Ton Koopman
‘Tu fedel? Tu costante?’ HWV 171a and other Italian cantatas
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917226522
- Catalog number CC 72265
- Release date 09 September 2016
About the album
Sometime in late 1705 or 1706 Georg Friedrich Händel, like many German composers before him, travelled to Italy, then the fountainhead of European music. During the next three years he paid extended visits to Rome and also spent time in Florence, Venice and Naples. In 1709-10, perhaps after a year back in Hamburg, he returned once again to Florence and Venice. Rather than studying with some Italian master, as others had done, he quickly established himself as a virtuoso performer and composer, enjoying the support of leading patrons and composing numerous cantatas.
Lost music from Handel’s years in Italy rarely comes to light. So it was with considerable excitement that in 2015 I found myself looking at a previously unknown and largely different version of the cantata “Tu fedel? tu costante?”, HWV 171 uniquely preserved in a manuscript belonging to Ton Koopman. As so often it was a chance discovery.
“Tu fedel? tu costante?” is the complaint of an injured love. Both Handel settings of this text are for soprano, but in HWV 171a, as presented in the Koopman manuscript, the accompanying ensemble includes an oboe in addition to the two violins and continuo found in HWV 171. Otherwise, except for the absence of the introductory sonata in HWV 171, the new cantata is practically identical with the familiar version up to the end of the first aria. Thereafter it sharply diverges. HWV 171a was probably composed in Venice or Florence sometime prior to Handel’s first
arrival in Rome in late 1706. HWV 171 was completed by May 1707.
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11Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Recitativo Tu fedel? tu costante?
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12Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Aria Cento belle ami, Fileno
04:53 -
13Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Recitativo L’occhio nero vivace
01:00 -
14Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Aria Se Licori, Filli ed io
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15Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Recitativo Ma se non hai più d’un sol core
00:37 -
16Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Aria Se non ti piace amarmi
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17Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Recitativo Ma il tuo genio incostante
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18Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV 171a Aria Sì, crudel, ti lascerò
01:32 -
19Tacete, ohimè, tacete HWV 196 Tacete, ohimè, tacete!
04:16 -
110Tacete, ohimè, tacete HWV 196 Non sia voce importuna
01:33 -
111Tacete, ohimè, tacete HWV 196 Sol quando dorme Amore
02:23 -
112Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102a Recitativo Dalla guerra amorosa
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113Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102a Aria Non v’alletti un’occhio nero
03:17 -
114Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102a Recitativo Fuggite, sí fuggite
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115Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102a Aria La bellezza è come un Fiore
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116Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102a Recitativo Fuggite, sì fuggite
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117Pensieri notturni di Filli: Nel dolce dell’oblio HWV 134 Recitativo Nel dolce dell’oblio
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118Pensieri notturni di Filli: Nel dolce dell’oblio HWV 134 Aria Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge
03:09 -
119Pensieri notturni di Filli: Nel dolce dell’oblio HWV 134 Recitativo Così fida ella vive al cuor
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120Pensieri notturni di Filli: Nel dolce dell’oblio HWV 134 Aria Ha l’inganno il suo diletto
02:46 -
121Giù nei Tartarei regni HWV 187 Giù nei Tartarei regni
01:57 -
122Giù nei Tartarei regni HWV 187 Io ch’ardendo mi sfaccio
04:02 -
123Aure soavi, e liete HWV 84 Recitativo Aure soavi e liete
01:10 -
124Aure soavi, e liete HWV 84 Aria Care luci, che l’alba rendete
02:04 -
125Aure soavi, e liete HWV 84 Recitativo Pietà, Clori, pietà!
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126Aure soavi, e liete HWV 84 Arietta Un aura flebile
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127Cuopre tal volta il cielo HWV 98 Accompagnato Cuopre tal volta il cielo
01:26 -
128Cuopre tal volta il cielo HWV 98 Aria Tuona, ballena, sibila il vento
03:28 -
129Cuopre tal volta il cielo HWV 98 Recitativo Così fiera procella dà rio tormento
01:17 -
130Cuopre tal volta il cielo HWV 98 Aria Per pietà di miei martiri
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