Kate Lindsey: Arianna

Kate Lindsey explores the music of the eighteenth century. In partnership with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, she has recorded three cantatas focusing on the myth of Ariadne, abandoned on the island of Naxos after helping Theseus kill the Cretan Minotaur by giving him a ball of thread so that he could find his way back through the labyrinth. Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Ebra d'amor fuggia' (1707) relates Ariadne's flight, 'drunk with love', alongside Theseus, for whom she expresses her tenderness in the magnificent aria 'Pur ti stringo'. The same year, the young Handel composed his cantata 'Ah crudel, nel pianto mio', this time with an anonymous abandoned lover as the subject. In 1789, Joseph Haydn also turned to Ariadne, in a cantata for which several orchestrations exist. The one recorded here is by Sigismund Neukomm, Haydn's pupil between 1797 and 1804. Three faces of disappointed love, brought to passionate life by the mezzo-soprano.

1: Introduzione (Allegrissimo - Allegro) - Ebra D'amor Fuggia
2: Pur Ti Stringo O Mio Diletto
3: Ribaciolla Teseo
4: Stringa Si Dolce Il Nodo Ardente Amore
5: Ma Poi Che Desta Vide
6: Ingoiatelo
7: Ah Che Son Con Teseo
8: Struggiti, O Core
9: Si Disse E Tanto Pianse
10: Sonata
11: Ah, Crudel, Nel Pianto Mio
12: Non Sdegnerai D'amar
13: Di Quel Bel Che Il Ciel Ti Diede
14: Balena Il Cielo
15: Per Trofei Di Mia Costanza
16: Teseo Moi Ben, Ove Sei?
17: Dove Sei, Mio Bel Tesoro
18: Ma, a Chi Parlo?
19: Ah! Che Morir Vorrei

Composer: Joseph Haydn, Alessandro Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel

Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

Number of Discs: 1

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