Bellezza Crudel - Vivaldi Tone Wik & Barokkanerne

• 1 Cantata Rv 679: Che Giova Il Sospirar, Povero Core - Recitativo I 00:57
• 2 Cantata Rv 679: Che Giova Il Sospirar, Povero Core - Aria: Nell'aspro Tuo Periglio 05:46
• 3 Cantata Rv 679: Che Giova Il Sospirar, Povero Core - Recitativo II 00:43
• 4 Cantata Rv 679: Che Giova Il Sospirar, Povero Core - Aria: Cupido, Tu Vedi 03:24
• 5 Cantata Rv 660: La Farfalletta S'aggira Al Lume - Aria: La Farfalletta S'aggira Al Lume 05:01
• 6 Cantata Rv 660: La Farfalletta S'aggira Al Lume - Recitativo 01:04
• 7 Cantata Rv 660: La Farfalletta S'aggira Al Lume - Aria: Vedro Con Nero Velo 06:06
• 8 Concerto Rv 484: in Mi Minore, Per Fagotto, Archi E Basso Continuo - Allegro Poco 04:12
• 9 Concerto Rv 484: in Mi Minore, Per Fagotto, Archi E Basso Continuo - Andante 03:09
• 10 Concerto Rv 484: in Mi Minore, Per Fagotto, Archi E Basso Continuo - Allegro 02:58
• 11 Cantata Rv 664: Se Ben Vivono Senz'alma - Aria: Se Ben Vivono Senz' Alma 05:54
• 12 Cantata Rv 664: Se Ben Vivono Senz'alma - Recitativo 00:56
• 13 Cantata Rv 664: Se Ben Vivono Senz'alma - Aria: Nella Tua Guancia Amorosa 03:52
• 14 Concerto Rv 441: in Do Minore, Per Flauto, Archi E Basso Continuo - Allegro Non Molto 04:33
• 15 Concerto Rv 441: in Do Minore, Per Flauto, Archi E Basso Continuo - Largo 02:20
• 16 Concerto Rv 441: in Do Minore, Per Flauto, Archi E Basso Continuo - Untitled 03:20
• 17 Cantata Rv 678: All'ombra Di Sospetto - Recitativo I 00:26
• 18 Cantata Rv 678: All'ombra Di Sospetto - Aria: Avezzo Non E Il Core 04:41
• 19 Cantata Rv 678 All'ombra Di Sospetto - Recitativo II 00:52
• 20 Cantata Rv 678: All'ombra Di Sospetto - Aria: Mentiti Contenti 03:50
• Total Runtime 01:04:04

Info for Bellezza Crudel - Vivaldi

Kantaten und Concerti von Antonio Vivaldi, eingespielt von dem norwegischen Ensemble Barokkanerne, einem professio-nellen Orchester, das sich auf Barockmusik spezialisiert hat und auf historischen Instrumenten musiziert. Für dieses Album haben die Musiker einige wenig bekannte Stücke herausgesucht. So ist nur Experten bekannt, dass unter den 324 Solo- konzerten, die Vivaldi geschrieben hat, lediglich zwei für Altblockflöte sind - ein Instrument, das damals häufig und ausgesprochen virtuos eingesetzt wurde - aber dafür 39 Konzerte für Fagott. Ein Kuriosum; denn von keinem anderen Komponisten dieser Zeit ist ein Fagott-Konzert überliefert. Das Album enthält sowohl ein Konzert für die Altblockflöte (RV 441) als auch eines für Fagott (RV 484), Streicher und Continuo - und somit zwei absolute Raritäten. Alexandra Opsahl und Per Hannis- dal spielen die Solopartien souverän. Tone Wik singt zudem vier Vivaldi-Kantaten. Die norwegische Sopranistin setzt ihre nicht übermäßig voluminöse, aber dafür sehr bewegliche Stimme beinahe instrumental ein. So liefert sie sich in der Kantate RV 678 All'ombra di sospetto ein faszinierendes Duett mit der Traversflöte von Torun Kirby Torbo. Es wird generell nicht spektakulär musiziert, aber fundiert und solide. Die Aufnahmen sind durchweg hörenswert. (Quelle: Das Klassik-Blog)

Tone Wik (soprano)
Barokkanerne (period instruments orchestra)
Per Hannisdal (bassoon)
Alexandra Opsahl (recorder)

Tone Wik (Soprano), Born: Oslo, Norway

The Norwegian soprano, Tone (Margaret) Wik, started singing at the age of 7 in the Norwegian Broadcasting Girls Choir under the conductor Marie Foss. There, particular attention was given to intonation and quality of sound, and years of rehearsals and concerts laid the foundation of her musical education. Having finished her studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Oslo Conservatory of Music, she developed an interest in early music. This repertoire, with its demands for technical virtuosity and almost instrumental clarity of sound, suited her perfectly. She then went on to complete graduate studies in baroque singing at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, Netherlands.
Since then, Tone Wik has performed both chamber and church repertoire. She has appeared as a soloist with many distinguished early music conductors and muscians such as Andrew Manze, Joshua Rifkin, Andrew Parrott, Harry Christophers, Edward Higginbottom, Ketil Haugsand, Shalev Ad-El, Ronald Brautigam and Ryo Terakado and has performed with internationally acclaimed early music ensembles such as Concerto Copenhagen, The Bach Ensemble New York, Il Gardellino, Barokkanerne, Norsk Barokkorkester (the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra) and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in many recordings and has performed on radio and television in many European countries. She has sung in many Bach concerts, including several cantatas, oratorios, etc., like the B-minor Mass (BWV 232) on a tour with Joshua Rifkin some years ago.
Tone Wik has also participated in many international festivals including Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, Festival Musica Antica, Händelfestspiele in Halle, Barockfest Münster, Israel Festival, Brezice Festival, Musicantica Trento, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Northlands Festival, Bergen International Festival and Ultima Festival. In 2002 and 2003, she performed the role of the Israeli Woman in Georg Frideric Handel’s oratorio Esther in New York, and received critical acclaim in The New York Times.
In 2003, her first solo CD, “Dolcissimo Sospiro”* of Italian music from the early 17th century and the contemporary piece “Rinuccini” by Ron Ford was critically acclaimed in both the Norwegian and the international press. 'Her clean pitch allows for delightful wonderfully agile and accurate runs' (Metropolitan Opera News, USA, August 2004); 'She is really terrific in the light, fast lilting numbers' (BBC Music Magazine, England, May 2004); “…the CD is from its beginning to its end a feast for the ears, thanks to Tone Wik, with a voice that makes you melt away. (de Volkskrant, Netherlands, September 2004)
Tone Wik is also an active teacher and choir conductor, and is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Oslo Baroque Soloists, which consists of well-established singers from both Norway and Scandinavia. She has also given regular master-classes and has taught baroque singing at both the Norwegian Academy of Music and ensemble didactics at the Barratt Due Institute of Music and has given master-classes abroad such as at the Scandinavian Bach Academy in Örebro, Sweden. In 2008 her new CD 'Bellezza Crudel' with the orchestra 'Barokkanerne' was released.

Alexandra Opsahl(cornetto and recorder)
studied recorder with Svein Egil Skotte at the Barratt Due Institute, Oslo, before coming to London in 2000 to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen. While at the Academy, she won a number of competitions, most notably the Moeck/SRP Solo Recorder Competition in 2003, as well as the Friends of the RAM Early Music Prize in 2001 and 2003. She was also a semi-finalist and received Honourable Mention at the 2005 Brugge Early Music Soloists Competition.

At the Academy she co-founded the ensemble Lupo with Ian Pritchard, which specializes in 17th-century Italian instrumental music. Graduating with first class honours, she went on to receive a Norwegian Performing Arts Scholarship to study 17th-century repertoire in Bologna, also taking private cornetto lessons with Bruce Dickey. She performs frequently across Europe and the U.S., and has, within in the UK, appeared in the Globe, and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Glyndebourne, the Spitalfields Festival, the Chester Festival, and the Tilford Bach Festival. She has also performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of Ton Koopman. She has recently recorded with the Italian early music ensemble Cappella Artemisia (Tactus), and the Vivaldi C-Minor recorder concerto with the Norwegian ensemble the Barokkanerne.

From 2006 - 2008 she was a student at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she pursued historical brass studies with Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet. She is currently pursuing her Master's in Early Music at USC.

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