Bella dama: Baroque Cantatas

Bella dama: Baroque Cantatas

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Total playing time [58:29]

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Raffaele Pé (countertenor)
Spiritato!

Making their Resonus debut with this album of Italian Baroque cantatas are the talented young countertenor Raffaele Pé and dynamic London-based early music ensemble Spiritato!

Entitled Bella dama, this album features Baroque cantatas by Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti. Focusing on the image of the lady in Italian eighteenth-century music and art, these works include Vivaldi’s Cessate, omai cessate; Scarlatti’s Bella dama di nome Santa and Infirmata vulnerata; and the rarely recorded Salve Regina by Porpora.

Album Booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

Antonio Vivaldi
Cessate, omai cessate
1. Cessate, omai cessate
2. Ah ch'infelice sempre
3. A voi dunque ricorro
4. Nell'orrido albergo ricetto di pene

Nicola Porpora
Salve Regina
5. Salve Regina
6. Ad te clamamus
7. Ad te suspiramus
8. Eia ergo, advocata nostra
9. Illos tuos misericordes
10: O clemens, o pia

Alessandro Scarlatti
Bella dama di nome Santa
11. Introduttione
12. Tu sei quella
13. Dal nome tuo credei
14. Fedeltade, ne pur ottien ricetto
15. Il nome non vanta

Infirmata vulnerata
16. Infirmata vulnerata puro deficit amore
17. O care, o dulcis amor
18. Vulnera percute, transfige cor
19. Cur, quaeso, crudelis es factus?
20. Vicisti, amor, et cor meum
21. Semper gratus desiderabilis

“

'A strong contender for lovers of baroque vocal music; Raffaele Pé is a discovery, indeed, a challenge to the likes of Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky.'

- MusicWeb International, 'Recording of the Month'

'This is a promising sign, not only from the Italian countertenor Raffaele Pé but also from the recently founded band Spiritato! [...] if anyone still doubts that the elder Scarlatti is a great composer in his own right, just listen to Pé and Spiritato! performing 'Vulnera percute, transfige cor.'
Gramophone

'A strong contender for lovers of baroque vocal music; Raffaele Pé is a discovery, indeed, a challenge to the likes of Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky.'
MusicWeb International ('Recording of the Month')

Credits
© 2012 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2012 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10115
Producer, engineer & editor: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262790144
Cover Image: With Closed Eyes (1890), by Odilon Redon