ANTONIO CALDARA, THE CERVANTES OPERAS
In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, La Ritirata and Josetxu Obregón have created a programme for Glossa sallying forth on the back of music composed by Antonio Caldara and inspired by El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Antonio Caldara was neither the first nor the last composer to have his compositional ingenuity sparked off by Cervantes’ timeless masterpiece. He may well have been propelled forwards by his own experiencing the Spanish soundscape within a century of the publication of the two parts of the Don Quijote: Barcelona was a working “port of call” for Caldara after Mantua and Rome and before Vienna. For the Viennese court he wrote a pair of operas (with librettos by GC Pasquini): Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa and Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria, and from these works Obregón – like Caldara also a cellist – has put together a selection of arias.
Soloists María Espada, Emiliano González Toro and João Fernandes invest their abundant collective artistry in bringing to life a rapid series of Cervantine characters, not least the Spanish knight and his squire. Interspersed between these vocal contributions are a series of instrumental ballets composed for these operas by Nicola Matteis, who also worked at the Viennese court.
ANTONIO CALDARA (c1670-1736)
THE CERVANTES OPERAS
Arias y ballets instrumentales de las óperas a
‘Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa’ (Viena, 1727) y
‘Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria’ (Viena, 1733)
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Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
1. Introduzione. Aria (instr.)
2. Aria “Per tanti obbligazioni Signor” (Diego).
Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria
3. Recitativo “Da sì austera virtù tuo cor” (Altisidora)
4. Aria “Quel cor, che non vogl’io” (Altisidora)
Nicola Matteis (c1670-1737): Balletto Primo per li Falconieri (instr.)
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
5. Aria
6. Entre
7. Gigue
8. Menueto
9. Aria “Si l’abbiamo, Ricciardetto” (Don Chisciotte)
10. Aria “Penso di già che appena” (Altisidora)
11. Aria “Giacche debe andar così” (Sancio)
Nicola Matteis: Ballo di Paesani, e Satiri (instr.)
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
12. Aria per li Vilani
13. Aria per Burlar sanco panco
14. Aria per li Vilani [2]
15. Aria per li Bacanti
16. Tempo di Passapie
17. Aria per li Satiri
18. Aria grotesca
19. Recitativo “Sancio amico” (Don Chisciotte, Sancio)
20. Aria “Primieramente, Sancio” (Don Chisciotte, Sancio)
21. Aria “Addio, Signor Padrone” (Sancio)
Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria
22. Nicola Matteis: Aria (instr.)
23. Recitativo “Scoperto, e in odio” (Ramiro)
24. Aria “Confida al vento la sua speranza” (Ramiro)
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
25. Aria “Venga pure in campo armato” (Don Chisciotte)
26. Aria “A dispetto del vento, e dell’onda” (Don Alvaro)
Nicola Matteis: Ballo di Cavalieri Erranti (instr.)
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
27. Aria [1]
28. Aria [2]
29. Sarabanda
30. Nicola Matteis: Tempo di Ciacona (instr.)
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CREDITS
Josetxu Obregón | Cello and Artistic Direction
María Espada | Soprano
Emiliano González-Toro | Tenor
João Fernandes | Bass
LA RITIRATA
Hiro Kurosaki | Concertino
Pablo Prieto, Daniel Pinteño, Beatriz Amezúa | Violins
David Glidden | Viola
Tamar Lalo | Recorders
Guillermo Peñalver | Recorder and Flute
Daniel Ramírez, Laura Díez | Oboes
Xisco Matas | Violone
Eyal Strett | Bassoon
Franziska Fleischanderl | Salterio
Daniel Oyarzabal | Organ
Ignacio Prego | Harpsichord
David Mayoral | Percussion
Daniel Garay | Baroque Wind Machine
Manuel Prieto y Federico Prieto | Sound Engineers
Olivier Fourés | Musical Advisor
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Recorded in Madrid (Universidad Autónoma)
May 2016 | (p) & © 2016 NOTE 1 MUSIC
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Catalogue: GCD 923104
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