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It was once believed that the Venetian-born Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni was Handel's principal patron during the composer's exciting youthful years in Rome. Scholars now shy away from that verdict... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 4th Feb 2008
Catalogue No: GCD921523
Label: Glossa
Series: Handel Italian Cantatas
Length: 66 minutes

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Handel: Ero e Leandro, HWV 150

Work length24:36

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Raffaella Milanesi (soprano)
Risonanza, La

Recitative: Qual ti riveggio, oh Dio!

Track length0:46

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Aria: Empio mare, onde crudeli

Track length7:07

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Recitative: Amor, che ascoso

Track length0:45

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Aria: Se la morte non vorra

Track length6:44

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Recitative: Questi dalla mia fronte

Track length1:05

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Aria: Si muora, si muora

Track length6:49

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Recitative: Ecco, gelide labbra

Track length1:20

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Handel: No se emendará jamás, HWV 140

Work length5:45

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Raffaella Milanesi (soprano)
Risonanza, La

Aria: No se emendara jamas

Track length2:47

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Recitative: Si del quereros es causa

Track length1:00

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Aria: Dicente mis ojos

Track length1:58

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Handel: Spande ancor a mio dispetto, HWV165

Work length9:14

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Salvo Vitale (bass)
Risonanza, La

Aria: Spande ancor a mio dispetto

Track length3:54

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Accompanied Recitative: Oh! Che de fiere pene

Track length1:47

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Aria: Da balza in balza

Track length3:33

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Handel: Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio, HWV 78

Work length26:45

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Raffaella Milanesi (soprano)
Risonanza, La

Sonata

Track length8:23

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Aria: Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio

Track length5:02

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Recitative: Non sdegnerai d'amar

Track length0:49

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Aria: Di quel bel chi'l ciel ti diede

Track length4:11

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Accompanied Recitative: Balena il cielo

Track length1:38

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Aria: Per trofei di mia costanza

Track length6:42

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In the third instalment in Fabio Bonizzoni's survey of the secular cantatas with instrumental accompaniment, composed by Handel during his stay in Italy, come a quartet of works associated with the Venice-born maecenas Pietro Ottoboni, including the substantial Ero e Leandro, the libretto for which is plausibly considered to have been written by the Cardinal Ottoboni himself. As well as the seldom-performed cantata for bass, Spande ancora a mio dispetto and Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio scored for soprano solo, Bonizzoni also directs the Spanishtexted No se emendará jamás.

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2010

It was once believed that the Venetian-born Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni was Handel's principal patron during the composer's exciting youthful years in Rome. Scholars now shy away from that verdict but he was a famous patron of the most respected Italian composers and his orchestra was led by Corelli. The cold truth is that not one of these four cantatas – which all date from about summer 1707 – has a verifiable connection with Ottoboni. There is flimsy evidence that the dramatic masterpiece Qual ti riveggio was written for him, and it is not difficult to imagine the astonishing solo violin passages were created specifically for Corelli to play. La Risonanza's Nick Robinson does a marvellous job with them; his playing is sweet, astute and sensitively contoured.
Raffaella Milanesi's singing is as emotionally raw as possible while remaining impeccably stylish and melodically suave as she describes the anguished Hero's discovery of her drowned lover Leander's body. Fabio Bonizzoni ensures that the performances crackle with dramatic tension or plumb the depths of desolate melodic melancholy according to what Handel's music demands, but the most impressive aspect of these performances is the conductor's awareness of story-telling and judicious moulding of the musical flow. The short cantata No se emenderá jamás – Handel's only composition with Spanish words – has been recorded before but never with the rapturous effect achieved here. The bass cantata Spande ancor a mio dispetto also receives a benchmark performance. The concluding work, Ah!crudel nel pianto mio, presents conflicting emotions between elation and misery in love: the long introductory sonata is joyously played, with each musical gesture superbly executed, and Milanesi's singing is by turns chilling, sensitive, spirited or tender. This disc is further testament to the marvellous subtlety and richness of Handel's Roman music and contains Handel-singing, playing and direction of the absolute highest order.

June 2008

This disc is further testament to the marvellous subtlety and richness of Handel's Roman music and contains Handel-singing, playing and direction of the absolute highest order.

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