Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Joseph Haydn
Performer: Kate Lindsey, Jonathan Cohen
Orchestra: Arcangelo
Conductor: Jonathan Cohen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2020
Size: 1.36 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Alessandro Scarlatti:
L’Arianna (Ebra d’amor fuggia), H. 242
01. I. Introduzione (Allegrissimo – Allegro) – II. Recitativo “Ebra d’amor fuggia”
02. III. Aria “Pur ti stringo o moi diletto”
03. IV. Recitativo “Ribaciolla Teseo”
04. V. Aria “Stringa si dolce nodo ardente amore”
05. VI. Recitativo “Ma poi che desta vide”
06. VII. [Aria] “Ingoiatelo”
07. VIII. [Accompagnato] “Ah che son con Teseo”
08. IX. [Aria] “Struggiti, o core”
09. X. [Recitativo – Arioso] “Si disse e tanto pianse”
Georg Friedrich Händel:
Ah! Crudel, nel pianto mio, HWV 78
10. I. Sonata
11. II. Aria “Ah, crudel, nel pianto mio”
12. III. Recitativo “Non sdegnerai d’amar”
13. IV. Aria “Di quel bel che il ciel ti diede”
14. V. Recitativo accompagnato “Balena il cielo”
15. VI. Aria “Per trofei di mia costanza”
Joseph Haydn:
Arianna a Naxos, Hob. XXVIb:2
16. I. Recitativo “Teseo moi ben, ove sei?”
17. II. Aria “Dove sei, moi bel tesoro”
18. III. Recitativo “Ma, a chi parlo?”
19. IV. Aria “Ah! che morir vorrei”
After a first album dedicated to Weill, Zemlinsky and Korngold (Alpha272), Kate Lindsey explores here her other repertoire of choice, the music of the eighteenth century. In partnership with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, she has recorded three cantatas focusing on the myth of Ariadne, abandoned on the island of Naxos after helping Theseus kill the Cretan Minotaur by giving him a ball of thread so that he could find his way back through the labyrinth. Alessandro Scarlatti’s Ebra d amor fuggia (1707) relates Ariadne’s flight, drunk with love , alongside Theseus, for whom she expresses her tenderness in the magnificent aria Pur ti stringo . The same year, the young Handel composed his cantata Ah crudel, nel pianto mio, this time with an anonymous abandoned lover as the subject. In 1789, Joseph Haydn also turned to Ariadne, in a cantata for which several orchestrations exist. The one recorded here is by Sigismund Neukomm, Haydn’s pupil between 1797 and 1804. Three faces of disappointed love, brought to passionate life by the mezzo-soprano.