Kate Lindsey: Tiranno | Alpha ALPHA736

Kate Lindsey: Tiranno

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA736

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th May 2021

Contents

Artists

Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano)
Nardus Williams (soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
Arcangelo

Conductor

Jonathan Cohen

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV110

Monari, Bartolomeo

La Poppea

Monteverdi, Claudio

L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)
» Addio, Roma!
» Or che Seneca e morto
» Pur ti miro
» Son risoluto al fine

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Il Nerone
La morte di Nerone

Artists

Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano)
Nardus Williams (soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
Arcangelo

Conductor

Jonathan Cohen

About

Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen (following Arianna in 2020, ALPHA576) to the figure of Nero. Scarlatti, Handel and Monteverdi wrote works focusing on this tragic protagonist and his entourage, including his mother Agrippina and his wives (Poppaea and Octavia). Interpreted with incredible intensity by the American mezzo-soprano, the programme features world premiere recordings of two cantatas: Alessandro Scarlatti’s La morte di Nerone (c.1690) and Bartolomeo Monari’s La Poppea (1685). Tenor Andrew Staples and soprano Nardus Williams join Kate Lindsey for duets from L’incoronazione di Poppea, including the sensual ‘Pur ti miro’.

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Reviews

Emperor and poet spin whispered, ever more erotic lines in drooling celebration of love. The players of Arcangelo deftly match their subtle colours. In the celebrated duet Pur ti miro, Lindsey is joined by the rising-star soprano Nardus Williams as Poppea, both pressing the dissonant harmonies almost to a point of distortion, to expressive and ecstatic effect.
The Observer 30 May 2021
[Kate Lindsey’s] command of Handel’s powerful recitatives combines stirring dramatic realism with musical fluidity, and she finds powerful characterisations for each aria... All this compelling music, so vitally performed by Lindsey as she ranges fearlessly from raging outburst to intimate confession, exploring countless shades of colour and dynamic along the way, and all so perfectly accompanied by Arcangelo, is a model of what a recital album can be.  Lindsay Kemp
Gramophone July 2021
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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