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Special offer. Tiranno

Kate Lindsey (mezzo), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Tiranno

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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Special offer. Tiranno

Kate Lindsey (mezzo), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen (following Arianna in 2020, ALPHA576) to the figure of Nero. Scarlatti, Handel and Monteverdi wrote works focusing on this tragic protagonist and his entourage, including his mother Agrippina and his wives (Poppaea and Octavia). Interpreted with incredible intensity by the American mezzo-soprano, the programme features world premiere recordings of two cantatas: Alessandro Scarlatti’s La morte di Nerone (c.1690) and Bartolomeo Monari’s La Poppea (1685). Tenor Andrew Staples and soprano Nardus Williams join Kate Lindsey for duets from L’incoronazione di Poppea, including the sensual ‘Pur ti miro’

Contents and tracklist

Scarlatti, A: Il Nerone "Io son Neron" for Soprano & B.c
Work length12:38
I. Recitativo. "Io son Neron"
Track length1:16
II. Aria. "Vuò che tremi Giove ancora"
Track length2:17
III. Recitativo. "Il tirannico cor io non ascondo"
Track length0:46
IV. Aria. "Non stabilisce, no"
Track length1:36
V. Recitativo. "Or coll’abisso istesso"
Track length1:10
VI. Aria. "Veder chi pena"
Track length4:55
VII. Recitativo. "Coi furibondi sguardi"
Track length0:38
Handel: Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110
Work length24:36
I. Recitativo. "Dunque sarà pur vero"
Track length1:05
II. Aria. "Orrida, oscura"
Track length3:22
III. Recitativo. "Ma pria che d’empia morte"
Track length1:00
IV. Aria. "Renda cenere il tiranno"
Track length2:55
V. Recitativo. "Sì, sì, del gran tiranno"
Track length1:43
VI. Cavatina. "Come, o Dio!"
Track length2:12
VII. Cavatina. "Sì, sì, s’uccida"
Track length1:48
VIII. Cavatina. "Cada lacero e svenato"
Track length1:01
IX. Cavatina. "Come, o Dio!"
Track length2:16
X. Aria. "Se infelice al mondo vissi"
Track length3:48
XI. Recitativo. "Prema l’ingrato figlio"
Track length1:12
XII. Aria. "Su lacerate il seno"
Track length1:51
XIII. Recitativo. "Ecco a morte già corro"
Track length0:23
Monteverdi: Hor che Seneca e morto (Drinking Song) from L'Incoronatione di Poppea
Work length6:08
Monteverdi: Son rubin preziosi (from L'incoronazione di Poppea)
Work length2:13
Monteverdi: Addio Roma! (from L'incoronazione di Poppea)
Work length4:02
Monteverdi: Pur ti miro (I gaze upon you) from L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Work length4:25
Monari: La Poppea
Work length9:18
I. Recitativo. "Scorrea con piè superbo"
Track length0:56
II. Aria. "Dove mai stelle spietate"
Track length2:13
III. Recitativo. "Odi Neron questi sospiri estremi"
Track length1:11
IV. Aria. "Pria di nascere oh dolce prole"
Track length1:54
V. Recitativo. "Ma se tante querele"
Track length1:09
VI. Aria. "Bellezza mortale"
Track length1:55
Scarlatti, A: La Morte Di Nerone
Work length11:59
I. Recitativo. "Abbandonato e solo"
Track length1:06
II. Aria. "Quella morte, che per gioco"
Track length2:33
III. Recitativo. "Ma che miro ?"
Track length1:28
IV. Aria. "Vieni pur, vieni sì, sì"
Track length1:40
V. Recitativo. "Ma no! merta Nerone"
Track length0:40
VI. Cavatina. "Il suo pensier l’uccida"
Track length2:07
VII. Aria. "Contro l’armi dell’inganno"
Track length2:03
VIII. Recitativo. "Così fremea Nerone e fu trafitto"
Track length0:22

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Awards and reviews

September 2021

This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the subtle and inflected playing of the Arcangelo group. Handel’s study of Nero’s mother, Agrippina condotta a morire, offers opportunities for Lindsey’s impressive technical control.
5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

Jan/Feb 2022

The focal point is the flexible and highly charged voice of Kate Lindsey. What is appealing is that she captures every nuance of the thoughts of murder, revenge, and sorrow with fine emotion. One can feel the action in her voice, which from a technical standpoint handles the sometimes gnarly coloratura with ease.

July 2021

All this compelling music, so vitally performed by Lindsey...and all so perfectly accompanied by Arcangelo, is a model of what a recital album can be.

May 2021

The American mezzo captures every facet of the emperor’s frighteningly mercurial personality, particularly in the world premiere recording of Scarlatti’s astonishing La Morte di Nerone in which the ghosts of his victims materialise before him. She’s scarcely less compelling as the ill-fated women in his life - but the stand-out is the flagrantly erotic duet with Lucano from Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, her breathless exchanges with Andrew Staples barely Safe For Work.
Katherine Cooper

29th May 2021

The exchange between Nero and Lucan (tenor Andrew Staples) from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea is a particular highlight. Emperor and poet spin whispered, ever more erotic lines in drooling celebration of love. The players of Arcangelo deftly match their subtle colours.
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