CARE GEMME

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
Vi ricorda o boschi ombrosi, act II, single scene
from the opera L’Orfeo, SV 318, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, 1607

Son rubini amorosi, act II, scene 6
from the opera L’incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308,
Venice, Teatro Ss. Giovanni e Paolo 1643

Francesco Cavalli (1602 – 1676)
La bellezza è un don fugace, act II, scene 8
from the opera Xerse, Venice, Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 1655

Bernardo Pasquini (1637 – 1710)
Sinfonia
Grave – Allegro
from the oratorio Il martirio dei santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia, Modena, 1687

Alessandro Melani (1637 – 1703)
O quanto è soave, act II, scene 8
from the opera Il carceriere di sé medesimo, Florence, Accademia degl’Infuocati, 1681

Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728)
Ogni core può sperar, act II, scene 7
from the opera Servio Tullio, Munich, Hoftheater, 1686

Domenico Sarro (1679 – 1744)
Miei guerrieri, act I, scene 12
from the opera Il Vespasiano, Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo, 1707

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725)
Sinfonia
from the serenade Clori, Dorino e Amore, R 113, Naples, Palazzo Reale, 1702

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Deh ti piega, act II, scene 3
from the opera La Fida Ninfa, RV 714, Verona, Teatro Filarmonico, 1732

Domenico Sarro
Introduzione in Re maggiore (Sinfonia)
Allegro – Adagio
from the opera Partenope, Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo, 1722, F-Pn , D-12741

Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692 – 1753)
Ah, fermate il pianto, act III, scene 3
from the opera Temistocle, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1738

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)
Fatto inferno… Pastorello d’un povero armento, act III, scene 6
from the opera Rodelinda, Regina de’ Longobardi, HWV 19,
London, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1725

With the term “gems”, it is possible to indicate different precious stones, collected in a necklace, as a metaphor for the choice of arias that will be proposed. But, in Italian, the same word also indicate the buds of a plant; if we consider this other meaning, then it becomes even more significant, because the root of these flowers is Claudio Monteverdi, the father of melodrama. Through the voice of Laurence Kilsby, starting from Monteverdi, the concert will explore other well-known and lesser-known Italian authors, to reach the other extreme giant of the long musical era that we identify with the term Baroque: Georg Friedrich Handel, who with Monteverdi has in common the perfect painting of characters in music, in an unmistakable trait.