Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias

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Release Date: 7th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: BIS2585
Label: BIS
Length: 81 minutes

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Hasse, J A: Ciro riconosciuto

Work length7:51

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Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin

Non piangete, amati rai

Track length7:51

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Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria

Work length19:11

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Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin

Sventurato chi piagato

Track length1:45

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Tu sei crudel così

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Apri Cirene i lumi

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Fiero sdegno dell'alma guerriero

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Quel volto vezzoso

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Mi preparo a trionfar

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Scarlatti, A: Quella pace gradita

Work length18:24

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Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin

I. Sinfonia

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II. Quella pace gradita

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III. Crudel tiranno amore

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IV. O voi selve beate

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V. Care selve, soggiorni di quiete

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VI. Lungi da me, tiranno amore

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VII. Teco, o mesta tortorella

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Auletta: Harpsichord Concerto in C major

Work length18:27

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Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin

I. Allegro

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II. Larghetto

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III. Allegro

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Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai

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Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dohyo Sol (baroque guitar), Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin

Dimmi bel neo che fai

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I. Dimmi bel neo che fai

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II. Così amor mi dasse in sorte

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III. No m'inganna il pensiero

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IV. Che vaneggia quest

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V. Si neo chiamarti deggio

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VI. Si tu puoi darli ò cara

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trad.: Tarantella del Gargano

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Arr. for Voice & Baroque Guitar
Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Dohyo Sol (baroque guitar)

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"During the 17th and 18th centuries, Naples’ fame as a musical centre attracted travellers, composers, instrumentalists and virtuoso singers alike. Among the aspiring musicians, the most highly-trained and sought-after were the castrati, promising boys aged between 8 and 12 who were subjected to an operation intended to preserve the exceptionally pure timbre of their treble voice. Forever virginal beings whose superhuman voices mesmerized their listeners they were nicknamed angiolilli, ‘little angels’, and sang in the most important churches and theatres of ‘Castrapolis’, a term coined to describe the southern capital and its high concentration of castrato sopranos. Nicolò Balducci is one of the rapidly rising countertenors and sopranists of his generation. Together with the ensemble Dolci Affetti, directed by the renowned recorder player Dan Laurin, he here performs arias and cantatas by Hasse, Porsile, Sarro and Alessandro Scarlatti. All four composers were associated with Naples and knew how to highlight these extraordinary voices, at a time when opera and the chamber cantata represented the most fashionable musical genres both in Italy and abroad. The program is completed with a concerto for harpsichord by Domenico Auletta, with Anna Paradiso performing the solo part."

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May/June 2023

[Balducci] His voice does not sound very large, but it is distinctive, pleasantly nasal, on the verge of hyper-brilliance, and he throws it around with almost reckless delight. There’s something of a pop singer in Balducci’s uninhibited style, and that becomes particularly true in the last selection, a traditional Tarantella del Gargano, which Balducci sings in dialect, and also as if he were a Baroque Joan Baez.

December 2022

Balducci – the latest in a rich new crop of sopranists – has an attractive instrument. The voice is lean and arrow-precise, pure but not lacking in power – one for fans of Jaroussky and Orlinski. But what he does with it is more contentious.

Opera Now November 2022

Balducci seizes the recitives with zest and colours the two outlying arias with skill, the central aria with brio. His voice is pure with some pleasingly aching phrasing and a confident top... his technique is solid and the sound intriguing.

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