MONTEVERDI, , Sì dolce è l tormento by Carlo Vistoli, Sezione Aurea Filippo Pantieri
Release date April 2020 Stream, ,Download, ,Buy Following the success of Arias for Nicolino, a musical portrait of the celebrated castrato of Handels era (A427), Carlo Vistoli turns his attention to Venetian opera of the seventeenth century. The Italian countertenor a voice intrinsically beautiful, strong and powerful (Opera Magazine) has been delving into this repertory since the beginning of his international career with specialists such as Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner. In this anthology accompanied by the ensemble Sezione Aurea, the focus is on operatic scenes and chamber music by the leading composers of the time, such as Francesco Cavalli and Claudio Monteverdi, whose famous aria Sì dolce è l tormento exemplifies the linking thread of the arias in this recording: disappointed lovers. They express their disillusion not only through lamenti, but also in a lighter, mor br, br,
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