Catalogue # GCD922901

A new recording from Roberta Invernizzi always gives pleasure, but on the rare occasion when the Italian soprano is placed in the spotlight, as with this new collection of opera arias, it promises something very special indeed. Invernizzi is known for her style and drama in the music of the Baroque (as on recent discs of Handel and Campra). This new journey, on Glossa, showcases Vivaldi’s own fertile dramatic capacity to capture moods and a whole range of emotional highs and lows embracing anger, despair, anxiety, amorous frustration and touching intensity. Invernizzi triumphs, crowned by her electrifying performance of ‘Dopo un’orrida procella’ from ‘Griselda’.

The programme offers a set of contrasts in known arias from Vivaldi’s operatic music and those which deserve to be better-known. Invernizzi’s interpretation is aided and abetted by La Risonanza’s fine group of instrumentalists and, of course, sympathetic direction from Fabio Bonizzoni, speaking volumes for their long musical association.

Vivaldi:
Combatta un gentil cor
Leggi almeno, tiranna infedele (from Ottone in villa)
Da due venti un mar turbato (from Ercole sul Termodonte)
Non ti lusinghi la crudeltade from Tito Manlio
Rete lacci (from Dorilla in Tempe)
Se garrisce la rondinella (from Orlando finto pazzo)
Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori from Griselda
Vanne perdida… Frà le procelle from Tito Manlio
Dite, oimè! Ditelo, al fine (from La Fida Ninfa)
Nacque al bosco e nacque al prato (from Il Giustino)
Tu dormi in tante pene (from Tito Manlio)
Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia from Ottone in villa
Se mai senti spirarti sul volto from Catone in Utica
Griselda - dramma per musica : Dopo un’ orrida procella

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni