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Offer, Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Fernando Guimarães (Ulisse), Jennifer Rivera (Penelope), Aaron Sheehan (Telemaco), Leah Wool (Minerva), Owen McIntosh (Giove), Abigail Nims (Melanto), Daniel Auchincloss (Eumaeus), Sonja DuToit Tengblad (Juno), Ulysses Thomas (Antinous) & Marc Molomot (Irus)

Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman

The most impressive performance comes from Aaron Sheehan (as Ulisse's son Telemaco) whose light lyrical voice delivers the music with utter naturalness. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, More…

Release Date: 20th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: CKD451
Label: Linn
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

2:56:15

Aaron Sheehan (tenor), Christopher Lowrey (counter-tenor), João Fernandes (bass), Sonja DuToit Tengblad (soprano), Sara Heaton (soprano), Jennifer Rivera (mezzo-soprano), Krista River (mezzo-soprano), Abigail Nims (soprano), Daniel Shirley (tenor), Owen McIntosh (tenor), Jonas Budris (tenor), Ulysses Thomas (bass-baritone), Fernando Guimarães (tenor), Leah Wool (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor), Marc Molomot (tenor)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 27-30 April 2014
Recording Venue: Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Prologue

8:41

Act I Scene 1: Di misera regina

10:03

Act I Scene 2: Duri e penosi

10:09

Act I Scene 4: Sinfonia

0:19

Act I Scene 5: Superbo è l'huom

6:08

Act I Scene 6: In questo basso mondo

2:02

Act I Scene 7: Dormo ancora

4:38

Act I Scene 8: Cara e lieta gioventù

11:48

Act I Scene 9: Tu, d'Aretusa al fonte

2:09

Act I Scene 10: Donate un giorno

8:33

Act I Scene 11: Oh come mal si salva

1:40

Act I Scene 12: Pastor d'armento può

1:44

Act I Scene 13: Ulisse generoso!

3:18

Act II Scene 1: Lieto cammino

2:34

Act II Scene 2: O gran figlio d'Ulisse

5:06

Act II Scene 3: Che veggio, ohimè, che miro?

7:33

Act II Scene 4: Eurimaco, la donna insomma

3:02

Act II Scene 5: Sono l'altre Regine

7:50

Act II Scene 7: Apportator d'alte novelle

1:06

Act II Scene 8: Compagni, udiste

6:34

Act II Scene 9: Perir non può

3:36

Act II Scene 10: Io vidi, o pellegrin

1:56

Act II Scene 11: Del mio lungo viaggio

5:16

Act II Scene 12: Sempre villano Eumete

4:55

Act II Scene 12: Tu vincitor

7:12

Act II Scene 12: Ecco l'arco d'Ulisse

10:11

Act III Scene 1: O dolor, o martir

6:14

Act III Scene 3: E quai nuovi rumori

2:11

Act III Scene 4: Forza d'occulto affetto

2:29

Act III Scene 5: È saggio Eumete

2:41

Act III Scene 6: Fiamma è l’ira, o gran Dea

3:32

Act III Scene 7: Gran Giove

6:40

Act III Scene 8: Ericlea, che vuoi far

3:30

Act III Scene 9: Ogni nostra ragion

0:47

Act III Scene 10: O delle mie fatiche

10:08

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Il ritorno d’Ulisse is unquestionably one of the three pillars that place Monteverdi among the greatest of opera composers; this recording marks the premiere of a new performing version by Martin Pearlman.

Portuguese tenor and baroque specialist Fernando Guimarães stars in the title role, alongside the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera as his loving wife Penelope.

Il ritorno d’Ulisse was a relatively recent discovery, but following its authentication in the 1950s and revivals in Vienna and Glyndebourne, the opera has enjoyed new found popularity.

Martin Pearlman’s new performing version benefits from the same attention to detail that has ensured his reputation as a leading champion of period performance. His highly considered approach to all aspects of the score and performance ensure this version is true to Monteverdi’s original vision.

With a libretto drawing from Homer’s Odyssey, Il ritorno d’Ulisse is a riveting human drama with an enviable cast including: Abigail Nims (Melanto), Daniel Auchincloss (Eumaeus), Sonja DuToit Tengblad (Juno), Ulysses Thomas (Antinous), and Marc Molomot (Irus).

Founded in 1973 by Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque is already familiar to an international audience with its critically acclaimed catalogue of recordings.

The three-time GRAMMY-nominated ensemble is widely regarded as ’one of the world’s premier period instruments bands’ (Fanfare).

Boston Baroque's recordings - of which Fanfare magazine wrote ’each one is an incomparable gem’ - are heard by millions on classical radio stations in North America and Europe.

Boston Baroque's many career milestones include the American premiere of Rameau's Zoroastre; a Mozart opera series, and the American period-instrument premieres of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute; and a revelatory exploration of the Beethoven symphonies on period instruments.

Reviews

August 2015

The most impressive performance comes from Aaron Sheehan (as Ulisse's son Telemaco) whose light lyrical voice delivers the music with utter naturalness.

June 2015

Guimarães as a multi dimensional Ulisse exploits his rich middle register. Jennifer Rivera deftly conveys the predicaments of the long-suffering Penelope...Pearlman's vision does not offer perfect answers but no individual performance has ever got everything right.

19th April 2015

The strength of this issue is in its strong, youthful cast. The Penelope of Jennifer Rivera almost shakes my allegiance to Jacobs’s Bernarda Fink, with a limpid low mezzo of comparable beauty and expressive power, while Fernando Guimaraes’s Ulysses is heartbreaking in the moving recognition scene with Aaron Sheehan’s boyish Telemachus and Daniel Auchincloss’s devoted Eumaeus.

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