Un'alma innamorata
Un'alma innamorata (2023)
Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
I Porporini,
Gerd Amelung, harpsichord and music director
PROGRAM NOTE
Un’alma innamorata (“A soul in love”) is a cantata for countertenor, strings, and basso continuo on an 18th- century text attributed to Abbé Francesco Mazziotti originally set by G. F. Handel in a secular cantata of the same name. It was commissioned by Nicholas Tamagna and premiered by I Porporini led by Gerd Amelung in the Schlosstheater Celle, Germany.The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
Un'alma innamorata
The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
Un'alma innamorata (2023)
Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
I Porporini,
Gerd Amelung, harpsichord and music director
PROGRAM NOTE
Un’alma innamorata (“A soul in love”) is a cantata for countertenor, strings, and basso continuo on an 18th- century text attributed to Abbé Francesco Mazziotti originally set by G. F. Handel in a secular cantata of the same name. It was commissioned by Nicholas Tamagna and premiered by I Porporini led by Gerd Amelung in the Schlosstheater Celle, Germany.The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
Un'alma innamorata
The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
Un'alma innamorata (2023)
Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
I Porporini,
Gerd Amelung, harpsichord and music director
PROGRAM NOTE
Un’alma innamorata (“A soul in love”) is a cantata for countertenor, strings, and basso continuo on an 18th- century text attributed to Abbé Francesco Mazziotti originally set by G. F. Handel in a secular cantata of the same name. It was commissioned by Nicholas Tamagna and premiered by I Porporini led by Gerd Amelung in the Schlosstheater Celle, Germany.The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
Un'alma innamorata
The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
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Un'alma innamorata (2023)
Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
I Porporini,
Gerd Amelung, harpsichord and music director
PROGRAM NOTE
Un’alma innamorata (“A soul in love”) is a cantata for countertenor, strings, and basso continuo on an 18th- century text attributed to Abbé Francesco Mazziotti originally set by G. F. Handel in a secular cantata of the same name. It was commissioned by Nicholas Tamagna and premiered by I Porporini led by Gerd Amelung in the Schlosstheater Celle, Germany.The cantata fuses Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Neapolitan Song with Baroque textures and structures to relate the timeless message of an anonymous lover who comes to terms with the pains of their fidelity. In the end the moral of the story: “He who wishes to enjoy life must first learn how to love.”
