The latest striking release from soprano Roberta Invernizzi acts as a lightning conductor for this new vocal extravaganza from Glossa devoted to the Italian Baroque composer Francesco Gasparini. Invernizzi finds herself very much home both in the music, but also, so noticeably, with the words: librettos from the likes of Zeno, Piovene or Salvi find this singer exercising her customary intelligence. Carlo Ipata, directing his ensemble Auser Musici, combines his natural and obvious flair for Italian and music of the time - he has also recorded the opera Il Bajazet for Glossa - with the painstaking demands of the research required to identify brilliant arias from slumbering the various shades of neglect. Gasparini wrote some sixty operas, as well as oratorios and many cantatas. For Invernizzi Ipata has crafted a beguiling selection from this abundance of music which proved so successful in both princely soirÃ©es in Rome and public theatres in Venice. Arias come from operas such as Il Roderigo and Amleto and oratorios such as L'oracolo del Fato and Atalia. As well as the cantata, Andate o miei sospiri, composed by Gasparini as part of a challenge undertaken jointly with Alessandro Scarlatti, Ipata and Auser Musici have added an attractive flute concerto written during his time as a teacher at Venice's Ospedale della PietÃ

Tracklist:

Astianatte: Se La Grecia S'armerà
L'oracolo Del Fato: Qui Ti Scrivo O Nome
Ciro: Nell'orror Della Procella
Il Bajazet: Par Che Mi Nasca In Seno
Engelberta: I. Allegro
Engelberta: II. Adagio
Engelberta: III. Allegro
Tamerlano: Svena Uccidi
Tamerlano: Cor Di Padre
Santa Eufrosina: Qui Dal Porto D'ocean
Ambleto: D'ire Armato
L'oracolo Del Fato: Se Non Canti Più
Cantate Da Camera A Voce Sola, Op. 1: I. Andante, O Miei Sospiri
Cantate Da Camera A Voce Sola, Op. 1: II. Se Vedete Il Cor D'irene
Cantate Da Camera A Voce Sola, Op. 1: III. Ma, Di Che Mi Lusingo
Cantate Da Camera A Voce Sola, Op. 1: IV. Se Non V'accoglie In Seno
Concerto In A Major: I. Allegro
Concerto In A Major: II. Siciliana
Concerto In A Major: III. Allegro
Roderico: Non Ha Incendio
Roderico: Non Vo Lasciarti Più
Atalia: Ombre Care

UPC: 8424562229051
Label: Glossa
Release Date: 2.16.18
Format: CD

Gasparini / Invernizzi / Ipata - Gasparini Album (CD)