GRAMMY® Award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joins conductor Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco for this electrifying program of royal arias from the 17th and 18th century. It features compositions by luminary figures including Handel and Vivaldi, as well as, lesser-known composers including Orlandini and Porta. Her previous album for Virgin Classics, Diva, Divo, won a GRAMMY® Award in February 2012. DiDonato calls this themed recital her “most exciting recording project to date…high drama, profound emotion, fearless vocal writing, time-stopping passages, historical significance and real discovery.”
Reviews
“…then there is Joyce DiDonato, who consistently finds the golden mean.” – Alex Ross,New Yorker
Tracklist:
1. Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Da torbida procella (from Berenice, 1725)
2. Giovanni Porta: Madre diletta, abbracciami (from Ifigenia in Aulide, 1738)
3. George Frederick Handel: Ma quando tornerai (from Alcina, 1735)
4. Reinhard Keiser: Lasciami piangere (from Fredegunda, 1715)
5. Johann Adolf Hasse: Morte col fiero aspetto (from Antonio e Cleopatra, 1725)
6. George Frederick Handel: Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare, 1724)
7. Antonio Cesti: Intorno all’idol mio (from Orontea, 1656)
8. George Frederick Handel: Brilla nell’alma (from Alessandro, 1726)
9. Reinhard Keiser: Geloso sospetto (from Octavia, 1705)
10. Claudio Monteverdi: Disprezzata regina (from L’incoronazione di Poppea, 1643)
11. Geminiano Giacomelli: Sposa son disprezzata (from Merope, 1734)
12. Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Col versar barbaro il sangue (from Berenice, 1725)
13. Joseph Haydn: Vedi se t’amo (from Armida, 1784)
Personnel:
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis, conductor
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