Franz Joseph Haydn - Arie per un'amante

Franz Joseph Haydn - Arie per un'amante
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | HQ Scans | 332mb
DHM - Sony Music | Recorded: 2009 | Released: 2009
Nuria Rial - L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Michi Gaigg

 

 

The title of this album comes from the fact that Haydn wrote most of these insertion arias (arias written to show off the special talents of a singer in a particular production, and substituted for the arias by the opera's composer) for his lover, Italian soprano Luigia Polzelli. Thank goodness these delightful arias have survived, although the operas into which they were originally inserted, by composers like Pasquale Anfossi, Alessandro Guglielmi, and Francesco Bianchi, are forgotten. Haydn's inventiveness and benevolence overflow in this charming music. If there is any criticism of this assortment of arias, it's that they are all relentlessly cheerful and sprightly, and all in major keys, even those with texts like, "Unhappy and unfortunate I am." While not all these arias reveal Haydn at his most dramatically astute, they find him at his most genial. One of the arias, La moglie quando è buona, is in fact laugh-out-loud funny. Spanish soprano Núria Rial and Austrian mezzo-soprano Margot Oitzinger divide the arias. Their voices are well matched: exceptionally pure, supple, and focused, with an unmannered, effortless sounding delivery and immaculate technique. In only one aria, Infelice sventurata, in an unmercifully low passage, does Rial show any strain. Michi Gaigg leads L'Orfeo Barockorchester in a sparkling, beautifully blended accompaniment. The sound is warm and spacious, but always clear and clean.

Nuria Rial (soprano)
Margot Oitzinger (mezzo-soprano)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg


Tracklist

Symphonie G-dur Hob. I,81 - I. Vivace
Dica pure chi vuol dire Hob. 24b,8 (Soprano)
Quando la rosa Hob. 24b,3 (Soprano)
Signor voi sapete Hob. 24b,7 (Soprano)
Il meglio mio carattere Hob. 24b,17 (Mezzo)
La moglie quando è buona Hob. 24b,18 (Mezzo)
Vada adagio, signorina Hob. 24b,12 (Soprano)
Sono Alcina, e sono ancora Hob. 24b,9 (Soprano)
La mia pace, oh Dio Hob. 24b,19 (Soprano)
Infelice sventurata Hob. 24b,15 (Soprano)
Via siate bonino Hob. 24b,23 (Mezzo)
Chi vive amante, so che delira Hob. 24b,13 (Soprano)
D'una sposa mescinella Hob. 24b,2 (Soprano)
Son pietosa, son bonina Hob. 32,1b (Mezzo)