Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis - Handel: Giove in Argo, HWV A14 - Opera in 3 Acts, 1739 (2013)
Alan Curtis - Handel: Giove in Argo (Pasticcio, London, 1739), HWV A14 (2013)
亨德尔: 朱庇特在阿格号(混成歌剧, 伦敦1739年首演), 作品编号: HWV A14
Composer: George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759) 乔治·弗里德里希·亨德尔
Libretto: Antonio Maria Lucchini
Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco
Conductor: Alan Curtis
Genre: Classical, Opera
Label: Virgin Classics
Catalog: 7231162
Year: 2013
朱庇特在阿格号(又译: 阿尔戈号, 希腊神话中的一条船)
Giove:
From Latin Iove, ablative form of Iuppiter (“Jupiter”), or alternatively from the accusative form, Iovem.
1. (Roman mythology) Jupiter, Jove
2. (astronomy) Jupiter
朱庇特神庙(Tempio di Giove)
在一些拉丁语系语言中,星期四也是以朱庇特命名的,例如,西班牙语的星期四(jueves)和意大利语的星期四(giovedì)。
意大利语Giove,就是朱庇特的意思,朱庇特是罗马神话中的主神,天神或雷神,对应于希腊神话中的宙斯。
Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos, HWV A14) is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. It is one of Handel's three pasticcio works made up of music and arias from his previous operas. The libretto was written by Antonio Maria Lucchini. The opera was first performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London, on 1 May 1739.
History
The libretto by the Venetian poet Lucchini had been written for a setting by Antonio Lotti in Dresden in 1717. Handel might have heard Lotti's opera on his visit to Dresden in 1719, where the famous Senesino sang the part of Jupiter. Probably Handel took a copy of the text to England and remembered it in 1739 when he was looking for a libretto for a short pasticcio opera with three female characters in it.
Handel brought several pasticci to the London stage. In most cases he adapted successful works of Italian composers for London, but he wrote three pasticci in which he re-used music from his own earlier works. They are the well known Oreste, the little-known Alessandro Severo and the completely unknown Giove in Argo. In the last-named opera he used, apart from music from his earlier works, some original compositions as well as two arias (sung by Iside) written by the Italian composer Francesco Araja.
The opera failed in London and was abandoned after only two performances.
For many years most of Giove in Argo was thought to have been lost until some old manuscripts were discovered containing a considerable number of the missing arias. However, most of the recitatives from the original work remain missing. This discovery enabled musicologist and composer John H. Roberts to assemble a performable opera out of the material that was supplemented partly with his own music composed in the style of Handel. A published edition of this score is due soon by the Complete Works Edition,.
The first modern performance of Giove in Argo occurred on 15 September 2006 in Bayreuth in the 18th century Margravial Opera House in a complete and staged production by Concert Royal, Cologne and Collegium Cantorum Cologne (de), directed by Igor Folwill and conducted by Thomas Gebhardt. The United States premiere of the work took place on April 29, 2008, in a concert format presented at Carnegie Hall with conductor Robert Bass, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the Collegiate Chorale. Rufus Müller sang Giove and Elizabeth Futral portrayed Calisto. The first UK performance since 1739 took place at the Royal College of Music, London, as part of the Handel Festival, on 23 March, 2015. It was conducted by Laurence Cummings.[citation needed]
Handel's Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos) is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, a pastiche (or, in the parlance of the time, pasticcio) of numbers from earlier operas stitched together into a mythological-pastoral plot that is absurd even by the standards of Baroque opera. It is a notable sign of the success of the Baroque opera revival that this has appeared on a semi-major label, Virgin Classics. The pieces were all from operas that were fairly recent at the time, and it's possible that the work was intended as a kind of greatest-hits reprise, but London audiences did not bite; the opera was long thought to be lost, and it had its modern premiere only in 2006, with newly written recitatives. The curious will do well with this release by the reliable conductor Alan Curtis, the very unusual mezzo-soprano Theodora Baka, longtime Curtis soprano Karina Gauvin, and the group Il Complesso Barocco. You also get a detailed booklet essay by the work's rediscoverer, John H. Roberts. Handel seems to have put his strongest numbers up front; the first act is a good deal more exciting than the other two. There are a lot of choruses, and Oh quanto bella gloria, a celebration of hunting set in the mighty harmonic blocks that only Handel could manage, is prime mature Handel. Several of the arias are also top-notch, and everything's well performed. Probably for Handel completists, but everything is well done, including the engineering from the entirely appropriate Villa San Fermo in Italy.
Track List:
CD 1:
Ouverture
1 Largo – Allegro (3:30)
2 A tempo di Bourrée (1:29)
ATTO PRIMO
3 Coro Care selve, date al cor (2:01)
4 Recitativo: Licaone Imbelli Dei! (0:48)
5 Aria: Licaone Affanno tiranno (3:56)
6 Coro Oh quanto bella gloria (3:20)
7 Recitativo: Diana Della gran caccia, o fide (0:45)
8 Aria: Diana Non ingannarmi, cara speranza (7:18)
9 Coro Oh quanto bella gloria (1:12)
10 Aria: Iside Deh! m’aiutate, o Dei (2:34)
11 Recitativo: Iside Fra il silenzio di queste ombrose selve (1:01)
12 Arioso: Iside Vieni, vieni, o de’ viventi (1:08)
13 Recitativo: Arete Iside qui, fra dolce sonno immersa? (0:23)
14 Aria: Arete Deh! v’aprite, o luci belle (3:38)
15 Recitativo: Iside, Arete Olà? Chi mi soccorre? (1:39)
16 Aria: Iside Taci, e spera (3:39)
17 Arioso: Calisto Tutta raccolta ancor (2:03)
18 Recitativo: Calisto, Erasto Abbi, pietoso Cielo (1:52)
19 Aria: Calisto Lascia la spina (2:43)
20 Recitativo: Erasto, Arete Credo che quella bella (1:23)
21 Aria: Arete Semplicetto! a donna credi? (6:11)
22 Recitativo: Erasto Che intesi mai? (0:23)
23 Aria: Erasto Al par della mia sorte (5:16)
24 Recitativo: Iside Una cara promessa (0:57)
25 Aria: Iside Nel passar da un laccio all’altro (6:01)
26 Coro Lieto esulti il cor (1:07)
CD 2:
ATTO SECONDO
1 Coro: Pastori Corre, vola qui ’l piacere (1:28)
2 Recitativo: Diana, Calisto Dell’Arcade feroce (0:44)
3 Aria: Calisto Già sai che l’usignol (3:56)
4 Recitativo: Calisto, Diana Ma s’al fin mi piegassi (0:40)
5 Aria: Diana Io parto lieta sulla tua fede (5:46)
6 Coro: Pastori Corre, vola qui ’l piacere (1:02)
7 Recitativo: Arete, Calisto, Iside Qual mai rara beltà m’accende il core? (1:58)
8 Aria: Arete Sempre dolci ed amorose (6:45)
9 Recitativo: Erasto, Iside, Calisto Ecco l’infida (1:15)
10 Aria: Calisto Tornami a vagheggiar (4:53)
11 Recitativo: Erasto Che vuoi di più, crudele? (0:20)
12 Aria: Erasto Col tuo sangue smorzare vorrei (4:23)
13 Recitativo accompagnato: Iside, Erasto Svenato il genitor (1:16)
14 Recitativo accompagnato: Iside Iside, dove sei? (2:45) (Francesco Araja)
15 Aria: Iside Ombra che pallida (4:10) (Francesco Araja)
16 Coro Viver, e non amar (4:51)
CD 3:
ATTO TERZO
1 Coro Oggi udirannosi (2:51)
2 Recitativo: Licaone, Calisto Dovunque io volga il passo (1:17)
3 Aria: Calisto Combattuta da più venti (7:00)
4 Recitativo: Arete, Calisto, Iside Che risolvi, o Calisto (1:00)
5 Aria: Iside Questa d’un fido amore (4:58) (Francesco Araja)
6 Recitativo: Arete, Calisto Deh! vezzoso mio ben (0:29)
7 Duetto: Arete, Calisto Vado e vivo con la speranza (2:33)
8 Recitativo: Diana, Calisto Conversar co’ pastori (0:50)
9 Aria: Diana In braccio al tuo spavento (3:31)
10 Recitativo accompagnato: Calisto Priva d’ogni conforto (1:13)
11 Aria: Calisto Ah! non son io che parlo (5:45)
12 Recitativo: Erasto Agitato, confuso, io sieguo l’orme (0:52)
13 Aria: Erasto Così suole a rio vicina (4:15)
14 Recitativo accompagnato: Calisto Non è d’un’alma grande (1:12)
15 Coro S’unisce al tuo martir (1:46)
16 Recitativo: Iside, Erasto, Licaone, Calisto, Diana, Arete Ah! che mal mi difendo! (1:51)
17 Aria: Iside Al gaudio, al riso, al canto (2:09)
18 Coro D’Amor, di Giove al vanto (0:38)