in several ways with this album. First, the orchestra sounds exquisite. The strings are warm, and the ensemble playing is tight and clean, but still responsive. The program is varied, exciting, and overwhelmingly pleasant, and it provides the first commercial recordings of virtually all this music.

April 2021

The playing of Spiritato lacks something of the sonic oomph and tautness of ensemble we might expect of more experienced groups but it is light, bright and competent enough to make this a release lovers of Baroque byways will surely find rewarding.

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