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Compact Disc CDH55279

£6.99

Recorded in St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, on 19–21 April 1994
Recording Engineer
TONY FAULKNER
MIKE DUTTON
Recording Producer
MARTIN COMPTON
Executive Producers
JOANNA GAMBLE
CHARLOTTE DE GREY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, 2007
Originally issued on Hyperion CDA66745

Duration: 74'58
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Front illustration: Rinaldo and Armida in Armida’s Magic Garden by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Opera Arias and Sinfonias

EMMA KIRKBY soprano
KATHARINA ARFKEN oboe
THE BRANDENBURG CONSORT
ROY GOODMAN conductor

Contents:

    Sinfonia (Griselda)
  1. [2'15]
  2. [2'22]
  3. [0'43]

  4. Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori (Griselda, Act III)   [4'40]
  5. Agitata da due venti (Griselda, Act II)   [5'43]
  6. Non ti lusinghi la crudeltade (Tito Manlio, Act II)   [7'01]

    Sinfonia (Ottone in villa)

  7. [2'46]
  8. [1'03]
  9. [0'45]

  10. Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia (Ottone in villa, Act I)   [2'01]
  11. L’ombre, l’aure, e ancora il rio (Ottone in villa, Act II)   with Liliana mazzarri soprano [6'49]
  12. Ferma, Teodosio (L’Atenaide, Act III)   [9'12]

    Sinfonia (Tamerlano, also known as Il Bajazet)

  13. [2'22]
  14. [2'54]
  15. [1'22]

  16. Non mi lusinga vana speranza (L’incoronazione di Dario, Act II)   [5'22]
  17. Se mai senti spirati sul volto (Catone in Utica, Act II)   [8'55]
  18. Se in campo armato (Catone in Utica, Act II)   [6'28]
Sleeve Notes

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'A disc which will delight both Vivaldi enthusiasts and lovers of Baroque music generally. Excellent recorded sound and strongly recommended on all counts' (Gramophone)

'This is a very attractive disc — all the more as it's on Hyperion's budget label. The band plays with crisp articulation, the recorded sound is excellent, and Emma Kirkby, in a recording from 1994, is jaw-droppingly virtuosic in the showstopping semiquaver runs and wide-ranging leaps of the more agitated heroine's arias' (Colchester Gazette)

'The runs and roulades are simply dazzling' (Fanfare, USA)

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