Paolo Montarsolo - L'osteria Portoghese / la Serva Padrona - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Antonio Vivaldi wrote often for the orphan girls of the Ospedale della Pietà. The fame of the music-making ladies in Venice once resounded far beyond the lagoon city. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer and the Grazzi brothers dedicate themselves to this very virtuoso repertoire with the Austrian Baroque Company. InchExplosive music-making, glorious recorder-playing, Baroque swingInch - this is how one could describe the basic aims and achievements of those top players from the original-instrument scene who came together to create the Austrian Baroque Company, a group which is celebrated internationally, receiving the highest praise and many awards since it's formation in 2001.

In setting La Serva padrona to his own music, Paisiello showed he knew he was a composer to be reckoned with and he made the point again when he revised Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. In Paisiello's La Serva padrona, the protagonist is given a new aria InchDonne vaghe i studi nostriInch, (taken from Goldoni's Le Virtuose ridicole 1752), and two new duets, (authors unknown), are added, bringing the intermezzo closer in concept to opera buffa. The intermezzo for two voices was a defunct genre by this time but Paisiello decided to revive it indeed, the composer was clearly adapting to the new, lachrymose style popular with middle-class audiences which had arrived with La Buona figliuola by Goldoni-Piccinni (1760). The present edition differs from other recorded versions in that it is based on an unpublished critical edition for performance with period instruments, pitch at 415 Hz and no cuts to the recitatives or pezzo chiuso numbers. Album Tracks 1. La Serva Padrona 2. Parte Prima 3. Sinfonia 4. Aria Aspettare E Non Venire 5. Recitativo Questa È Per Me Disgrazia 6. Duetto Ma Quando la Finisci 7. Recitativo Olà, Dove Si Sta? 8. Aria Sempre in Contrasti 9. Recitativo In Somma Delle Somme 10. Aria Stizzoso, Mio Stizzoso 11. Recitativo Benissimo. Hai Tu Inteso? 12. Duetto Lo Conosco a Quegli Occhietti 13. Parte Seconda 14. Aria Donne Vaghe I Studi Nostri 15. Recitativo Or Che Fatto Ti Sei Dalla Mia Parte 16. Duetto Donne Infeste All'altrui Bene 17. Recitativo Io Crederei, Che la Mia Serva Adesso 18. Aria A Serpina Penserete 19. Recitativo Ah! Quanto Mi Sa Male 20. Recitativo Ah! Poveretta Lei! 21. Aria Son Imbrogliato Io Già 22. Recitativo Favorisca Signor... Passi 23. Duetto Contento Tu Sarai

Album Tracks 1. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Uno (Toccata Di Tutti Musici) 2. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Due (Sopra Las Vegas) 3. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Tre (Passemezzo... Nei Boschi Del Re) 4. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Quattro (Anchor Che Col Partire) 5. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Cinque (... Che Col Partire) 6. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Sei (Sopra Canaryo) 7. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Sette (Toccata Del Signor Pandolpho) 8. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Otto (Sopra L'anticho Canto de la Spagna) 9. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Nove (Toccata Del Signor Gharrydo) 10. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Dieci (Sopra Passemezzo Moderno) 11. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Undici (Doulce Mémorie) 12. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Dodici (Dialogo Sopra Un Pass'emezzo) 13. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Tredici (Dolce Memoria) 14. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble Quattordici (Foliandalus) 15. Improvisando, for Viola Da Gamba & Ensemble (Quindici (Toccata Del Signor Morhiny)