Facce d'amore, 'Faces of love', is the second solo album from countertenor Jakub Józef Orlinski. It follows Anima Sacra, released in 2018, an Erato debut which moved Gramophone magazine to announce that "This is a voice with a big future," and The Sunday Times, having extolled the "the unearthly beauty of Orli?ski's tone, his pearly coloratura and fabulous breath control," to say, "He's only 28, but this is a special voice to look out for."
The new album brings a switch from the sacred to the personal and passionate. As the Polish-born, New York-trained singer explains: "On Anima Sacra I wanted to take listeners on a spiritual journey through an entire programme based on sacred music of the 18th century. The idea behind Facce d'amore is a bit different."
The programme – which includes an impressive eight world premiere recordings – comprises "operatic arias that tell a story, showing a musical picture of a male lover in the baroque era. They focus on totally different aspects of love – not only the positive side, like joyful or reciprocated love, but also the side where the characters are possessed by anger or even madness."
Title: Facce D'amore
Format: CD
Release Date: 08 Nov 2019
Artist: Jakub Orlinski Jozef
Sku: 2440866
Catalogue No: 9029542338
Category: Classical
DISC 1
1. Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto (Venezia, 1651): Act II, scene 1: Endimione: Erme e solinghe cime...Lucidissima face
2. Giovanni Antonio Boretti: Eliogabalo (Venezia, 1669): Act III, scene 5: Eliogabalo: Chi scherza con Amor
3. Sinfonia
4. Claudio: Crudo amor non hai pietà
5. Giovanni Bononcini: La Nemica d'Amore fatta amante, Prima Parte (Roma, 1693): Sinfonia
6. Giovanni Bononcini: La Costanza non gradita nel doppio amore d'Aminta (Roma, 1694): Aminta: Infelice mia costanza
7. Alessandro Scarlatti: Pirro e Demetrio (Napoli, 1694): Act II, scene 9: Pirro: Fra gl'assalti di Cupido / Georg Friedrich Händel: Agrippina (Venezia, 1709): Act II, scene 5: Ottone:Otton qual porte
8. Recitativo: Otton qual portentoso fulmine
9. Aria: Voi ch'udite il mio lamento
10. Giuseppe Maria Orlandini / Johann Mattheson: Nerone (Hamburg version 1723): Act I, scene 3: Nerone: Che m'ami ti prega
11. Georg Friedrich Händel: Amadigi di Gaula HWV 11 (London, 1715): Act II, scene 5: Dardano: Pena tiranna
12. Georg Friedrich Händel: Muzio Scevola (London, 1721): Act III, scene 7: Muzio: Spera, ché tra le care gioie
13. Georg Friedrich Händel: Orlando HWV 31 (London, 1719): Act II, scene 11: Orlando: Ah stigie larve !...Vaghe pupille
14. Luca Antonio Predieri: Scipione il giovane (Venezia, 1731): Act III, scene 4: Scipione: Dovrian quest'occhi piangere
15. Nicola Matteis: Ballo dei Bagatellieri
16. Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (Vienna,1719): Act IV, scene 6: Fernando: Odio, vendetta, amore
17. Luca Antonio Predieri: Scipione il giovane (Venezia, 1731): Act I, scene 12: Scipione: Finche salvo è l'amor suo
18. Hasse: Orfeo (London, 1736): Orfeo: Sempre a si vaghi rai
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