Bernhard Forck & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Haydn: L'isola disabitata, Hob. XXVIII: 9 (2021) [Digital Download 24/48]

After their acclaimed recording of Telemann’s Miriways, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to PENTATONE with Joseph Haydn’s opera L’isola disabitata, together with an excellent quartet of vocalists. Officially called an azione teatrale, L’isola is a serious opera about love, loss and misunderstanding with a happy ending, set on an exotic deserted island. Special about this opera is that Haydn chose orchestral accompaniment for the entire work, with colourful and dramatic accompagnato recitatives. In Haydn’s printed score, many of the elaborate instrumental sections were deliberately cut, because he feared that they demanded too much from the players, and that some audiences may not have been cultured enough to fully appreciate them. Special about this recording is that these parts have all been reinstated, using a recent edition by Thomas Busse. The seasoned players of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, led by Bernhard Forck, play this lavish score with fervour and swing, while Anett Fritsch (Costanza), Sunhae Im (Silvia), Krystian Adam (Gernando) and André Morsch (Enrico) offer an equally virtuosic vocal delivery.

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including Telemann’s Miriways (2020), CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), as well as Handel’s Messiah (2020) and Concerti grossi Op. 6 (released in 2019 and 2020) and Op. 3 (2020). Annet Fritsch and André Morsch featured on Telemann’s Miriways, while Sunhae Im and Krystian Adam make their PENTATONE debut.

Tracklist:
01. Overture
02. Recitative : Qual contrasto non vince
03. Recitative : Ah germana! Ah Costanza!
04. Aria : Se non piange un'infelice
05. Recitative : Che ostinato dolor!
06. Recitative : Ma sarà poi, Gernando
07. Aria : Chi nel cammin d'onoro
08. Recitative : Che fu mai quel ch'io vidi!
09. Aria : Fra un dolce deliro
10. Recitative : Ah presaga fu l'alma
11. Aria : Non turbar quand'io mi lagno
12. Recitative : Non s'irriti fra' primi
13. Aria : Come il vapor s'ascende
14. Aria : Ah, che invan per me pietoso
15. Recitative : Giacché da me lontana
16. Arietta & Recitative : Giacché il pietoso amico
17. Recitative : Ignora il caro amico le sue felicità
18. Recitative : Costanza, Costanza?
19. Quartet : Sono contenta appieno


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