Caldara: In dolce amore: All the arias and cantatas on this album are world premiere recordings.

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Academia Montis Regalis and Alessandro De Marchi accompany with robust directness or lighter delicacy as required, and Johannsen's versatile singing helps to reveal an enriching glimpse of Caldara's... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Release Date: 27th May 2014
Catalogue No: 88843011692
Label: Deutsche HM
Length: 72 minutes

Caldara: Scipione nelle Spagne: Pensieri di amante

Work length4:40

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

Caldara: Cantata: Begl'occhi

Work length10:47

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Academia Montis Regalis, Robin Johannsen (soprano)
Alessandro De Marchi

Sinfonia

Track length2:04

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Begl'occhi adorati (Recitativo)

Track length0:55

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L'ardor che in petto sento (Aria)

Track length2:54

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Sin ch'io racchiudo in seno (Recitativo)

Track length1:07

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Vedrai se un cor più fido (Aria)

Track length3:47

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Caldara: Scipione Africano: In dolce amore

Work length5:25

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

Caldara: Adriano in Siria: Numi se giusti siete

Work length7:05

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

Caldara: Cantata: Rotte l'aspre catene

Work length12:46

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Academia Montis Regalis, Robin Johannsen (soprano)
Alessandro De Marchi

Sinfonia

Track length2:36

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Rotte l'aspre catene (Recitativo)

Track length0:50

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In due begl'occhi (Aria)

Track length4:28

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Appena il cor senti l'acerba piaga (Recitativo)

Track length1:01

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E pur vi deggio amar (Aria)

Track length3:51

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Caldara: Demofoonte: Se tutti i mali miei

Work length5:10

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

Caldara: Scipione Africano: Figlia a Roma

Work length6:07

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

Caldara: Temistocle: Chi mai d'iniqua stella

Work length6:05

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

Caldara: Cantata: Credea, Niso

Work length10:17

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Academia Montis Regalis, Robin Johannsen (soprano)
Alessandro De Marchi

Sinfonia

Track length2:03

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Credea, Niso (Recitativo)

Track length0:47

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Fuggi pur (Aria)

Track length2:28

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Ma non creder ingrato (Recitativo)

Track length0:47

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Fa presto ritorno (Aria)

Track length4:12

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Caldara: I disingannati: Una donna

Work length4:20

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Robin Johannsen (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi

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CANTATAS AND OPERAS – the twin pillars of secular vocal music of the baroque period. Few composers – though there are some notable exceptions – eschewed these genres if only because a set of cantatas, engraved or copied professionally and strategically dedicated, could be a comparatively inexpensive starting point for a career while opera lured with prospects of fame and fortune.

The Venetian-born Antonio Caldara (1670–1736) certainly was no exception. His set of twelve cantatas (Op. 3) appeared in 1699; his operas had been staged in theatres in Venice before his move to the court at Mantua in 1700. But with his appointment as maestro da cappella to Francesco Maria Ruspoli, prince of Cerveteri, in Rome from mid-1709 and then as vice-Kapellmeister to the imperial court at Vienna from June 1716, he encountered environments that required intense concentration on the cantata in one and on opera in the other.

In the seven years up to his departure for Vienna Caldara supplied Ruspoli with some 200 cantatas – but no more than three operas. The explanation lies in the ‘conversazioni’ that Ruspoli held in his palazzo on most Sundays throughout the year. At these, eminent clergy and diplomats, cognoscenti of the arts and friends of Ruspoli would hear their host’s small instrumental ensemble and some of his singers in new cantatas from his immensely prolific maestro. Nearly all of these are for soprano or contralto voice and most have a sequence of recitative – aria – recitative – aria. Many begin with an ‘introduzione’ comprising of two well-contrasted allegro movements. ‘Introduzioni’ and arias alike are scored for 3 strings (two violins and a bass line) or unison violins and continuo. Six arias of these three cantatas are intimate rather than grandiose, whether in their overall dimensions, slender accompaniments or small-scale musical ideas, and above all in their texts that deal with personal experiences of love: cruel, unrequited, possessive, delightfully painful, or sweet.

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Awards Issue 2014

Academia Montis Regalis and Alessandro De Marchi accompany with robust directness or lighter delicacy as required, and Johannsen's versatile singing helps to reveal an enriching glimpse of Caldara's virtues.

Caldara: In dolce amore

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