Patricia Petibon: Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias

Patricia Petibon (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon

Handel: Tornami a vagheggiar (from Alcina) / Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo) / Volate, amori (from Ariodante) / Ah! mio cor! (from Alcina) / Neghittosi, or voi che fate? (from Ariodante)
B. Marcello: Come mai puoi vedermi piangere (from Arianna)
Porpora: Morte amara (from Lucio Papirio)
Sartorio: Quando voglio (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto) / Orfeo, tu dormi (from Orfeo)
A. Scarlatti: Se il mio dolor t'offende (from La Griselda) / Caldo Sangue (from Sedecia Re di Gerusalemme)
Stradella: Queste lagrime e sospiri (from San Giovanni Battista)
Vivaldi: Tra le follie...Siam navi all'onde algenti (from L'Olimpiade)

Gramophone Editor's Choice - June 2010
Patricia Petibon, admired for her command of Baroque style, records her first album of Italian Baroque arias partnered by Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra Saluted by the International Record Review for her “rare ability to inject into her performance vocal characterizations which . . . nullify the need to see these operatic characters in the flesh,” Rosso frames Petibon’s gift of transformation by purely vocal means Petibon’s keen interpretive intelligence and gleaming tone summon into vivid life a wealth of characters tangled up in the power plays of gods, kings, witches, and devils Rosso mixes beloved Handel airs like “Lascia ch’io pianga” with newly discovered arias by his contemporaries and predecessors. Sartorio’s “Quando voglio” and Porpora’s floating “Morte amara” are potential hits Her Deutsche Grammophon debut, Amoureuses, won 2009’s BBC Music Magazine Award for “Best Opera Album”
“This enterprisingly planned recital confirms Patricia Petibon as a singing actress with few peers in Baroque opera...it is hard to resist the mesmeric intensity of Petibon's singing...[Marcon's] expert period band matches Petibon all the way in acuity and dramatic flair.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010

Price: $15.98