Arias for Caffarelli
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Label: Naive
Cat No: V5333
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 2nd September 2013
Contents
Works
L'IpermestraArtists
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)Il Pomo d’Oro
Conductor
Riccardo MinasiWorks
L'IpermestraArtists
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)Il Pomo d’Oro
Conductor
Riccardo MinasiAbout
Thanks to his outstanding virtuosity and heart-rending expressivity, countertenor Franco Fagioli has turned out to be one of the most exciting vocal artists of recent times. Frequent partner of Cecilia Bartoli, specialist in Handel and Monteverdi, he is now firmly established on the European Baroque scene.
'Arias for Caffarelli' is Fagoli’s debut album on Naïve and this release follows his recent triumph in the renowned Vinci 'Artaserse', also featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Max Emmanuel Cencic: “Franco Fagioli, in pure, resonant voice, gives an outstanding performance as Arbace.” (The New York Times)
Castrato Caffarelli was probably the best rival of Farinelli in the 18th century in Italy (mainly in Napoli and Rome). Caffarelli was renowned for both his extravagance and his extraordinary vocal skills. Recorded here for the first time, those extremely virtuoso arias by the most famous Neapolitan composers of that time were waiting to find a voice able to give them a new life.
The full-colour 76-page booklet includes essays and pictures about the music life in Naples, Caffarelli and Farinelli, etc.
Sound/Video
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1Hasse - Fra l'orror della tempesta (Siroe)
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2Hasse - Ebbi da te la vita (Siroe)
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3Vinci - In braccio a mille furie (Semiramide)
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4Leo - Misero pargoletto (Demofoonte)
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5Porpora - Passaggier che sulla sponda (Semiramide)
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6Pergolesi - Lieto cosi talvolta (Adriano in Siria)
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7Leo - Sperai vicino il lido (Demofoonte)
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8Cafaro - Rendimi piu sereno (L'Ipermestra)
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9Sarro - Un cor che ben ama (Valdemaro)
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10Manna - Cara ti lascio, addio (Lucio Vero)
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11Manna - Odo il suono di tromba guerriera (Lucio Papiro)
Europadisc Review
The music written for Caffarelli, designed to showcase his remarkably agile voice, was sometimes of debatable artistic merit, yet – as this stunning new disc demonstrates – it could be astonishingly effective in the right hands. Here, that role is taken by the hugely talented countertenor Franco Fagioli, and the results are a pure delight from start to finish. Most dazzling are the arie di bravura, starting with ‘Fra l’orror della tempesta’ from Hasse’s Siroe (1733), and including Leonardo Vinci’s ‘In braccio a mille furie’ (Semiramide riconosciuta, 1744), Gennaro Manna’s ‘Odo i suono di tromba guerra’ (Lucio Papiro dittatore, 1748), and ‘Un cor che ben ama’ from Caffarelli’s debut role in Domenico Sarro’s Valdemaro, when the precocious singer was just sixteen! All are sung with an unerring brilliance and agility, with wonderful decorative flourishes and decorations.
Fagioli is just as much at home in the long, sensitive lines of the arie di sostenuto, meltingly so in Leonardo Leo’s ‘Misero pargoletto’ (Demofoonte, 1741) and the gorgeous chromaticism of pergolesi’s ‘Lieto così talvolta’ (Adriano in Siria, 1741). Some arias combine the best of both styles, most spectacularly in Leo’s ‘Sperai vicino al lido’ (also from Demofoonte). Fagioli himself describes Caffarelli as ‘a “pop star” of his time’, and he travelled widely round Europe in the high style that he felt was his due. Yet his home ‘base’ was in Naples, and this selection of arias brilliantly demonstrates why the Neapolitan operatic style was such a hit in the second quarter of the eighteenth century.
Exceptionally lively and sensitive accompaniments are provided by the recently-founded ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro under the direction of violinist Riccardo Minasi: little wonder, for Minasi is one of the most experienced leaders and soloists of the younger generation in the baroque repertoire. The playing, alongside Fagioli’s astonishing singing, will surely win many new enthusiasts for this music, and the recording is marvellously vivid.
If all that weren’t enough, the disc is packaged in a particularly opulent digipack including a lavishly illustrated 76-page full-colour booklet, with articles in French and English by fellow countertenor Nicholas Clapton (professor at the Royal Academy of Music) and musicologist Patrick Barbier. Full Italian texts are provided, with French and English translations.
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