Composer: Michelangelo Rossi, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Sartorio, Marc Antonio Ziani, Antonio Giannettini, Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Georg Friedrich Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Nahuel di Pierro, Ensemble Diderot
Conductor: Johannes Pramsohler
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audax
Catalogue: ADX11210
Release: 2024
Size: 1.52 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Rossi: Erminia sul giordano
01. Sinfonia per introdutione del prologo
Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308
02. Act II Scene 3: Amici, è giunta l’hora (Seneca, Famigliari)
Cavalli: Ercole amante
03. Act V Scene 2: Ma qual pungente arsura (Ercole)
Sartorio: La Prosperità di Elio Seiano
04. Act III Scene 10: Selve amiche (Tiberio)
Ziani: Alba Soggiogata da’ Romani
05. Act II Scene 6: Ritornello con 2 trombe
06. Act II Scene 6: La fronte a quei superbi (Metio)
07. Act II Scene 6: All’armi, all’armi (Metio)
Ziani: Il duello d’amore e di vendetta
08. Sinfonia
Giannettini: L’ingresso alla gioventù di Claudio Nerone
09. Act III Scene 8: Fra l’horror d’ombre terribili (Aspasio)
Bononcini: Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
10. Sinfonia
11. i, torno, o bella (Giulio Cesare)
12. Occhi belli, occhi possenti (Giulio Cesare)
Händel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72
13. Part II: Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori (Polifemo)
Händel: Agrippina, HWV 6
14. Act II Scene 4: Nella Britannia vinta (Claudio)
15. Act II Scene 4: Cade il mondo (Claudio)
Scarlatti: La caduta de’ decemviri
16. Sinfonia
Scarlatti: La gloria di primavera, Part II
17. Trassi dal nulla il tutto (Giove)
18. Dell’alba e dell’aurora (Giove)
Vivaldi: Tito manlio, RV. 738
19. Act I Scene 2: Se il cor guerriero (Tito Manlio)
Händel: Orlando, HWV 31
20. Act II Scene 13: Ah sleale, ah spergiura (Orlando)
21. Act III Scene 6: O voi del mio poter (Zoroastro)
22. Act III Scene 6: Sorge infausta una procella (Zoroastro)
Vivaldi: Rinaldo, HWV 7a
23. Act I Scene 3: Sibillar gli angui d’aletto (Argante)
Fathers, gods, philosophers, emperors, sorcerers … The bass voice is typically used on the opera stage to convey nobility and authority. Although it often represent the resting and pivotal point of an entire opera, and its depth, power, and softness were regularly highlighted already in the Baroque period, bass singers are usually not the focus of attention. In this recital specially tailored for Nahuel Di Pierro, the bass voice, accompanied by the Ensemble Diderot, takes center stage. Through a journey across 100 years of opera history, the program showcases the range and brilliance of compositions for this voice. With his spectacular vocal range of two and a half octaves, Nahuel Di Pierro interprets the great arias from Seneca’s death to Polyphemus from Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with exceptional sensitivity and mastery. And it wouldn’t be Johannes Pramsohler and his Ensemble Diderot if the program didn’t also include some spectacular new discoveries.