GF Handel: Caio Fabbricio

GF Handel: Caio Fabbricio

£12.00 – £21.00

The conductor and harpsichordist, Bridget Cunningham brings back to life Handel’s pasticcio opera, Caio Fabbricio first performed in London in 1733 and based on an earlier opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1732) Caio Fabbricio is London Early Opera’s eighth album in the prestigious Handel Series with Signum Records and is a pasticcio opera, a brilliant and well-considered collection of some of the finest 18th century Neapolitan arias by different composers, including Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo, selected and arranged by Handel who composed his own dramatic recitatives.

London Early Opera (LEO) is a vibrant, baroque group of instrumentalists, singers, music teachers, researchers, historians and musicologists on a voyage of rediscovery making glorious baroque music and opera relevant today. As Artistic Director of London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham is a leading exponent of baroque music and continues to create these outstanding recordings with Signum Records exploring Handel’s colourful life, influences and experiences which inspired his magnificent musical legacy.

★★★★ Performance ★★★★ Recording “In this world premiere recording artists shine brightly in a pasticcio opera…Bridget Cunningham directs Caio Fabbricio brilliantly, leading from the harpsichord to energise the other players, and to give them space to exploit juicy passages. The singers’ virtuosity and rich characterisations are delightful…Caio Fabbricio contains much fine music and compels fresh admiration of Handel’s orchestral skills. Execution of this project is uniformly excellent” – BBC Music Magazine

CD SPOTLIGHT “Unreservedly recommended” –  Classical Music Daily.

“Some excellent showpieces” – BBC Radio 3

SKU: SIGCD713

London Early Opera

Bridget Cunningham Director

Release date: 03/06/2022

Catalogue number: SIGCD713

Barcode: 635212071328

“Easier to enjoy this outpouring of vigorously performed baroque music, with seven of the finest young singers working in the early opera sphere: Fleur Barron, Morgan Pearse, Miriam Allan, Anna Gorbachyova-Ogilvie, Hannah Poulsom, Helen Charlston and Jess Dandy. The orchestral playing is strong and agile, directed by Cunningham from the harpsichord” – The Guardian

“Bridget Cunningham has put put together an impressively researched reconstruction and her direction is sure, the players she has assembled accomplished (a shout out for the horns, Gavin Edwards and Richard Bayliss). The recording…balances the voices and orchestra impeccably….London Early Opera deserve fulsome thanks for bringing it back to life.” – Present Arts

“Bridget Cunningham, who has edited Caio Fabbricio for this premiere recording, draws neat and precise playing from her period band…You’ll find plenty to enjoy in a performance of skill, spirit and, where apt, virtuoso panache” – Gramophone

“The singers on this disc impress equally…the music is always vivid and engaging. In the ‘pit’ Bridget Cunningham and her band accompany with sympathy, swagger and, where necessary, virtuosity” – Planet Hugill

“Conductor and harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham directs a quality cast in which the formidable mezzo with deep timbre Fleur Barron (Pirro) shines” – L’ingenieur Constructeur

CD1

Concerto No 2 in D major

Act 1

  1. Recitative: Popolo tarentino, qual’è cotesta
  2. Aria: In così lieto giorno
  3. Recitative: Quanto profondo il lusso, e quanto salde
  4. Aria: Fissa ne’ sguardi miei
  5. Recitative: Figlia, Volusio
  6. Aria: Il trono, il regno
  7. Recitative – Aria: Tutte elle dunque – Vezzi, lusinghe e sguardi
  8. Recitative: lo vivo ancora, o Dèi Quirini, e vivo
  9. Aria: Per amor se il cor sospira
  10. Recitative: Vien’ Pirro, e seco il padre
  11. Aria: Quando verrà quel giorno
  12. Recitative: Pirro amante di Sestia!
  13. Aria: Caro sposo, amato oggetto

Act 2

  1. Recitative: lo Bircenna io di Glaucia
  2. Aria: Amore e lei gurasti
  3. Recitative – Aria: Inopportuno incontro! – Non ha più pace I’amor geloso
  4. Recitative – Aria: Numidico lione, ircana tigre – Giovani cori amanti
  5. Recitative: Caro Volusio, o tu dei voti miei
  6. Recitative: Al legato roman Turio
  7. Recitative: Tanto, Volusio, temi I’aspetto mio?
  8. Aria: Troppo fieri, disdegnose
  9. Recitative: Che Volusio sia estinto
  10. Aria: Al foco del mio amore
  11. Recitative: Se in vani contrasti anco induguate
  12. Aria: Non mi chiamar crudele
  13. Recitative – Aria: Torna la speme in seno – Nocchier che teme assorto

Act 3

  1. Recitative: Quanto ti deggio!
  2. Aria: È grande e bella quella mercede
  3. Recitative: Principessa, nel tuo guist dolor veggo il mio torto
  4. Aria: Volgi a me gl’affeti tuoi
  5. Recitative: Sestia manca a la fede
  6. Aria: Quella è mia figlia e’l mio
  7. Recitative: Poiché lunge è’l mio bene, nulla si tema
  8. Aria: Vedrai morir costante
  9. Recitative: Giovane incauto
  10. Recitative: Volusio avverti che il guidice di Pirro in me ti ascolta
  11. Lo sposo va a morte
  12. Recitative – Aria: Qualche a l’amor – Varcherò le flebil onde
  13. Recitative: Nel da me condannato Volusio
  14. Recitative: Teco morir vo’ anch’io
  15. Aria: Vorrei da lacci sciogliere
  16. Coro: Con la Pace, le Grazie e il Piacere
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