0608917292527

Bononcini: Cantate Per Contralto Con Violini

Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor, Alois Muhlbacher

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Format: CD

Cat No: CC72925

Release Date:  09 February 2024

Label:  Challenge Classics

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0608917292527

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    The fourteenth disc by Ars Antiqua Austria and Gunar Lezbor for Challenge Classics presents world premiere recordings of three Cantatas for countertenor and violins.

    Under the rule of the enlightened Emperor Joseph I, many composers from the north of Italy took up appointments in Vienna. Antonio Bononcini was one of the most progressive composers of his time. We present here three cantatas by Bononcini from 1706. They were most probably first presented in musical academies. His amorous chamber cantatas captivate through their intimate, timeless beauty. The sensual violins engage in an entertaining competition with the longing, dreamy lines of the alto voice. The cantatas recorded here all concern themselves with the sorrows and longings of love for a distant partner.

    They seem to have been conceived as a cyclic construction in which each piece exists in relationship to the others.Bononcini was a master of musical rhetoric and achieves a masterly combination of musical figures with poetic phrasing. These sensuous works were most probably performed on the occasion of noble academies. From the turn of the century, musical presentations were often designated as academies. With this new definition, academies were little by little also presented by lesser nobles and later even by the bourgeoisie.



    Mühlbacher sings these laments expressively, with smooth tone and accurate semiquaver runs. – Gramophone

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lontananza - Cantata in contralto con VV. di Antonio Bononcini - Rez. Mentre al novo apparir
      • 2. Piu barbaro martire
      • 3. Miracolo e d'amor
      • 4. Colorita ho nel pensiero
      • 5. In quelle chiome d'oro
      • 6. Quanto piu cara
      • 7. Cosi mentre dispera
      • 8. Aria S'io ritorno
      • 9. Tanto avezzo - Cantata con violini - Aria Tanto avezzo
      • 10. Dal di che chiuse i rai
      • 11. Da primi nodi suoi
      • 12. Ma nel di lei bel foco
      • 13. M'uccida Amore
      • 14. Sopra l'orme d'Irene - Cantata - Rez. Sopra l'orme d'Irene
      • 15. Uscite, o gemiti
      • 16. Se dell'idol ch'adoro
      • 17. Piu molesta e la tempesta
      • 18. Torna, deh, torna, Irene
      • 19. Dal tuo rigo