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Avie here marks his 300th anniversary – largely forgotten amid the Mozart and Shostakovich junketings – with a clutch of opera seria arias from the 1730s and '40s, before he teamed up with the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 16th Oct 2006
Catalogue No: AV2116
Label: Avie
Length: 71 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

January 2007

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Galuppi: From The Opera L'Olimpiade: Superbo Di Me Stesso

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Galuppi: From The Opera Scipione In Cartagine: Di Madre Ai Cari Amplessi

Work length8:04

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Galuppi: Concerto a quattro in G minor

Work length11:54

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Grave E Adagio

Track length3:37

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Spiritoso

Track length4:03

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Allegro

Track length4:14

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Galuppi: From The Oratorio Il Sagrifizio De Jephte: Ah, Di Lete Dall'onda Profonda

Work length6:28

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Galuppi: From An Unknown Opera: Voi Che Languite

Work length9:23

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Galuppi: From The Pasticcio Il Trionfo Della Continenza: Cedo Alla Sorte

Work length4:48

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Galuppi: Concerto A Quattro In B Flat Major

Work length10:20

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

Grave E Sostenuto

Track length5:43

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Allegro E Spiritoso

Track length2:37

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Allegro

Track length2:00

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Galuppi: From The Opera Antigono

Work length11:52

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Catherine King
Gianluca Capuano

È Pena Troppo Barbara

Track length7:58

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Benché Giusto A Vendicarmi

Track length3:54

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Baldassarre Galuppi wrote masterful musical comedies full of grace, striking a fine balance between comic and serious characters and situations. Though some of his comic operas are performed today, Galuppi’s opere serie are virtually unknown. Catherine King, together with the Italian musicians of Il Canto di Orfeo, rights this wrong with the only known collection of arias paying tribute to the composer in his anniversary year. Galuppi’s opere serie combine powerfully moving melodies with vocal fireworks in virtuoso arias. This recording is an absorbing traversal of his music drawn from manuscript sources.

Catherine King is well known in early music circles for her performances with Gothic Voices, Fretwork, lutenist Jacob Heringman and others. Milan-based Gianluca Capuano, who directs Il canto di Orfeo, has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan. Together King and Capuano have worked in Milan, Arezzo and Rome, notably for the 400th anniversary celebrations of the great baroque composer Giacomo Carissimi in 2004.

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Avie here marks his 300th anniversary – largely forgotten amid the Mozart and Shostakovich junketings – with a clutch of opera seria arias from the 1730s and '40s, before he teamed up with the playwright Carlo Goldoni to become the most successful opera buffa composer of the day.
Metastasio, doyen of opera seria librettists, once complained that Galuppi's music failed to express fully the emotions of the poetry. He may have thought again if he had heard the gravely eloquent E minor aria from Antigono, where soft trumpets add their mournful gloss to the strings.
If Galuppi's fiery bravura arias, à la Vivaldi, are less distinctive, his pathetic or soulful aried'affetto reveal his feeling for graceful, shapely melody and delicate orchestral textures: say, in a touching aria from Scipione in Cartagine (again, subtly coloured by trumpets), or a number ('Voi che languite') from an unknown opera.
Though caught in an uncomfortably swimmy church acoustic, Catherine King sings these attractive arias with firm, clear tone (her predominantly 'straight' sound selectively warmed with vibrato), elegant phrasing and agile, precise coloratura. She is splendidly vehement in the virtuoso castrato aria 'Benché giusto a vendicarmi' from Antigono, tenderly musing in 'Voi che languite', and smoothly negotiates the wide leaps between registers in the Scipione aria.
Il Canto di Orfeo accompany with verve and imagination, and on their own give vivid performances of two of Galuppi's Concerti a quattro for solo strings: the sober, Corellian G minor, and the more galant concerto in B flat, whose racy finale the players deck out with all sorts of jokey effects, right up to their zany, Stravinskified ending. Outrageous, but fun.

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