CHERUBINI Arias and Overtures

The young Cherubini with arias for England, France and Italy

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Antonio Salieri, Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Hyperion

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 58

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: CDA67893

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(Il) Giulio Sabino, Movement: Sinfonia Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
(Il) Giulio Sabino, Movement: I mesti affetti miei Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Soprano
Ifigenia in Aulide, Movement: Turbata ai dubbi accenti Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Soprano
(La) grotta di Trofonio, Movement: D'un dolce ardor la face Antonio Salieri, Composer
Antonio Salieri, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Soprano
Démophon Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Scena e rondeau Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Soprano
Armida abbandonata, Movement: Sinfonia Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Armida abbandonata, Movement: Qual da venti combattuta Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Soprano
Mesenzio, re d'Etruria Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
Auser Musici
Carlo Ipata, Conductor
Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria) Cherubini, Composer
This is not the grand, passionate Cherubini of post-Revolutionary Paris, admired by Beethoven, Weber and (more ambiguously) Berlioz, but a young composer honing his craft as a composer of Italian opera seria. Surprisingly perhaps for an Italian, memorable melodic invention was not, and never would be, Cherubini’s forte. But there is much agreeable music in this sequence of overtures and arias written for Florence, London and Paris during the 1780s. The overture to Démophon, while not quite the ‘indisputable masterpiece’ claimed by the writer of the informative if understandably partisan booklet-note, is an impressive essay in pre-Beethovenian C minor rhetoric. And if several of the arias here sound to us too cheerful for their desperate sentiments, not least the frolicking coloratura in ‘I mesti affetti miei’ from Il Giulio Sabino (a resounding flop in London), Cherubini already reveals his gift for the striking gesture and colourful, woodwind-rich orchestration.

Although her confident, laser-bright soprano can become a tad shrill in alt, Maria Grazia Schiavo displays a nimble coloratura technique, phrases elegantly and makes much of her words. She vividly catches the pathos and agitation of the scena e rondeau ‘Ti lascio adorato’, and finds a tenderly softened tone for the graceful love song ‘D’un dolce ardor’. The Tuscan period band Auser Musici are robust rather than specially subtle partners, with, as recorded, a distinctly abrasive string tone. But there is no doubting the energy and commitment of their playing, whether in the turbulent Démophon Overture or the beguiling sinfonia concertante for violin, cello, flute and oboe in the Overture to Giulio Sabino.

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