Vivaldi and others ANDROMEDA LIBERATA
With the recording of Andromeda liberata – their debut on Archiv Produktion – Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra have scored a real coup. This is a newly rediscovered, full concert-length work that languished in obscurity for some 275 years.
Usually it’s in attics, boxrooms or junkrooms that sensational finds like this one are made. But in the case of Andromeda liberata it was the venerable archive of the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice where, in April 2002, the French musicologist Olivier Fourés happened upon the manuscript of an anonymous, early 18thcentury serenata.
When a discovery of the magnitude of Andromeda liberata takes place, the reaction is rather like a volcanic eruption. Regarding the work’s authorship, the scholarly world is, at least for the time being, divided in its opinion. Fourés has been able to prove beyond doubt that the aria “Sovvente il sole” was written by Antonio Vivaldi and, on the basis of various indications, he has suggested the possibility that the entire work may have been composed by Vivaldi. Nevertheless there is mounting evidence that points to a composite score, a “pasticcio”, bringing together pieces by different composers. The renowned Vivaldi specialist Michael Talbot has found unmistakable signs that some of Vivaldi’s leading Italian contemporaries – for example, Giovanni Porta and Tomaso Albinoni – were involved in the composition. The pasticcio was a popular form in Baroque music, and an extraordinarily practical one, because it allowed already existing musical pieces to be recycled by assembling them in newcombinations.
As for the question, “Was it Vivaldi or not?”, the Venice Baroque Orchestra has followed that debate only insofar as it serves the interests of their thrilling recording, about to be issued on Archiv Produktion. Andrea Marcon, the orchestra’s founder and director, considers Vivaldi’s authorship to be entirely plausible, but his and his musicians’ overriding concern has been that of making this exciting, sparkling score accessible to a wider audience. The Baroque sound world here finds ideally sympathetic exponents: the Venice Baroque Orchestra is made up of outstanding instrumentalists who have specialized in the interpretation of early music. After hearing them in concert one London critic declared that it was like hearing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for the very first time. Now, in this recording, posterity actually will be hearing Andromeda liberata for the very first time in over 275 years.
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), Anonymus
Andromeda liberata (Serenata Veneziana)
CD One:
1) Sinfonie 1 & 2 [3:57]
2) Recitativo 1: Popoli amici, in questo fausto giorno [1:55]
3) Coro 1: In (su) queste sponde [2:53]
4) Recitativo 2: È di Giove e di Danae inclita prole [0:44]
5) Aria 1: Quando chiudere pensai [4:50]
6) Recitativo 3: Sciolta dai ceppi e già sottratta a morte [1:36]
7) Aria 2: Un occhio amabile [7:58]
8) Recitativo 4: Oh ingrata, se potesti obliare sì prestoc[1:15]
9) Aria 3: Non ha tranquillo il cor [3:49]
10) Recitativo 5: Signor, qual improvviso dolor [1:02]
11) Aria 4: Se rinforzi in te la speme [2:50]
12) Recitativo 6: Da che il destin mi trasse [1:25]
13) Aria 5: Se uns sorta di strali amor avesse [4:56]
14) Recitativo 7: O vicende funeste de' mortali [1:16]
15) Aria 6: Ruscelletti limpidetti [4:35]
16) Recitativo 8: Figlia non qui dimore [0:23]
17) Aria 7: Madre, lascia ch'io senta in prima il core [1:18]
18) Recitativo 9: Troppo ingrata mi sembri [0:14]
19) Aria 8: Mi piace e mi diletta [1:20]
20) Recitativo 10: Al talamo di Perseo [0:20]
21) Aria 7 (da capo): Madre, lascia ch'io senta in prima il core [1:38]
22) Coro 2: Dall'alto seggio [1:14]
CD Two:
1) Recitativo 11: Che sarà, cuore afflitto?[0:54]
2) Aria 9: Lo so, barbari fati [4:29]
3) Recitativo 12: La tua nemica sorte [1:58]
4) Aria 10: Peni chi vuol ponar [3:37]
5) Recitativo 13: Pria che la Dea triforme [0:46]
6) Aria 11: Dalle superne sfere lieto, Imeneo, discendi [3:19]
7) Recitativo 14: Hai già vinto due volte, o Perseo amato [1:17]
8) Aria 12: Chi è fenice ad ogni foco [5:41]
9) Recitativo 15: Pria che del sole i rai [0:47]
10) Aria 13: Sovvente il sole [9:45]
11) Recitativo 16: Perseo, Andromeda, amici: è tempo ormai [0:51]
12) Aria 14: Con dolce mormorio [6:03]
13) Recitativo 17: Perseo, che tardi più [1:17]
14) Duo: Sposo amato / Cara sposa [3:23]
15) Coro 3: Riconosc'in voi [2:31]
Simone Kermes
Max Cencic
La Stagione Armonica
Sergio Balestracci
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon
2004 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
2 Compact Discs
477 0982 AH 2
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