Handel: Partenope "Ma quai note di mesti lamenti" Andreas Scholl

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Handel: Partenope "Ma quai note di mesti lamenti" Andreas Scholl

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High resolution and stereo sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN23oTLpF2Y&fmt=18 If you want to download the full radio broadcast recording of Copenhagen Partenope, here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ET1H8BNT Enjoy! G.F. Handel (1685-1759) Recitativo: Non chiedo, o miei tormenti! Aria: Ma quai note di mesti lamenti from Act III, Sc. 6 of Partenope, HWV 27 Comic opera in three acts Libretto by: Silvio Stampiglia Premiere: King's Theatre, London, 24 February 1730 Original Cast in 1730: Partenope: Anna Maria Strada del Pò, soprano Rosmira: Antonia Maria Merighi, contralto Arsace: Antonio Maria Bernacchi, alto castrato Armindo: Francesca Bertolli, mezzo-soprano Emilio: Annibale Pio Fabri, tenor Ormonte: Johann Gottfried Riemschneider, basso In this video: Andreas Scholl, countertenor (as Arsace) Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen Det Kongelige Teater (Gamle Scene), Copenhagen 11 October 2008 The cast: Partenope: Inger Dam-Jensen Arsace: Andreas Scholl Armindo: Christophe Dumaux Rosmira: Tuva Semmingsen Emilio: Bo Kristian Jensen Ormonte: Palle Knudsen Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen A review of the premiere that was performed on October 4: http://mostlyopera.blogspot.com/2008/10/copenhagen-andreas-scholl-tuva.html Handel wrote Partenope in 1730, a time in his life when he was free to choose a wider range of librettos.It was Handel's first comic opera which broke away from the Opera Seria tradition and was rejected by the Royal Academy of Music because of its frivolous nature with relatively few extended arias and more recitative. Arsace (originally written for an alto castrato) is one of three men who admire Partenope, the mythological Queen of Naples.. Handel's Partenope is rich in musical interest, handling in traditional form a plot that has elements of comedy in it. Recitativo ARSACE Non chiedo, oh miei tormenti, che mi lasciate in pace; sol per brevi momenti date qualche riposo al cor d'Arsace! Vieni, pietoso oblio, ristora il petto mio cadente e lasso, e de' riposi miei sia letto un sasso. (S'ode una sinfonia mesta.) Aria Ma quai note di mesti lamenti qui d'intorno echeggiando sen vanno? Ah! che al suon di querele dolenti a dormir m'invita l'affanno. (Si adormenta.) Translation: Recitativo ARSACES I ask ye not, ye woes I bear, to leave me long in pleasing peace; some moments only from his care Arsaces' fighting soul release. Come, sweet oblivion, haste away, restore my weary wounded breast; my anguish for a while delay, and marble make my bed of rest. (A melancholy symphony is heard.) Aria What notes that mourn in such a solemn sound, so melancholy moving breath around? Ah! 'tis the murmur that my cares have chose to lull their weary clamours to repose. (Sleeps.)

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