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Handel Italian Cantatas
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 7
RecommendedRecorded in the English Church, Den Haag and in Saint-Michel en Thiérache in January 2007 & June 2009
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (bass), Furio Zanasi (bass) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
The vocalists here are electrifying...Above all, it is the instrumentalists that make this a stellar disc; their eloquence equals and at times overflows that of the vocalists. The invention... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 6
RecommendedOlinto, pastore arcade (1708)
Roberta Invernizzi, Yetzabel Arias Fernández (sopranos), Romina Basso (alto) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
Passionate as well as poetic, Fabio Bonizzoni's interpretation draws us irresistibly into Handel's affective states. The vocalists and the band are of the same high standard. …Roberta Invernizzi... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th December 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 4
Aminta e Fillide, Rome (1707-1708)
Maria Grazia Schiavo (Aminta), Nuria Rial (Fillide), Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord/director)
The fourth instalment of La Risonanza's survey of Handel's youthful Italian cantatas is devoted to two works probably composed for the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli in Rome. There is no doubt... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 2 - Cantatas for Marchese Ruspoli
Emanuela Galli & Roberta Invernizzi (sopranos)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (director)
Galli has a stylish approach, agile in fast movements, ornaments decorating rather than distorting Handel's lines. She is though, so bound up in the anguish of unrequited love, the common thread,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 5 - Rome, (1707)
Recorded in Saint-Michel en Thiérache, France, in June 2008
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Yetzabel Arias Fernández (soprano) & Romina Basso (alto)
La Risonanza
The performance here is one of smouldering sensuality. The verve of the director's gestures generates huge excitement, while the sharp contrast of colours between each singer's voice - the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 1
Cantatas for Cardinal Pamphili, Rome (1706-1707)
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord/director)
Roberta Invernizzi is thoroughly at home with the expressive nuances and stylistic vocabulary of the late Baroque… —
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 3
Cantatas for Cardinal Ottoboni
Raffaella Milanesi (soprano) & Salvo Vitale (bass)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord/director)
It was once believed that the Venetian-born Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni was Handel's principal patron during the composer's exciting youthful years in Rome. Scholars now shy away from that verdict... —
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