STUTZMANN, NATHALIE

Met parallelle carrières als mezzosopraan en dirigent waarin zij op hoog niveau presteert reist Nathalie Stutzmann over de wereld. Binnenkort gaat zij ook op tournee met het door haar in 2009 opgerichte Orfeo55 waarbij zij dirigeert en het ensemble haar begeleidt. Het programma is gebaseerd op Arie Antique, een verzameling liederen eind 19e eeuw vakkundig bijeengebracht door Alessandro Parisotti met werken van onder ander Scarlatti, Conti en Cavalli. Deze bundel wordt nog steeds door veel zangstudenten gebruikt om de klassieke zangtechniek onder de knie te krijgen. Stutzmann heeft naspeuringen gedaan en brengt de werken in de originele orkestraties. Met Quella fiamma steekt ze een vuur aan dat je verwarmt.

Quella Fiamma - Arie Antiche

Bononcini, G B: Per la gloria d'adorarvi (from Griselda)
Caccini, G: Amarilli mia bella
Caldara: Sebben crudele me fai languir
Capricornus: Sonata a 3 - Prothimia suavissima II
Carissimi: Vittoria, mio core!
Cavalli: Delizie contente
Cesti: Intorno all'idol mio
Conti, F: Quella fiamma
Durante, F: Danza fanciulla gentile
Vergin, tutto amor preghiera
Concerto No. 1 in F minor: Introduction
Falconieri: Passacalle
Handel: Ah! mio cor! (from Alcina)
Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare)
Legrenzi: Che fiero costume
Marcello, A: Oboe Concerto in D Minor: Adagio
Martini, G B: Plaisir d'amour
Paisiello: Nel cor più non mi sento
Parisotti: Se tu m'ami
Porpora: Sonata Op. 2, No. 3: Adagio - Allegro
Cello Concerto in G major: Largo
Scarlatti, A: Gia il sole al Gange
O cessate di piagarmi (from Il Pompeo)

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto/musical direction), Shai Kribus (oboe), Patrick Langot (cello), Marie-Domitille Murez (harp) & Miguel Rincòn (theorbo)

The Arie Antiche compiled by Alessandro Parisotti are known to each and every student of classical singing.

But with Quella fiamma, Nathalie Stutzmann and Orfeo 55 breathe new fire into this primer for the voice, performing these songs and arias with original orchestrations, as they would have been heard in their day. Before they were lessons, they were high art.

This album is a selection of pieces from Arie antiche, a 19th Century collection of songs edited by Alessandro Parisotti to be a vocal primer. Though now more famous as the editor of Arie antiche, Parisotti was also a composer, and he managed to slip one of his own works into the book by attributing to Giovanni Pergolesi his song "Se tu m'ami". The collection was very much a part of the trend to rediscover old and forgotten works, and the popularity of the three-volume set has endured to this day.

For this album the musicians of Orfeo 55 have worked painstakingly to source original scores and to edit the parts as necessary. While the instrumental works are not part of Parisotti’s primer, they provide brief musical interludes between the songs to enhance the overall listening experience and bring these works together into a coherent programme.