Tormento d'amore

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Bostridge is at his best in those pieces requiring technically adroit command and intelligent poise...The sunlight returns at the end when Bostridge serves up a wonderfully captivating performance... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 18th Feb 2022
Catalogue No: 9029503707
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 68 minutes

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Sartorio: Orfeo: Sinfonia

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Ian Bostridge
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Cavalli: Io resto solo? ... Misero, così va (from Eliogabalo)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Stradella: Soffria, sperena (from Il Corispero)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Cesti: Berenice (from Il Tito)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Cesti: L’Argia: Sinfonia

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Ian Bostridge
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Caresana: Tien ferma Fortuna (from Le Avventure di una fede)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Provenzale: Deh rendetemi ombre care (from La Stellidaira)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Provenzale: Il schiavo di sua moglie: Sinfonia

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Ian Bostridge
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Provenzale: Che speri o mio core (from Il Schiavo di sua moglie)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Legrenzi: Il Totila: Sinfonia

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Ian Bostridge
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Vinci, Leonardo: Siroe, Act 1

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

"Se il mio paterno amore"

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"Gelido in ogni vena"

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Fago: Il Faraone sommerso: Sinfonia

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Ian Bostridge
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Fago: Il faraone sommerso, Act 1: "Nuove straggi e spaventi”

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Vivaldi: Gelido in ogni vena (from Il Farnace, RV711)

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

anon.: Anonimo: Lu cardillo

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

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Interview, Ian Bostridge on Tormento d'amore

28th March 2022

The English tenor discusses his recent album of arias from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian operas, featuring music by composers including Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella and Sartorio.

With the 10 arias on Tormento d’amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century – often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, Sartorio and Legrenzi were active, and Naples, home to Provenzale, Caresana, Vinci and Fago. In addition to arias – two of them in world premiere recordings – the album offers five instrumental sinfonie and a traditional Neapolitan song, ‘Lu cardillo’, or ‘The Goldfinch’, a songbird closely associated with Naples. Bostridge is partnered by conductor Antonio Florio and his ensemble Cappella Neapolitana.

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April 2022

Bostridge is at his best in those pieces requiring technically adroit command and intelligent poise...The sunlight returns at the end when Bostridge serves up a wonderfully captivating performance of the traditional Neapolitan song, ‘Lu cardillo’.

March 2022

Ian Bostridge applies his lieder-singer intelligence to these operatic snapshots, for which his familiar expressive wail has an effective place.

May 2022

In sum, Bostridge’s highly musical and intelligent approach ensures the recital is excellent publicity for that neglected species, the Baroque tenor.

February 2022

Italian opera may not be Bostridge's usual stomping-ground - and he's at his most compelling when the emphasis is on torment rather than love - but his ever-incisive word-painting pays real dividends throughout this programme of baroque rarities, as does the contrast between his slightly astringent tone and the full-blooded playing of Cappella Neapolitana. The numb horror of Vivaldi's 'Gelido in ogni vena' (echoes of Winter from The Four Seasons here) registers keenly, especially when set aside Vinci's very different setting of the same text.

18th February 2022

Leaping and writhing through Vivaldi, Cavalli, Stradella and lesser-known composers, he certainly does more than pass muster, especially in the 11-minute epic extracted from Vivaldi’s Il Farnace and an equally large aria by Antonio Cesti. The instrumentalists, conducted
by Antonio Florio, are excellent, similarly the recording...Think of this as Bostridge’s holiday album.

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