Handel - ‘Tu fedel, tu costante’ HWV171a & other Italian Cantatas
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72265
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th October 2016
Contents
Works
Cantata HWV84 'Aure soavi e liete'Cantata HWV98 'Cuopre tal volta il cielo'
Cantata HWV102a 'Dalla guerra amorosa'
Cantata HWV134 'Pensieri notturni di Filli' (Nel dolce dell'oblio)
Cantata HWV171a 'Tu fedel? tu costante?'
Giu nei tartarei regni, HWV187
Tacete ohime, HWV196
Artists
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)Klaus Mertens (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Conductor
Ton KoopmanWorks
Cantata HWV84 'Aure soavi e liete'Cantata HWV98 'Cuopre tal volta il cielo'
Cantata HWV102a 'Dalla guerra amorosa'
Cantata HWV134 'Pensieri notturni di Filli' (Nel dolce dell'oblio)
Cantata HWV171a 'Tu fedel? tu costante?'
Giu nei tartarei regni, HWV187
Tacete ohime, HWV196
Artists
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (soprano)Klaus Mertens (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Conductor
Ton KoopmanAbout
Sometime in late 1705 or 1706 Georg Friedrich Handel, like many German composers before him, travelled to Italy, then the fountainhead of European music. During the next three years he paid extended visits to Rome and also spent time in Florence, Venice and Naples. In 1709-10, he returned once again to Florence and Venice. Rather than studying with some Italian master, as others had done, he quickly established himself as a virtuoso performer and composer, enjoying the support of leading patrons and composing numerous cantatas.
Lost music from Handel’s years in Italy rarely comes to light, but in 2015 a previously unknown and largely different version of the cantata “Tu fedel? tu costante?”, HWV 171, was discovered by chance, uniquely preserved in a manuscript belonging to Ton Koopman. A complaint of an injured love, both Handel settings of this text are for soprano, but in the new cantata, HWV 171a, the accompanying ensemble includes an oboe and after the first aria, it sharply diverges from the familiar version. HWV 171a was probably composed in Venice or Florence in late 1706.
Organist, harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman, one of the world’s leading exponents of Baroque music, founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 1979. They have appeared with him on countless recordings, among them his two most ambitious projects: the complete Bach cantatas, a massive undertaking for which he was awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis “Echo Klassik”, a BBC Music Magazine Award and the Hector Berlioz Prize, and the Opera Omnia of Bach’s predecessor, Dieterich Buxtehude, an edition of 30 CDs recorded between 2005-2014. In 2003 he founded his own label Antoine Marchand, a sub-label of Challenge Classics.
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