Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido & Cleopatra (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido & Cleopatra (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:08 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Classical
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The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens – Dido & Cleopatra – and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from the 1640s to 1740. A firework display of arias, virtuosic and tragic by turns, written by the leading personalities of Baroque music (Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse) and composers still awaiting rediscovery such as Sartorio, Graupner and the Venetian Castrovillari. For this programme built like a tragedy around the queens of Egypt and Carthage, whom she interprets with the passion and fervour that have made her reputation, Anna Prohaska is accompanied by one of today’s finest Baroque ensembles, Il Giardino Armonico; under the inspired guidance of their director Giovanni Antonini (who is also a dazzling recorder soloist in some of the arias), they keep us on the edge of our seats from start to finish. A top star in Germany, Anna Prohaska also sings on the world’s leading operatic stages, from La Scala to Convent Garden by way of Aix en Provence and Salzburg.

Tracklist:

01. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture (01:47)
02. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Aria “Ah! Belinda, I Am Press’d with Torment” (04:42)
03. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido, Königin von Karthago: Aria “Holdestes Lispeln der spielenden Fluthen” (02:05)
04. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Aria “Non voglio amar” (02:31)
05. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – The Tempest, the Second Musick: Lilk (00:50)
06. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – The Tempest, the Second Musick: Curtain Tune (05:08)
07. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – La Cleopatra: Aria “A dio regni, a dio scettri” (06:08)
08. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Aria “Quando voglio” (02:32)
09. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – The Tempest, the First Musick: Galliard (01:34)
10. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Chaconne “Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman” (02:39)
11. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido, Königin von Karthago: Recitativo accompagnato “Der Himmel…” (01:22)
12. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido, Königin von Karthago: Aria “Infido cupido” (02:12)
13. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido, Königin von Karthago: Aria “Agitato da tempeste” (02:31)
14. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act II: Recitativo accompagnato “Che sento? O dio!” (01:07)
15. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act II: Aria “Se pieta di me non senti” (07:19)
16. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Didone abbandonata: Aria “Già si desta la tempesta” (04:00)
17. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo: Sonata decimaquinta a quattro (04:51)
18. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Didone, Act II Scene 2: Recitativo & Aria “Re de’Getuli altero” (03:19)
19. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra: Aria “Morte col fiero aspetto” (04:04)
20. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Passacaille del seigneur Louigi (02:50)
21. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Aria “Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain” (01:49)
22. Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: “Thy Hand, Belinda…When I Am Laid in Earth” (04:37)

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