Drama Queens :

Titel (DE): Drama Queens - 13 selected arias from early baroque to classic
Titel (EN): Drama Queens - 13 selected arias from early baroque to classic
Titel (FR): Drama Queens - 13 selected arias from early baroque to classic
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Herausgeber / Editor: Curtis, Alan
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: Mezzo-Sopran und Klavier / mezzo-soprano and piano
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Verlag / Publisher: Bote & Bock
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 23.01.2013
Ausgabe / Publication: - -
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Seiten / Pages: 88
Verarbeitung: Broschur - Paperback/Softcover
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: mittelschwer - schwer - intermediate - difficult - moyen - difficile
Sprache / Language: Italienisch
Reihe / Series: Il Complesso Barocco Edition
ISMN: M-2025-2343-8
ISMN-13: 979-0-2025-2343-8
ISMN-EAN: 9790202523438
UPC: 884088917913

"This anthology is the result of the collaboration with the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato who had expressed the wish to record a CD with my ensemble "Il Complesso Barocco". It should not just be another compilation of famous arias by Handel or Vivaldi, but a collection of pieces of quite different styles and from different epochs which are linked by a common superordinate topic. () I pointed out to her that there were plenty of wonderful arias and even entire solo scenes which had been sung on the Baroque stage both by female singers and castratos playing the parts of famous historical female rulers and heroines. By suggesting the title "Drama Queens", she reduced the whole thing to a contemporary formula. Our idea was to cultivate extremes, to gather arias that show larger-than-life emotions." (Alan Curtis) This anthology is the ideal companion product to Joyce DiDonato's CD. It is aimed towards all interested performers of intermediate to advanced standard seeking emotive and dramatic rediscoveries from the Baroque and Classical periods.

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Da torbida procella (from Berenice, 1725)* - Giovanni Porta: Madre diletta, abbracciami (from Ifigenia in Aulide, 1738)* - Georg Friedrich Händel: Ma quando tornerai (from Alcina, 1735) - Reinhard Keiser: Lasciami piangere (from Fredegunda, 1715)* - Johann Adolf Hasse: Morte col Fiero aspetto (from Antonio e Cleopatra, 1725) - Georg Friedrich Händel: Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto, 1724) - Antonio Cesti: Intorno all'idol mio (from Orontea, 1656) - Georg Friedrich Händel: Brilla nell'alma (from Alessandro, 1726) - Reinhard Keiser: Geloso sospetto (from Octavia, 1705) - Claudio Monteverdi: Disprezzata regina (from L'incoronazione di Poppea, 1643) - Geminiano Giacomelli: Sposa son disperezzata (from Merope, 1734) - Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Col versar, barbaro, il sangue (from Berenice, 1725)* - Franz Joseph Haydn: Vedi se t'amo (from Armida, 1784) - Reinhard Keiser: Lasciami piangere (from Fredegunda, 1715 (transposed version))* - * First publication

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« Ce recueil est le fruit d'une collaboration avec la mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, cette dernière ayant en effet exprimé le désir d'enregistrer un CD avec mon ensemble "Il Complesso Barocco". L'objectif n'était pas de produire une autre compilation d'airs célèbres de Bach et de Vivaldi mais plutôt une collection de pièces de styles très divers et de différentes époques, réunie autour d'un thème dominant. () Je lui fis remarquer qu'il existe une quantité d'airs merveilleux et même de scènes entières en solo qui furent chantés, dans les théâtres baroques, par des femmes ou des castrats incarnant les souveraines et les héro?nes de l'Histoire. En suggérant le titre « Drama Queens », elle a réussi à réduire le sujet à une formule contemporaine. Notre idée a été de cultiver les extrêmes et de réunir des airs faisant exploser les frontières du sentiment. » - Alan Curtis -

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Da torbida procella (from Berenice, 1725)* - Giovanni Porta: Madre diletta, abbracciami (from Ifigenia in Aulide, 1738)* - Georg Friedrich Händel: Ma quando tornerai (from Alcina, 1735) - Reinhard Keiser: Lasciami piangere (from Fredegunda, 1715)* - Johann Adolf Hasse: Morte col Fiero aspetto (from Antonio e Cleopatra, 1725) - Georg Friedrich Händel: Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto, 1724) - Antonio Cesti: Intorno all'idol mio (from Orontea, 1656) - Georg Friedrich Händel: Brilla nell'alma (from Alessandro, 1726) - Reinhard Keiser: Geloso sospetto (from Octavia, 1705) - Claudio Monteverdi: Disprezzata regina (from L'incoronazione di Poppea, 1643) - Geminiano Giacomelli: Sposa son disperezzata (from Merope, 1734) - Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Col versar, barbaro, il sangue (from Berenice, 1725)* - Franz Joseph Haydn: Vedi se t'amo (from Armida, 1784) - Reinhard Keiser: Lasciami piangere (from Fredegunda, 1715 (transposed version))* - * First publication
Avec des airs de Cesti, Giacomelli, Haendel, Hasse, Haydn, Keiser, Monteverdi, Orlandini et Porta