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Special offer. Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti

Carlo Vistoli, Hugh Cutting (countertenors), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti

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Carlo Vistoli brings both pathos and rage to Medea's vehement outpourings...Equally compelling is Hugh Cutting's interpretation of Vivaldi's Cessate, omai cessate. His youthful countertenor...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20255 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti

Carlo Vistoli, Hugh Cutting (countertenors), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

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Carlo Vistoli brings both pathos and rage to Medea's vehement outpourings...Equally compelling is Hugh Cutting's interpretation of Vivaldi's Cessate, omai cessate. His youthful countertenor...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20255 out of 5 stars

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Pursuing the ‘new practice’ introduced by Monteverdi, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century composers in the Italian tradition explored myriad human emotions. From Monteverdi to Handel and Vivaldi, Carlo Vistoli and Hugh Cutting vie with each other in virtuosity throughout a programme tailor-made for them by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants.

  • Release date: 6th Jun 2025
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Catalogue number: HAF8905347
  • Length: 68 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Monteverdi: Scherzi musicali: Damigella tutta bella, SV 235
Work length2:14
Steffani: La lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo: Aita, Fortuna
Work length2:07
Fontana, G B: Sonata settima a doi violini
Work length5:16
Caldara: Medea in Corinto
Work length16:08
I. Sinfonia
Track length2:30
II. Recitativo. Dunque, Giasone ingrato
Track length1:38
III. Aria. Non rispondi e non mi guardi
Track length3:57
IV. Recitativo. Ma tu parti sdegnoso
Track length0:55
V. Aria. Avverti che il mio sdegno
Track length2:10
VI. Recitativo. Pur non rispondi,e parti
Track length0:42
VII. Accompagnato. Voi, del baratro orrendo
Track length1:41
VIII. Aria. A far le mie vendette
Track length2:35
Handel: Trio Sonata in C Minor, HWV 386a: III. Andante
Work length3:04
Bononcini, G B: Duetti da camera, Op. 8 No. 7, Sempre piango: I. Duetto. Sempre piango e dir non so
Work length4:57
Bononcini, G B: Duetti da camera, Op. 8 No. 7, Sempre piango: II. Recitativo. No, no, restane in pace
Work length0:30
Bononcini, G B: Duetti da camera, Op. 8 No. 7, Sempre piango: III. Aria ‟Non sei più l'idolo mio"
Work length2:34
Bononcini, G B: Duetti da camera, Op. 8 No. 7, Sempre piango: IV. Recitativo. Cintia ingrata e crudele
Work length0:49
Bononcini, G B: Duetti da camera, Op. 8 No. 7, Sempre piango: V. Aria. Al bel dardo d'un tuo sguardo - Recitativo. Morirò, sì morirò
Work length2:41
Bononcini, G B: Duetti da camera, Op. 8 No. 7, Sempre piango: VI. Duetto. Sono questi del cor gl'ultimi fiati
Work length2:11
Vivaldi: Cantata RV684 'Cessate, omai cessate' for alto & strings
Work length11:29
I. Recitativo accompagnato. Cessate, omai cessate
Track length1:47
II. Aria. Ah, ch'infelice sempre
Track length5:00
III. Recitativo accompagnato. A voi dunque ricorro, orridi spechi
Track length1:21
IV. Aria. Nell'orrido albergo
Track length3:21
Caldara: Sonata Op. 2 No. 12: Ciaccona in B-Flat Major
Work length5:02
Handel: Caro autor di mia doglia, HWV182b
Work length6:40
I. Larghetto - Adagio. Caro autor di mia doglia
Track length2:20
II. Andante. No, no, che d'altrui che di te mai non sarò
Track length2:05
III. Allegro, ma non troppo. Dagli amori flagellata
Track length2:15
Vivaldi: Gloria e Himeneo, RV 687: In braccio de' contenti
Work length2:36

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Awards and reviews

September 2025

Carlo Vistoli brings both pathos and rage to Medea's vehement outpourings...Equally compelling is Hugh Cutting's interpretation of Vivaldi's Cessate, omai cessate. His youthful countertenor is beautifully controlled: warm, natural, expressive but never histrionic.
5 out of 5 stars

July 2025

Carlo Vistoli and Hugh Cutting make for superb duet partners and keen communicators...Their impressively dramatic performances contain deliciously modest moments leading to music-making of great subtlety.

4th June 2025

I have no wish to sully the memory of Alfred Deller,..But hearing the contemporary countertenors Carlo Vistoli and Hugh Cutting, who deliver such easy virtuosity in William Christie’s latest baroque excursion with his ensemble Les Arts Florissants, is to experience an altogether more vigorous level of dramatic characterisation and technical finesse.
4 out of 5 stars
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