Caldara: The Cervantes Operas La Ritirata & Josetxu Obregon

• Antonio Caldara (1670-1736): Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa:
• 1Introduction03:37
• Sancio Pansa, governatore dellisola Barattaria: Act III:
• 2Aria: Per tanti obbligazioni Signor02:27
• Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa: Act I:
• 3Recitative: Da si austera virtu tuo cor01:00
• 4Aria: Quel cor, che non voglio04:00
• Nicola Matteis (1650-1714): Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa:
• 5Aria01:22
• 6Entre01:16
• 7Gigue00:55
• 8Menueto01:12
• Antonio Caldara: Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa: Act II:
• 9Aria: Si labbiamo, Ricciardetto04:24
• 10Aria: Penso di gia che appena04:36
• 11Aria: Giache debe andar cosi03:17
• Nicola Matteis: Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa:
• 12Aria per li Vilani I01:29
• 13Aria per Burlar sanco panco01:11
• 14Aria per li Vilani II01:52
• 15Aria per li Bacanti01:02
• 16Tempo di Passapie02:26
• 17Aria: Per li Satiri01:25
• 18Aria grotesca01:15
• Antonio Caldara: Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa: Act IV:
• 19Recitative: Sancio amico01:47
• 20Aria: Primieramente, Sancio, abbi timore04:45
• Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa: Act IV, Scene 8:
• 21Aria: Addio, Signor Padrone03:56
• Nicola Matteis: Sancio Pansa, governatore dellisola Barattaria:
• 22Aria00:53
• Antonio Caldara: Sancio Pansa, governatore dellisola Barattaria:
• 23Act II: Recitative: Scoperto, e in odio00:38
• 24Act II: Aria: Confida al vento la sua speranza03:02
• Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa:
• 25Act IV: Aria: Venga pure in campo armato04:09
• 26Act V: Aria: A dispetto del vento, e dellonda05:01
• Nicola Matteis: Don Chisciotte in corte della duchessa:
• 27Aria I02:12
• 28Aria II01:14
• 29Sarabanda02:07
• Sancio Pansa, governatore dellisola Barattaria:
• 30Tempo di Ciacona01:24
• Total Runtime01:09:54

Info for Caldara: The Cervantes Operas

In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, La Ritirata and Josetxu Obregón have created a programme for Glossa sallying forth on the back of music composed by Antonio Caldara and inspired by El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Antonio Caldara was neither the first nor the last composer to have his compositional ingenuity sparked off by Cervantes’ timeless masterpiece. He may well have been propelled forwards by his own experiencing the Spanish soundscape within a century of the publication of the two parts of the Don Quijote: Barcelona was a working “port of call” for Caldara after Mantua and Rome and before Vienna. For the Viennese court he wrote a pair of operas (with librettos by GC Pasquini): Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa and Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria, and from these works Obregón – like Caldara also a cellist – has put together a selection of arias.

Soloists María Espada, Emiliano González Toro and João Fernandes invest their abundant collective artistry in bringing to life a rapid series of Cervantine characters, not least the Spanish knight and his squire. Interspersed between these vocal contributions are a series of instrumental ballets composed for these operas by Nicola Matteis, who also worked at the Viennese court. In the booklet essay Begoña Lolo and Adela Presas set the scene for Caldara’s contribution to the musical legacy of Don Quixote.

María Espada, soprano
Emiliano González Toro, tenor
João Fernandes, bass
La Ritirata
Hiro Kurosaki, concertmaster
Josetxu Obregón, artistic direction

No biography found.

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