Composer: Francesco Gasparini, Arcangelo Corelli, Pietro Jacopo Bacci
Performer: Filippo Mineccia
Orchestra: Orchestra Nazionale Barocca dei Conservatori Italiani
Conductor: Paolo Perrone
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Glossa
Catalogue: GCD923527
Release: 2021
Size: 718 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Gasparini: Engelberta
01. Verrò tuo punitor
Gasparini: Eumene
02. Se sciolto il rivoletto
Gasparini: L’oracolo del fato
03. Qui ti scrivo
04. Gasparini: Sinfonia in F Major
Gasparini: Santa Maria Egiziaca
05. Di quest’onde
Gasparini: Antioco
06. Mentre servo alla mia fama
Gasparini: Ambleto
07. D’ire armato il braccio forte
Corelli: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor ‘fatto per la notte di Natale’
08. I. Vivace – Grave
09. II. Allegro
Gasparini: La penitenza gloriosa nella conversione di Santa Maria Egiziaca
10. Se piange l’aurora
Corelli: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor ‘fatto per la notte di Natale’
11. III. Adagio
Bacci: L’umiltà gloriosa o’ vero Sant’Andrea Corsini
12. Già al mio cor
Gasparini: Antioco
13. Vede anche il nido
Corelli: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor ‘fatto per la notte di Natale’
14. IV. Vivace
Gasparini: Santa Maria Egiziaca
15. Del tuo bel volto
Corelli: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor ‘fatto per la notte di Natale’
16. V. Allegro – Largo
Gasparini: Tartaro nella Cina
17. Padre addio
Gasparini: Bajazet
18. No, non discende no
Gasparini: Erode
19. Non sa chi non è amante
Francesco Gasparini was held in high esteem by his contemporaries, as can be easily seen from his curriculum vitae. In Rome he was in the service of the great patrons of the arts Cardinal Pamphili, Marchese Ruspoli and the Borghese family, and in between he was music director at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice for twelve years, at the same time as Antonio Vivaldi.
Gasparini wrote a total of almost 60 operas and nearly 30 oratorios, which were performed in many Italian cities.
The countertenor Filippo Mineccia has cherry-picked the repertoire that suits his voice and presents a portrait of Gasparini’s alto arias. He was very careful to select arias with different effects in order to present Gasparini’s broad dramatic palette.
Slow arias are interspersed with furioso pieces and contrapuntal pieces. Particularly brilliant are the rage arias, in which Mineccia is able to display all his vocal prowess.
In the richly orchestrated and harmonically exciting arias from Gasparini’s oratorios, the Orchestra Nazionale Barocca dei Conservatori Italiani can shine with its qualities.