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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Fernando (2007)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: 4 Feb 2025 23:18:07

Fernando is the abandoned first draft of Handel’s opera Sosarme (performed at the King’s Theatre in February 1732)… Curtis’s pacing and shaping of Handel’s music is consistently subtle, astutely rhetorical and firmly connected to the libretto text. Although it might be possible to explore firmer muscularity and create a more vivid sense of surprise in the quicker music, there is something to be said for Curtis’s shrewd reservation of such effects for when it is truly vital for the drama. For instance, Marianna Pizzolato’s powerful arias “Vado al campo” and “Cuor di madre e cuor di moglie” are potently delivered moments of severe agitated passion that are all the more effective for the sweeter elegance that pervades much of this lovely score. The sublime duet “Per le porte” is sung with poetic intimacy by Lawrence Zazzo and Veronica Cangemi. Zazzo sings his elegantly heroic aria “Alle sfere della gloria” with supple clarity. Max Emanuel Cencic is impressive as the reticent Sancio, unwilling to be used as a pawn in his ruthless grandfather Altomaro’s Machiavellian plans to tear the royal family apart. Antonio Abete gives an ideal account of the villain’s arias… Fernando is one of Curtis’s most consistent and pleasing Handel opera recordings.
–David Vickers

Performer:
Fernando - Lawrence Zazzo
Elvida - Veronica Cangemi
Isabella - Marianna Pizzolato
Altomaro - Antonio Abete
Sancio - Max Emanuel Cenčić
Dionisio - Filippo Adami
Alfonso - Neal Banerjee
Il Complesso Barocco
Conductor - Alan Curtis

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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Fernando, Re di Castiglia HWV 30
CD1:
01. Ouverture: I. Largo
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Allegro
04. Atto I. Recitativo: Di mio padre al furore (Alfonso)
05. Recitativo accompagnato: Voi miei fidi compagni (Alfonso)
06. Coro militare: Alla strage, alla morte, alla vittoria!
07. Recitativo: Madre e regina (Elvida, Isabella)
08. Recitativo accompagnato: Rasserena, Isabella (Isabella, Elvida)
09. Aria: Rendi 'l sereno al ciglio (Elvida)
10. Recitativo: Giusti numi (Isabella, Elvida)
11. Aria: Forte inciampo al suo furore (Isabella)
12. Recitativo: Sancio, mio prence (Altomaro, Sancio)
13. Aria: Fra l'ombre e gli orrori (Altomaro)
14. Recitativo: Come più de l'usato (Fernando, Sancio)
15. Aria: Sì, sì, minaccia (Sancio)
16. Recitativo: Dionisio, sono anch'essi, i re, mortali (Fernando, Dionisio)
17. Aria: Il mio valore (Fernando)
18. Recitativo: Così dunque cospira (Dionisio)
19. Aria: La turba adulatrice (Dionisio)
20. Recitativo: Amici, troppo oscuro (Alfonso, Isabella, Elvida, Coro)
21. Aria: Due patri del core (Isabella)
22. Recitativo: O diva Irene (Elvida)
23. Aria: Dite 'pace', e fulminate (Elvida)
24. Atto II. Arioso: Padre, germano e sposo (Elvida)
25. Sinfonia militare
26. Recitativo: Ma, o dei, ritorna il figlio trionfante! (Isabella, Alfonso, Elvida)
27. Duetto: Se m'ascolti (Alfonso, Isabella)
28. Recitativo: Fu castigo e non dono (Dionisio, Sancio, Altomaro)
29. Aria: Se discordia ne disciolse (Dionissio)
30. Recitativo: E così tu disprezzi (Altomaro, Sancio)
31. Aria: So ch'il Ciel ben spesso gode (Sancio)
32. Recitativo: Quanto più Sancio a sdegno (Altomaro)
33. Aria: Sento il cor che lieto gode (Altomaro)
CD2:
01. Recitativo: Grazie al Cielo (Elvida, Fernando)
02. Duetto: Per le porte del tormento (Fernando, Elvida)
03. Recitativo: S'oggi smorzasti l'ire (Isabella, Fernando, Elvida)
04. Aria: Alle sfere della gloria (Fernando)
05. Recitativo: Alfonso amato (Fernando, Alfonso, Altomaro, Isabella, Elvida)
06. Aria: Vado al campo (Isabella)
07. Recitativo: Mio sposo, ahi! qual orrore (Elvida, Fernando)
08. Aria: In mille dolci modi (Fernando)
09. Recitativo: Parmi che un dolce raggio (Elvida)
10. Aria: Vola l'augello dal caro nido (Elvida)
11. Atto III. Sinfonia
12. Recitativo: Mi siegue la regina (Altomaro, Dionisio, Sancio, Isabella)
13. Aria: S'io cadrò per tuo consiglio (Dionisio)
14. Recitativo: Sancio, dov'è il tuo zelo? (Isabella, Sancio)
15. Aria: Cuor di madre e cuor di moglie (Isabella)
16. Recitativo: A deluder le frodi (Sancio)
17. Aria: Sincero affetto (Sancio)
18. Recitativo: Per la segreta porta (Alfonso, Elvida, Fernando)
19. Aria: M'opporrò da generoso (Fernando)
20. Recitativo: Correte pure a fiumi, amare lacrime (Elvida)
21. Aria: Vorrei, né pur saprei (Elvida)
22. Recitativo: Altomaro, si renda libero lo steccato (Dionisio, Altomaro)
23. Aria: Tiene Giove in mano il folgore (Altomaro)
24. Recitativo: Ah padre, eccoti al piede (Sancio, Dionisio, Altomaro, Alfonso, Isabella, Elvida)
25. Duetto: Tu caro, caro sei (Elvida, Fernando)
26. Recitativo: Fugga da questo suol (Fernando)
27. Coro: Dopo l'ire sì funeste

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