Composer: Michaël Haydn
Performer: Aleksandra Zamojska, Ulrike Hofbauer, Lydia Teuscher, Nicholas Spanos
Orchestra: Salzburger Hofmusik
Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555288-2
Release: 2021
Size: 544 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Endimione
01. Introduzione
Endimione, Act I
02. Nice, Nice, che fai
03. Non ti celar
04. Dunque fallace ancora
05. Va’ pure
06. Quel ruscelleto
07. Care selve romite
08. Dimmi che vaga
09. Se provassi una volta
10 .Nell’amorosa face
11. Lode al Ciel, che partissi
12. Selve amiche
13. Se non m’inganni
CD 02
Endimione, Act II
01. Dove, dove ti sprona
02. Vado per un momento
03. Ferma, Diana, ascolta
04. Se s’accende
05. Odimi, Alceste
06. Ofa che m’ami
07. Mi addita, o bella Nice
08. Nice, tu fuggi in vano
09. Misero Endimione!
10. Amor, che nasce con la speranza
11. Se il tuo laccio è si caro
12. Viva e trionfi il Nume arciero
Michael Haydn wrote his Italian »Serenata« to a libretto by Metastasio on the theme of the lover’s grief felt by the goddess Diana, who took vows of chastity without thinking that she might be hit by Amor’s arrows. This opera in two acts from 1778 celebrated its premiere during Michael Haydn’s lifetime but then was forgotten for more than two centuries; it was first performed again in full in Salzburg in 2018 and now is finally available on cpo. The performance was a cooperative venture of the Institute for Mozart Interpretation, Salzburger Hofmusik, and Johann Michael Haydn Society.
The term »serenata« should not be mistakenly equated with serenade. It refers to musical tributes for instruments and voices performed mostly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for occasions such as coronations, weddings, and birthdays and ranging in genre from the secular cantata to the full-scale opera. After the successful performance drehpunktkultur.at wrote: Johann Michael Haydn, the great Joseph’s ‘little brother,’ the ‘Salzburg Haydn,’ is always good for surprises. Wolfgang Brunner introduced the composition with humorous wit and supplied finely felt and energetic accents at the harpsichord, also in the arias. His approach to the performance of the work was perfect and in original sound. The Hofmusik – and, in its sole short appearance, the Mozart University Vocal Ensemble – performed with animo and sympathetic feeling. The audience was extremely pleased.