Handel: Italian Cantatas

Four little-known pastoral cantatas by the young Handel in new and stylishly Italianate recordings.

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Artists: Carlotta Colombo (soprano)
Maria Dalia Albertini (soprano)
Marta Fumagalli (contralto)
Fantazyas
Roberto Balconi (harpsichord & conductor)

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In 1706, 21-year-old Handel arrived in Italy as a prodigious celebrity, already having caught the eye and won the patronage of the Medici family in Florence. Further honours and rewards were heaped on him when he moved to Rome the following year and came under the sponsorship of the most cultured and influential of the city’s noble families. It was for them that he wrote a string of secular cantatas, on time-honoured and popular themes of arcadian and amorous bliss.

These Roman cantatas have received more attention from scholars and performers in recent years, but the four presented here are still relatively unfamiliar, beginning with the brief, hunting-themed Diana cacciatrice HWV79. This cantata’s striking feature is an aria with echo soprano and trumpet solo, while Alpestre monte is an anguished tale of betrayal and suicide, including a pair of ravishing arias (again for soprano).
Faithfulness is once more the vexed question posed by the album’s best-known cantata, Tu fedel? Tu costante?

Tracklist:
Diana Cacciatrice in D Major, HWV 79:
0:00 La marche
1:50 Recitativo - Alla caccia, alla caccia
2:21 Aria - Foriera la tromba
6:10 Coro - Alla caccia, alla caccia
6:39 Arietta - Di questa selva, tra dubbie vie
7:57 Coro - Alla caccia, alla caccia

Alpestre monte in C Minor, HWV 81:
8:35 Accompagnato - Alpestre monte e solitaria selva
9:25 Aria largo e staccato - Io so ben ch’il vostro orrore
14:37 Recitativo - Quindi me n’vengo a voi per cercar morte
15:35 Aria (Adagio) - Almen dopo il fato mio

Tu fedel? Tu costante? in G Minor, HWV 171:
20:13 Sonata
22:30 Recitativo - Tu fedel? Tu costante? Ah, non è vero!
23:33 Aria un poco allegro - Cento belle ami, fileno
28:40 Recitativo - L’occhio nero, vivace
29:30 Aria - Se licori, filli ed io
31:11 Recitativo - Ma se non hai più d’un sol cuore in petto
31:45 Aria - Se non ti piace amarmi
34:46 Recitativo - Ma il tuo genio incostante
35:36 Aria - Sì, crudel, ti lascerò

Olinto pastore arcade alle glorie del tebro, HWV 143:
36:38 Sonata
37:58 Aria (Andante), Olinto - Oh! Come chiare e belle
41:00 Recitativo, Olinto & Tebro - Ma quel che più d’ogn’altro
42:02 Aria (Largo), Tebro - Chi mi chiama, or che non sono
45:31 Recitativo, Olinto & Tebro - Dell’arcadi foreste
46:33 Aria (Allegro), Tebro - Più non spero di lauro Guerriero
49:49 Recitativo, Olinto & Tebro - Per te non più rubella
51:11 Aria (Adagio), Gloria - Caro Tebro, amico fiume
55:28 Recitativo, Gloria - Sì, la Gloria son io
56:13 Aria, Gloria - Tornami a vagheggiar
58:52 Recitativo, Olinto - Tebro, tu non rispondi?
59:25 Aria, Olinto - Al suon che destano belliche squille
1:01:18 Recitativo, Tebro & Gloria - Di stupor, di diletto
1:02:22 Aria (Allegro), Tebro - Io torno a sperare
1:03:26 Recitativo, Gloria - Di sì giuste speranze
1:06:21 Aria, Gloria - Astro clemente
1:06:59 Recitativo, Olinto & Tebro - Tebro, ti dissi il vero
1:09:30 Aria, Olinto - Alle voci del bronzo Guerriero
1:10:39 Coro, Olinto, Gloria & Tebro - Viva un astro sì bello

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