Cecilia Bartoli - Viva Vivaldi!

Cecilia Bartoli - Viva Vivaldi! - aries and concertos

DVD9 - NTSC - 16:9 - All Regions - Italian - LPCM, DTS - 106min.

Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian


Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the 20 surviving operas of Vivaldi with two concertos. It is given with the early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico before a very appreciative audience in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. (There is very little overlap between her studio-recorded Vivaldi Album and this 105-minute concert.) Anyone thinking of Vivaldi's vocal music in the context of his uplifting scared works may get a shock, for Bartoli performs as if her life depended upon it, attacking pieces such as "Armatae Face et Anguibus" from Juditha Triumphans with vengeful gusto. Bartoli's natural Italian and the live atmosphere of Maria Grazia d'Alessio's oboe gives her interpretation of the quietly haunting and melodically rich "Non ti Lusinghi la Crudeltade" from Tito Manlio a particular piquancy. The Flautino Concerto is a most attractive interlude, while the more famous Lute/Violin Concerto beguiles with its exquisite lyricism. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk

Tracks:
1. "Di due rai languir costante" [7:45]
2. "Tra le follie diverse...Siam navi all'onde algenti" [7:57]
3. "Non ti lusinghi la crudeltade" [8:35]
4. "Gelosia, tu già rendi l'alma mia" [4:16]
5. Concerto in C major for Flautino [3:51]
6. Concerto in C major for Flautino [2:31]
7. Concerto in C major for Flautino [3:18]
8. "Domine Deus" [5:49]
9. "Armatae face et anguibus" [4:23]
10. "Zeffiretti che sussurrate" [9:39]
11. Concerto in D major for Lute [3:27]
12. Concerto in D major for Lute [3:24]
13. Concerto in D major for Lute [2:45]
14. "Gelido in ogni vena" [14:43]
15. "Anch'il mar par che sommerga" [6:01]
16. "Dite, oimê" [5:22]
17. "Agitata da due venti" [7:13]
18. "Sventurata navicella" [5:16]