Scarlatti: Cantatas for bass & obbligato instruments [Import]

Alessandro Scarlatti (Composer), Savaria Baroque Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Savaria Baroque Orchestra
• Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti
• Audio CD (February 27, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hungaroton
• ASIN: B000MX7SYG
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,155 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Il timido mio core, chamber cantata for soprano & continuo ('Immagini d'orrore'): 1. Aria. Immagini d'orrore

2. Il timido mio core, chamber cantata for soprano & continuo ('Immagini d'orrore'): 2. Recitativo. Se dubbioso il mio core

3. Il timido mio core, chamber cantata for soprano & continuo ('Immagini d'orrore'): 3. Aria. Amo, si, ma sempre temo

4. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 1. Recitativo. Splendeano in bel sembiante.

5. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 2. Aria. Fu da me cosi gradita

6. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 3. Recitativo. Deh, se qual tigre ircana

7. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 4. Aria. Crude furie che giacete

8. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 5. Recitativo. Sdegno, campione audace

9. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 6. Aria. Già l'alma è tradita

10. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 7. Recitativo. Ma folle, e che vaneggio?

11. Splendeano in bel sembiante, chamber cantata for bass & continuo: 10. Aria. ... che ogni guerra d'Amor finisce in pace

12. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 1. Sinfonia

13. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 2. Recitativo. Mentre un zeffiro arguto

14. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 3. Aria. Non più lacci, non più strali

15. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 4. Recitativo. Vuol Cupido ch'io mora

16. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 5. Aria. Sirena ch'alletti

17. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 6. Recitativo. Stelle, barbare stelle

18. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 7. Aria. Navigar l'Egeo d'Amore

19. Mentre un zeffiro arguto, chamber cantata for soprano or bass & continuo: 8. Arioso. Mio cor, se di fortuna

20. Mi tormenta il pensiero (No. 2), chamber cantata for alto or bass & continuo ('Amante parlando con il pensiero'): 1. Recitativo. Mi t

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basso Cantatas with awe-inspiring, May 13, 2007

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A. d'Argny "Baroque passion" (France,) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scarlatti: Cantatas for bass & obbligato instruments (Audio CD)

I've seen and listened Peter Fried as Bluebeard in Opera de Lyon,and he was fantastic.
I've got this album from my husband .
After the first moments I felt ,
that on this Cd the music and the bass voice meets in wonderful harmony.
The arias are performed with full emotional feelings by the singer.
I know ,that the other A.Scarlatti's works,
which are written for soprano,or alt voices,
are much more virtuoses.
These canata's texts mostly are about the love,
and this bass voice is full of awe-inspirings feelings and colors.
So ,I offer it for to have,and to spent a pleasant pastime!!!

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ABOMINATION!!! AN AMATEURISH 'VOCE NOIOSA'!!!, April 11, 2007

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V. FH "Victorio Emmanuel, Rè d'Italia" (RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scarlatti: Cantatas for bass & obbligato instruments (Audio CD)

I cannot believe it!!! Is it a professional bass singer?!!!!!
I have never listened a more amauterish sound in this repertoire, and without any kind of intimacy. This guy sings off pitch all the time, I mean, out of the tonal center, and with a monotonous tone, without color, without life!!!!
It won't allow you to sleep, since the voice itself is UGLY to death!!! And what a terrible diction!!!
Why to record this guy? Why?!!!!!!
I cannot believe there is not in Hungary (or somewhere else) a singer with better qualification and a truly respectable sound. Not this unsteady sound. You know, he is just gargling marble!! Why not someone like Laszlo Polgár? I'm sure he could sing it exceptionally.
I cannot recommend it. I won't listen to this disc again, and I'm deeply upset. It's a suffering experience! Poor guy...this only happens because someone in the past was not honest. This guy could choose another line of work...
And shame on Hungaroton!!!!
It`s a pity, for the repertoire in this disc is given in a world premiere recording...