Magdalena Kožená, Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Il Giardino dei sospir (2019)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: Jan. 26, 2025

Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená hasn't often sung Baroque music. Thus, it is all the more impressive that when she does, she devises really innovative programs with unusual music. Her enthusiasm for the project may be gauged by her comment here: "I could hardly imagine more passionate, savage, uninhibited yet loving and caressing companions for these desperate heroines than Vaclav Luks and the musicians of Collegium 1704." She's right about the musicians, yet the real spotlight is on Kožená herself. The program consists of secular cantatas from the first half of the 18th century; this genre has been neglected amidst the general rediscovery of Baroque opera. They're short pieces with a full orchestra, and the middle-sized Collegium 1704 works well here; a good-sized group is needed to stand up to one of the Handelian sopranos or castrati who would have sung this music originally. Handel is the main attraction, with an early (1707) Italian cantata, Qual ti riveggio, oh Dio, HWV 150, presented in full. It's a wonderful, little-known work, and you could sample the fabulous death wish aria "Si muora, si muora." It's in the league of Purcell's "When I am laid in earth", from Dido and Aeneas. What compels the imagination though, is the variety of styles and moods leading up to the Handel, which is at the end. The works by Marcello, Gasparini, and especially Leonardo Leo are all later than the Handel, and they move in the direction of the newer and simpler style of Gluck that was to come. Kožená reins in her voice to pure elegance here, and she puts across the intimacy of the texts. The inclusion of instrumental sinfonias by Marcello and by Leonardo Vinci is also interesting and adds to the verisimilitude of the performance. A real keeper from Kožená and, as her comments suggest, lots of fun. The only thing that's less than perfect is the sound, with a chilly Prague church detracting from the theatrical atmosphere.
–James Manheim

Performer:
Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks, conductor

Tracklist:
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Arianna abbandonata
01. Prestissimo
02. Adagio assai
03. In minuet. Presto
04. Recitative: Dove, misera, dove
05. Aria: Come mai puoi
06. Recitative: Se fia che pensi, o caro
07. Aria: Che dolce foco in petto
Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730)
Sinfonia from Maria dolorata
08. (Allegro)
09. Largo
10. (Minuet)
Francesco Gasparini (1661-1727)
Atalia
11. Aria: Ombre, cure sospetti
Domenico Sarro (1679-1744)
Introduzione from Didone abbandonata
12. (Allegro)
13. Largo e staccato
14. Minuetto
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
Angelica e Medoro: Or ch’è dal sol difesa
15. Aria: Or ch’è dal sol difesa
16. Recitative: Siedi, siedi ben mio
17. Aria: Che detto avranno mai
George Frideric Handel(1685-1759)
Agrippina, HWV 6
18. Sinfonia
Qual ti riveggio, oh Dio, HWV 150, HWV 150
19. Recitative: Qual ti riveggio, oh Dio
20. Aria: Empio mare, onde crudeli
21. Recitative: Amor, che ascoso ne’ suoi vaghi lumi
22. Aria: Se la morte non vorrà
23. Recitative: Questi dalla mia fronte
24. Aria: Si muora, si muora
25. Recitative: Ecco, gelide labbra

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