Arias for Anna Renzi: The First Opera Diva - Monteverdi, Cesti, Laurenzi (CD)

Arias for Anna Renzi

the first Opera Diva

Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643

1 Disprezzata regina (from "L'incoronazione di Poppea", 1643)                                                                                 4’47

(soprano, theorbo, harpsichord, viola da gamba, violone)

Antonio Cesti 1623-1669

2 Sinfonia avanti al prologo (from “Argia”, 1655)                                                                                                         2’11

(violins, contralto viola, viola da gamba, cello, violone, theorbo, harpsichord)

Antonio Cesti

3 S’un guardo mi vinse (from “Argia”, 1655)                                                                                                                3’58

(soprano, violins, contralto viola, viola da gamba, cello, violone, theorbo, harpsichord)

Luigi Rossi 1597-1653

4 Passacaglia del signor Luigi (1647)                                                                                                                             3’58

(harpsichord)

Giovanni Paolo Cima 1598-1622

5 Sonata a due, violino e violone (1610)                                                                                                                       5’08

(violin I, harpsichord, violoncino)

Filiberto Laurenzi 1618-after 1651

6 O cara libertà (from “Concerti e arie”, 1641)                                                                                                             6’04

(soprano, harpsichord, viola da gamba)

Girolamo Frescobaldi 1583-1643

7 Canzon prima a basso solo (from “Canzoni da sonare a una due tre et quattro con il Basso Continuo", Venice version, 1634)     5’35

(cello, harpsichord)

Giovanni Ceresini 1584-1659

8 Simulacro d’amor (Venezia, 1627, with diminutions by Filippo Pantieri)                                                                 3’58

(harpsichord)

Antonio Cesti

9 Ecco l’alba che ridente (from Argia, 1655)                                                                                                                 1’25

(sopranos, violins, theorbo, harpsichord, cello, violoncino, violone)

Filiberto Laurenzi

10 Spero, aspetto e non viene (from La Finta Savia, 1643)                                                                                          2’53

11 Per far nascere un Chirone (from La Finta Savia, 1643)                                                                                          3’31

12 Stolta Melanto ignuda (from La Finta Savia, 1643)                                                                                                  4’46

(soprano, violins, theorbo, harpsichord, cello, violoncino, violone)

Roberta Invernizzi soprano

Ensemble Sezione Aurea

Lucia Cortese soprano in A. Cesti’s Prologue

Luca Giardini violin I

Gabriele Raspanti violin II

Giangiacomo Pinardi theorbo

Francesca Camagni contralto viola

Rosita Ippolito viola da gamba and violoncino in G

Sebastiano Severi cello

Giovanni Valgimigli violone

Filippo Pantieri harpsichord and concertmaster

Recording: December 2017 in the Sala dell’Arengo of the Castello Malatestiano in Longiano, Forlì-Cesena, Italy