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Cavalli: L'Ormindo

John Wakefield (Ormindo), Peter-Christoph Runge (Amida), Isabel Garcisanz (Nerillo), Hanneke van Bork (Sicle), Jean Allister (Melide), Hugues Cuénod (Erice), Anne Howells (Erisebe), Jane Berbié (Mirinda), Federico Davia (Ariadeno), Richard Van Allan (Osmano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond...

It’s magnificent, but it’s not Cavalli as we hear him nowadays. Who cares? Raymond Leppard’s Glyndebourne version is lush and utterly beguiling with Anne Howells as a deeply satisfying Erisebe. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4829382
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Cavalli: L'Ormindo / Act 1

Work length1:13:27

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John Wakefield (tenor), Isabel Garcisanz (mezzo-soprano), Anne Howells (soprano), Hugues Cuénod (tenor), Peter Christoph Runge (baritone), Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), Federico Davia (bass), Jean Allister (mezzo-soprano), Hanneke Van Bork (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Raymond Leppard
Recorded: 1968-08-11
Recording Venue: Glyndebourne Opera House

Sinfonia

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Miracolo d'amore

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Quel che creduto io non avrei pur vidi

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Huat, hanat, Ista

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Perfidissimo Amida

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Verginella infelice

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Se nel sen di giovinetti

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Eccola appunto, Ormindo

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Oh dell'anima mia

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Se del Perù le vene

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Auree trecce inanellate, che non fate?

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Dove, mia bella Aurora

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Volevo amar anch'io

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No no, non vo' più amare

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Cavalli: L'Ormindo / Act 2

Work length59:54

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Jean Allister (mezzo-soprano), Peter Christoph Runge (baritone), Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), Federico Davia (bass), Anne Howells (soprano), Isabel Garcisanz (mezzo-soprano), Hanneke Van Bork (soprano), Richard van Allan (bass), John Wakefield (tenor), Hugues Cuénod (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Raymond Leppard
Recorded: 1968-08-11
Recording Venue: Glyndebourne Opera House

Che città, che città

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Quanto esclamasti

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E' questo, s'io non erro

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Che rimiro? Oh stupore

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Che dirà, che farà

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Ah pigri! Che tardate?

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In grembo al caro amato

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Concosco gl'apparati

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Ahi, spirò la mia vita

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Son morti questi adulteri?

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Un talamo ed un letto

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A landmark in Baroque opera recordings, newly remastered.

This ‘royal entertainment in music’ was fashioned by Cavalli to a libretto by Giovanni Faustini for performance in Venice in 1644, two years after L’incoronazione di Poppaea saw the light of day. Through the course of Ormindo we follow the adventures of two pairs of lovers as they betray, deceive and flee from each other before the inevitable happy ending. A death scene in prison for the eponymous prince and his sweetheart Erisbe is marked by a grave pathos that sounds down the centuries – at least since Raymond Leppard exhumed the score from total obscurity.

Conducting Ormindo at the 1967 Glyndebourne Festival, Leppard spearheaded the modern revival of Cavalli’s fortunes. Critics noted the conductor’s significant revisions and rearrangements, but they were almost unanimous in their gratitude at hearing and seeing on stage the work of a pioneering opera composer for the first time, and in performances that did full justice to both music and drama. Leppard and Glyndebourne assembled a sumptuous continuo section and cast well-schooled for the time in the ornate language of seventeenth-century Venetian opera.

The popular and critical success of Ormindo at Glyndebourne gave rise to a sequel, with Leppard’s similarly imaginative realisation of Calisto, which has also been reissued by Eloquence (482 9382). L’Ormindo has long been unavailable and the package includes Raymond Leppard’s original note and a synopsis.

‘Leppard [...] welds all his forces together to produce one of those wonderfully integrated performances that still characterizes Glyndebourne at its best.’ Opera magazine, April 1969

‘Every note here sounds perfectly wonderful. The Glyndebourne performers are all first-rate.’ High Fidelity, June 1969

‘Isabel Garcisanz as the Page nearly steals the show, although Anne Howells conveys much of the heroine Erisbe’s fascination ... Hugues Cuenod as Erice manages to be funny without ever being embarrassing because of his impeccable musical taste.’ Musical Times, August 1969

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard

Reviews

August 2019

It’s magnificent, but it’s not Cavalli as we hear him nowadays. Who cares? Raymond Leppard’s Glyndebourne version is lush and utterly beguiling with Anne Howells as a deeply satisfying Erisebe.

Cavalli: L'Ormindo

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