A Royal Trio

La Nuova Musica, Lawrence Zazzo

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On 27 July 1719 the Royal Academy of Music was established as joint-stock company by a prestigious group of seventy-three British aristocrats. George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) had been living permanently in or near London for seven years, so it was logical for the Academy to appoint him as their salaried ‘Master of the Orchester’. He was issued a warrant by the Duke of Newcastle (the Lord Chamberlain and the governor of the Academy) to travel to the continent to recruit a suitable company of singers: in Dresden he hired the soprano Durastanti (who had sung for him in Rome and Venice, 1707–09) and the bass Boschi (who had also sung for Handel in Venice and in his first London opera Rinaldo in 1711); the Academy had stipulated that Handel should hire the castrato Senesino, who joined the new company a few months late because he first had to contrive craftily to have his contact with the Elector of Saxony terminated. Closer to home, Handel recruited the English singer Anastasia Robinson, who retired from the stage in June 1724 after her secret marriage to the Earl of Peterborough (an Academy director).

The new opera company eventually opened for business on 2 April 1720 with a performance of Giovanni Porta’s Numitore at the King’s Theatre on the Haymarket; the theatre had been built a decade earlier by the great architect and Royal Academy subscriber Sir John Vanbrugh. For the next few seasons the Royal Academy of Music produced a bal- anced programme of works mostly by its double-act of imported foreign composers, the Saxon harpsichordist Handel and the Modenese cellist Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747). The latter’s music was already popular in London: his Neapolitan opera Il trionfo di Camilla (1696) had been performed in London sixty-three times between 1706 and 1709, and un- successful attempts were made to bring him to London in 1707. In 1719 Lord Burlington (a Royal Academy director best known to posterity for his architectural endeavours such as his Palladian villa at Chiswick) travelled to Rome and personally hired Bononcini for the Royal Acade- my’s 1720/21 season. 

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
Overture from Vespasiano
05:11
2.
Rompo i lacci from Flavio
05:50
3.
Così stanco Pellegrino from Crispo,
05:50
4.
Sinfonia from Admeto
01:28
5.
Va tacito from Giulio Cesare
07:00
6.
Io son tradito - from Ottone
01:43
7.
Tanti affanni - from Ottone
09:37
8.
Per la gloria d?adorarvi - from Griselda
03:37
9.
Freme l?onda from Il naufragio vicino
03:49
10.
Spirate, o iniqui marmi - from Coriolano
03:11
11.
Voi d?un figlio tanto misero - from Coriolano
07:36
12.
Torrente che scende - from Crispo
04:11
13.
Introduzione (Ballo di Larve) from Admeto
01:58
14.
Orride larve - from Admeto
03:11
15.
Chiudetevi miei lumi - from Admeto
03:21
16.
Tigre piagata - from Muzio Scevola
03:09
17.
Sinfonia from Admeto, act ii
01:20
18.
Vivi, tiranno - from Rodelinda,
05:51

Total time: 01:17:53

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807590DI

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Rachel Smith

Recording Engineer

Brad Michel

Recording location

St. John's, Smith Square, London

Recording Software

Pyramix

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Release DateNovember 6, 2014

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