Bella dama: Baroque cantatas Raffaele Pe

• 1Recitative: Cessate, omai cessate01:58
• 2Aria: Ah, ch'infelice05:51
• 3Recitative: A voi dunque corro01:20
• 4Aria: Nell'orrido albergo03:34
• 5Salve Regina04:34
• 6Ad te clamamus01:58
• 7Ad te suspiramus02:42
• 8Eia ergo, advocata nostra01:24
• 9Illos tuos misericordes03:16
• 10O clemens, o pia02:33
• 11Introduction03:30
• 12Recitative: Tu sei quella, che al nome sembre giusta01:01
• 13Aria: Dal nome tuo credei03:22
• 14Recitative: Fedeltade ne pur ottien ricetto01:36
• 15Aria: Il nome non vanta di santa colei03:56
• 16Aria: Infirmata, vulnerata05:23
• 17Recitative: O care, o dulcis amor00:46
• 18Aria: Vulnera, percute04:05
• 19Aria: Cur, quaeso, crudelis02:42
• 20Recitative: Vicisti, amor, et cor meum cessit amori00:43
• 21Aria: Semper gratus, desiderabilis02:01
• Total Runtime58:15

Info for Bella dama: Baroque cantatas

Making their Resonus debut with this album of Italian Baroque cantatas are the talented young countertenor Raffaele Pé and dynamic London-based early music ensemble Spiritato!

Entitled Bella dama, this album features Baroque cantatas by Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti. Focusing on the image of the lady in Italian eighteenth-century music and art, these works include Vivaldi’s Cessate, omai cessate; Scarlatti’s Bella dama di nome Santa and Infirmata vulnerata; and the rarely recorded Salve Regina by Porpora.

'A strong contender for lovers of baroque vocal music; Raffaele Pé is a discovery, indeed, a challenge to the likes of Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky.' (MusicWeb International, 'Recording of the Month', December 2012)

Raffaele Pé, counter-tenor
Kinga Ujszászi, violin (1st)
James Toll, violin (2nd)
Joanne Miller, viola
Alice Manthorpe Saunders, cello
Kate Aldridge, bass
László Rózsa, recorder
Jadran Duncumb, theorbo
Nicolás Mendoza, harpsichord & organ

Producer, Engineer and Editor: Adam Binks
Assistant Engineer: Steven Binks
Orchestra manager: William Russell
Recorded at 24-bit / 96kHz resolution

Raffaele Pé
is quickly establishing himself as one of the finest Italian countertenor of his generation. Acclaimed for the pureness and the beauty of his voice he has already performed and recorded with many leading conductors. These include Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Christophe Coin and Claudio Cavina. He has appeared at London Spitalfields, Kings Place, Aldeburgh Festival, Bologna Festival, Amuz Antwerp, Festival van Vlaanderen, Salisbury Art, Brixen Geistliche Musik and PaviaBarocca.

Born in Italy, he started his studies in singing and organ when he was a chorister in Lodi Cathedral, from the age of six under Pietro Panzetti. Continuing his training in London with Colin Baldy and Nicholas Clapton, he was chosen by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the Monteverdi Apprentices scheme in 2009.

Recent highlights include, Isaac in Charpentier’s Sacrificium Abrahae and Pastore and Speranza in Monteverdi’s Orfeo for La Nuova Musica, Handel Duets with La Venexiana, Bach Christmas Oratorio with Christophe Coin and the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Nicholas McGegan and Cappella Savaria, and appearances at the side of Marco Beasley in Handel’s Joshua, Judas and Esther.

Increasingly in demand on European opera stages, future engagements include Scarlatti’s Venere Amore e Adone in Rome, collaborations with the renowned Milan orchestra La Verdi, Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Krakow and Bucharest and Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea as part of La Venexiana’s 2014 Japanese tour. Bella dama will be his first solo recording for Resonus Classics.

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