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Handel: Faramondo

Emily Fons (Faramondo), Anna Devin (Clotilde), Anna Starushkevych (Rosimonda), Njål Sparbo (Gustavo), Maarten Engeltjes (Adolfo), Christopher Lowrey (Gernando), Edward Grint (Teobaldo) & Iryna Dziashko (Childerico)

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings

this performance under Laurence Cummings is artfully prepared and brilliantly detailed...Cummings's orchestra is alert and assured, witha well-fed bass-line and elegant violins...Fons delivers... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2014
Catalogue No: ACC26402
Label: Accent
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

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Handel: Faramondo

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Njål Sparbo (baritone), Maarten Engeltjes (counter-tenor), Emily Fons (mezzo-soprano), Anna Devin (soprano), Anna Starushkevych (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Lowrey (counter-tenor), Edward Grint (baritone), Iryna Dziashko (soprano)
Festspiel Orchester Gottingen
Laurence Cummings
Recorded: 02 June 2014
Recording Venue: Live recording, Gottingen International Handel Festival, Germany

Overture

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Act I: Popolo, figlio, in basse note e meste (Gustavo, Adolfo)

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Act I: Accompagnato: Ascolta dagli Elisi, ombra di Sveno (Gustavo)

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Act I: Pera, pera (Chorus)

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Act I: Recitative: Mio re, pronta qui vedo (Teobaldo, Gustavo, Adolfo, Clotilde)

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Act I: Aria: Viva si, che nel mio seno (Gustavo)

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Act I: Recitative: Siam pur fuori, o mia cara (Adolfo, Clotilde)

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Act I: Aria: Conoscero, se brami (Clotilde)

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Act I: Recitative: Perdoni all'amor mio, Sveno trafitto (Adolfo)

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Act I: Aria: Chi ben ama (Adolfo)

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Act I: Recitative: Finche avro spirto e vita (Childerico, Rosimonda, Faramondo)

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Act I: Aria: Vanne, che piu ti miro (Rosimonda)

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Act I: Recitative: Faramondo infelice! (Faramondo, Gernando)

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Act I: Aria: Rival ti sono (Faramondo)

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Act I: Recitative: Va pur; preveniro gli empi disegni (Gernando)

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Act I: Aria: Voglio che mora, si (Gernando)

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Act I: Recitative: S'e giusto l'odio mio - Principessa, in vedermi - Sino ad ora, Gernando - Rosimonda, tu sei libera (Rosimonda, Gernando, Faramondo)

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Act I: Arioso: Si tornero a morir (Faramondo)

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Act I: Recitative: Qual nemico m'han dato (Rosimonda)

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Act I: Aria: Sento che un giusto sdegno (Rosimonda)

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Act I: Si, Clotilde, il mio seno - Faramondo, Signor (Gustavo, Clotilde, Teobaldo, Gustavo)

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Act I: Aria: Vado a recar la morte (Teobaldo)

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Act I: Recitative: Dalla cittade, e solo (Clotilde, Adolfo)

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Act I: Aria: Mi parto lieta (Clotilde)

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Act I: Recitative: Fra quest'ombre selvagge - Vuo stancare il destin colla constanza (Faramando, Gustavo, Adolfo)

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Act I: Aria: Sebben mi lusinga (Faramondo)

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Act III: Sinfonia

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Act II: Gia udisti i sensi miei, figlia - Principessa, a tuoi lumi (Gustavo, Rosimonda, Childerico, Gernando)

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Act II: Aria: Si, l’intendesti, si (Rosimonda)

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Act II: Recitative: Si, sdegna Rosimonda (Gernando)

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Act II: Recitative: Non ingannarmi, no (Gernando)

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Act II: Faramondo e pur salvo - Benche di Faramondo - E mora! - E dal mio brando (Clotilde, Faramondo. Rosimonda, Teobaldo, Childerico)

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Act II: Aria: Poiche pria di morire (Faramondo)

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Act II: Rosimonda, il suo duolo (Clotilde, Rosimonda)

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Act II: Aria: Combattuta da due venti (Clotilde)

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Act II: Recitative: Faramondo e in catene (Gustavo, Adolfo)

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Act II: Aria: Se a piedi tuoi morro (Aldolfo)

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Act II: Recitative: Signor, umil ti chiedo (Coltilde, Gustavo)

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Act II: Aria: Sol la brama di vendetta (Gustavo)

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Act II: Recitative: Quanto di Faramondo - Aprimi quelle porte, o ch'io t'uccido (Childerico, Teobaldo, Gernando)

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Act II: Aria: Nella terra, in ciel, nell'onda (Gernando)

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Act II: Recitative: Childerico? - Tu non sei, Faramondo (Rosimonda, Childerico, Faramondo)

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Act II: Duet: Vado e vivo con la speranza (Faramondo, Rosimonda)

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Act III: Sinfonia

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Act III: Recitative: Mi tradiscono I figli - Del destin non mi lagno (Gustavo, Clotilde, Adolfo)

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Act III: Duet: Cara, cara, tu m'accendi (Clotilde, Adolfo)

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Act III: Recitative: Signor, non t'inoltrar (Teobaldo, Gernando, Faramondo)

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Act III: Aria: Cosi suole a rio vicina (Gernando)

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Act III: Recitative: A me viene Teobaldo? - Andiam, fidi guerrieri (Faramondo, Teobaldo)

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Act III: Aria: Voglio che sia l’indegno (Faramondo)

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Act III: Recitative: D'un oltraggiato re - Padre … - Disarmato e gia il re - Ecco gl'iniqui (Gustavo, Teobaldo, Adolfo, Faramondo)

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Act III: Aria: Se ria procella (Adolfo)

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Act III: Recitative: Non isdegnar, Gustavo (Faramondo, Gustavo, Rosimonda, Clotilde)

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Act III: Aria: Sappi, crudel, io t'amo (Rosimonda)

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Act III: Recitative: Or vo' lieto alla morte (Faramondo, Clotilde, Gustavo, Gernando, Adolfo)

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Act III: Aria: Un'aura placida (Clotilde)

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Act III: Recitative: Reggi il mio braccio già impotente (Gustavo, All)

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Act III: Aria: Virtu che rende (Faramondo)

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Act III: Virtu che rende (Chorus)

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Faramondo is not one of Handel’s best known operas. It was first performed in January 1738 at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket in London; there were a total of eight performances and it was never revived during Handel's lifetime. The plot is based on the story of Pharamond, a mythological King of France, in the 5th Century AD. Faramondo, King of the Franks, and his former ally Gernando, King of the Swabians, are in love with the same woman, Rosimonda, daughter of the hostile Cimbrian King Gustavo. Her brother Adolfo loves Faramondo’s sister Clotilde and rebels against his father, who sentences him to death. A story of revenge, intrigues, love and jealousy takes its fateful course. Out of love for Rosimonda, the disguised Faramondo joins forces with her father in the fight against the traitors. In 2014, Handel’s opera received its first performance at the Göttingen International Handel Festival with a young cast performing under the musical direction of Laurence Cummings. This live recording is the second release (after Handel’s 'Siroe') in a new collaboration between the Accent label and the Göttingen International Händel Festival.

NB booklet-error: the English-language synopsis included in the booklet is for Siroe rather than Faramondo.

Reviews

January 2015

this performance under Laurence Cummings is artfully prepared and brilliantly detailed...Cummings's orchestra is alert and assured, witha well-fed bass-line and elegant violins...Fons delivers a stunning 'Si tornero a morir' and leads an almost ideal cast of young singers.

Early Music Review February 2015

all of the singers are of such a high standard and so pleasing in their renditions, that all must be praised evenly…Definitely one for the collection, and I don’t think it will age either – the musicianship will stand the test of time and fashion.

December 2014

Cummings and his expert Gottingen Festival Orchestra produce a fine account of this undervalued opera, with varied orchestral subtleties and a sure mastery of Handelian style...The title-hero is sung masterfully Emily Fons...Anna Devin has steel and style in equal measure.

December 2014

Where have they been hiding Fons? She has a focused, dark-hued voice with the suppleness to transcend the coloratura of such arias as ‘Sebben me lusinga’ … Cummings and his orchestra do full justice to the music.

26th January 2015

all [the singers] are technically more than adequate to the demands of the music and some are splendid. The palm, however, must go to the trio of female singers in the lead roles of Faramondo, Clotilde and Rosimonda. All have warm, flexible agile voices and generate considerable excitement and dramatic tension in their arias...Cummings’ conducting is first class, with plenty of rhythmic spring and inner vitality.

Early Music Today December 2014

Mezzo-soprano Emily Fons delivers…with thrilling bravura here, and Cummings’ principals sing well.

Handel: Faramondo

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