ARIETTE - FRATTA, SCHIRINZI, SCANO

ARIETTE (CVLD234)

Author: GIUSEPPE NICOLINI
Performers: IDA FRATTA, FRANCESCA SCHIRINZI, GUIDO SCANO

Available in: HD File, CD

Production: Velut Luna
Recording, Mix & Mastering Engineer: Marco Lincetto
Musical Producer & Editing Engineer: Michele Sartor
Photos: Marco Lincetto
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Tracks

01 - Nice mia
02 - Or che la Luna splende
03 - Dite al mio bene
04 - Coperta è la campagna
05 - Sull'ale alfin dei zefiri
06 - Or che l'indissolubile
07 - Bei labbri che amore
08 - Hai negl'occhi un certo incanto
09 - Mio ben sovvengati
10 - Io fra remote sponde
11 - Confuso, smarrito
12 - So che un sogno è la speranza
13 - Se d'amor, se di contento
14 - Ma tu tremi
15 - Di questa cetra in seno
16 - Che chiedi? Che brami?
17 - Sacre piante amico mio
18 - Da voi cari lumi
19 - Chi mai provò tormento
20 - Disser che amabili sei
21 - L'erte balze dell'orride rupi
22 - Come al canto i labbri miei
23 - Fra l'ombre incerte e pallide
24 - Quell'innocente, quel solo affetto

Notes

Classical. Original compositions by Giuseppe Nicolini.
Ida Fratta soprano, Francesca Schirinzi soprano, Guido Scano piano.
24bit/88.2 kHz original live-in-studio recorded, in Velut Luna Studio, Preganziol, Italy, on September 22, 23, 24 – 2012.

Giuseppe Nicolini (1762-1842), a musician from Piacenza, carried out his musical activity over almost fifty years between the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
His artistic production encompassed all musical genres, and alongside his melodramatic repertoire, by far the most important, there are compositions for orchestra, sacred music, and a significant production of instrumental and vocal chamber music.
Nicolini enjoyed great popularity during his lifetime, primarily thanks to his theatrical career which saw him triumph in major European theaters.
Nicolini's "ariette" number around thirty, handed down in manuscript and printed sources, largely preserved in the Archive of the Dukes of Bourbon at the Palatine Library in Parma, confirming that these pieces were performed in the musical academies organized at the court of Parma and Piacenza.
The "ariette" are generally grouped into homogeneous cycles, but also circulated individually with piano or guitar accompaniment.
Love in all its nuances is the central theme of Nicolini's "ariette". All the strings are touched: from the sweet and slow serenade, to the lament for the sufferings of love, to the brilliant aria. Each composition is a small self-contained picture with its particular character.
From a musical point of view, they are all compositions in the traditional da capo aria form, with a contrasting central section, both in character and tonal structure.
The vocal part is fluid and refined; it employs simple phrasing that emerges over an accompaniment generally created with repeated or arpeggiated chords. Sometimes vocal inflections tend to emphasize poetic images expressed in the text.
These ariette are placed in that panorama of chamber lyrical music that increasingly tends to acquire autonomy, separating itself from the opera aria and creating that vein of salon romance that would culminate in the lyrics of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Tosti.