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| 1. L'Olimpiade - Aria: Lo seguitai felice |
| 2. Demofoonte - Aria: Misero pargoletto |
| 3. La clemenza di Tito - Recitativo: Numi assistenza |
| 4. La clemenza di Tito - Aria: Opprimete i contumaci |
| 5. L'Olimpiade - Aria: Mentre dormi amor fomenti (Licida) |
| 6. Temistocle -Aria: Non tremar vassallo indegno |
| 7. La clemenza di Tito - Aria: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto |
| 8. Scipione nelle Spagne - Aria: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto |
| 9. Ifigenia in Aulide - Aria: Tutto fa nocchiero |
| 10. Adriano in Siria - Aria: Tutti nemici e rei |
| 11. Lucio Papirio dittatore - Recitativo: Son io Fabio? |
| 12. Lucio Pairio dittatore - Aria: Troppo è insoffribile fiero martir |
| 13. Temistocle - Aria: Contrasto assai più degno |
| 14. Enone - Aria: Vado, o sposa |
| 15. Achille in Sciro |
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Philippe Jaroussky revives a number of forgotten works by a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Handel and Vivaldi – the Venetian-born Antonio Caldara, who made his career in Mantua, Barcelona, Rome and, finally, Vienna. All the arias – several recorded for the very first time – come from operas with librettos by Metastasio (1698 –1782), whose noble texts defined the genre of opera seria. Both Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, first performed in 1791, and Caldara’s opera of the same name, first performed nearly 60 years previously, were settings of Metastasio, while the writer’s text for Caldara’s Demofoonte, first performed in 1733, went on to inspire more than 70 stage works, including operas by Gluck, Paisiello, Piccinni, Graun and Cherubini.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had to get a CD by this phenomenon having come across Philippe Jaroussky on 'Altus'. This meteor has relatively recently flashed into the firmament and has already reached his apogee. Naturally, he specialises in the 17th and 18thc. repertoire, helping to rehabilitate forgotten masters like Stefano Landi (d.1639) and Antonio Caldara (d.1736). This CD is a selection of arias, for castrati, from the opera of Caldara. They are arranged so that the strident and dramatic alternate with the calm and reflective, enabling us to appreciate the vocal contrasts of which Jaroussky is capable. This amazing virtuoso bounds through the opening aria, displaying tremendous agility in the coloratura sections, dazzling us again with agitato somersaults in arias 6 and 8. Then from aerial flamboyance he can descend to the faintest pianissimo, knowing intuitively how to employ his perfect tremolo (arias 5,7,9).His singing can ascend as high as the lark and sound as sweet. The bright, white voice dissolves into a rainbow of colours - mellifluous (aria 2), melodious (aria 14), majestic (aria 13) with a lilting effect in aria 12. Each performance is respectfully shared by singer and orchestra and concludes with a quiet, pizzicato section, augmented with a choir.This modest and unpretentious end is the perfect complement to the beginning. A booklet, bound into the CD, offers a biography of Caldara and the words of his arias in English, French and German. This is a lesson in how genius and technique, honed by years of dedication, can reach beyond the stratosphere, where it will leave you gasping.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Excellent piece of work. Jaroussky is a brilliant and one of the best counter-tenor singers that I have heard in my life. I will be collecting a lot more of his works. Worth every penny.
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I have 4 CDs of Jaroussky and I may never have enough of his performance! Excellent CD, I love it very much. Could recommend to anyone/everyone - it is impossible to be disappointed with such an outstanding music, signer and performance!
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