Matthew White, Les Voix Baroques - Alessandro Scarlatti: Disperato Amore (2005)
Matthew White, Les Voix Baroques - Alessandro Scarlatti: Disperato Amore (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 67:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | AN 2 9904 | Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 67:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | AN 2 9904 | Recorded: 2004
The booklet for this fine disc from Montreal includes a wonderful characterization of Alessandro Scarlatti's music, especially of the cantatas recorded here. "His music's eloquence," wrote French pedagogue Ennemond Trillat, "does not implore; it stems from that spiritual intoxication which is the very essence of the Baroque. And this music sings without phraseology. It is free of all extrinsic intent, and its lyricism produces perfect forms. Its fluid grace is essentially melodic, but without a trace of exuberance." The same virtues apply to the performances here by Canadian countertenor Matthew White. In a Baroque scene filled with athletic, heart-on-sleeve countertenors, he goes in the opposite direction. Although it's not from a lack of power (little flashes of full voice bubble up in his interpretations like intimations of a feeling's depths), he has specialized in music of smaller dimensions: Bach cantatas, Buxtehude, Purcell, and the highly romantic cantatas for voice and ensemble heard here, which are the very essence of sophisticated chamber music. The countertenor is a creature of vocal display, and with a singer who has a really unusual voice, as White does, you pay your money and you take your choice. It's safe to say, though, that everyone with an interest in Baroque vocal style ought to hear him once. His voice has a somewhat woodwind-y quality, highly expressive without being loud, and the recorder chamber music he uses to break up the program here is nicely suited as a foil to his singing. Devoting a disc to Scarlatti cantatas, a body of work containing hundreds of neglected items, was also a good idea. Each cantata has a pair of recitatives and arias that have the flavor of a single utterance. The unusual motetto Infirmata, vulnerata is not a sacred work, but a philosophical meditation on love, apparently distinguished conceptually from the cantatas by its reflective (rather than dramatic) text. This disc may well be strong enough to generate responses from other top countertenors (Andreas Scholl comes to mind) and (hopefully) further work in the same vein from White himself. A strong release, unfussily recorded, that shows continuing development in Montreal's vibrant early music scene.–James Manheim
Performer:
Matthew White, countertenor
Les Voix Baroques
Tracklist:
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Ombre tacite e sole, chamber cantata for soprano, 2 violins, viola & continuo
01. Recitativo: Ombre tacite
02. Aria: Con piede errante
03. Recitativo: Qui, tra tenebre oscure
04. Aria: Allor d'intorno a te
Bella quanto crudel spietata Irene, chamber cantata for soprano & continuo
05. Recitativo: Bella, Bella quanto crudel spietata Irene
06. Aria: Se delitto è l'amarti cos tante
07. Recitativo: Scocca da le pupille fulminanti saette
08. Aria: Mia bella se brami
Sonata for flute, 2 violins, cello & continuo No. 2 in A minor
09. Allegro
10. Largo
11. Fuga
12. Piano
13. Allegro
Non sò qual più m'ingombra, chamber cantata for soprano, 2 violins & continuo ("Cantata Pastorale")
14. Recitativo: Non so qual piu m'ingombra
15. Aria: Che sarà?
16. Recitativo: É nato, alfin mi dice
17. Aria pastorale: Nacque, e il Gran Messia
Infirmata, vulnerata, motet for alto, 2 violins & continuo
18. Aria: Infirmata, vulnerata
19. Recitativo: O care, o dulcis amor
20. Aria: Vulnera, percute
21. Aria: Cur, quaeso
22. Recitativo: Vicisti, amor
23. Aria: Semper gratus
Sonata for flute, 2 violins, cello & continuo No. 7 in G minor
24. Allegro
25. Fuga
26. Largo
27. Allegro
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Matthew White, Les Voix Baroques - Alessandro Scarlatti: Disperato Amore (2005)
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