Händel: Crudel tiranno Amor, HWV 97 - 1/3 - Zádori
BackCrudel, tiranno Amor, HWV 97 Italian cantata for soprano with strings (2 violins and 1 viola) and basso continuo Text: - Music: Georg Friedrich Händel Composed: June 1721? First performance: probably 5 July 1721, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London ___ Video part 1 - Aria: Crudel tiranno Amor (Allegro - F major) Video part 2 - Recitativo: Ma tu mandi al mio core - Aria: O dolce mia speranza (Larghetto - F minor) Video part 3 - Recitativo: Senza te, dolce spene - Aria: O cara spene, del mio diletto (Allegro - E flat major) ___ In this video: Mária Zádori, soprano Concerto Armonico Artistic directors: Péter Szüts and Miklós Spányi Recorded in January 1992 ___ There is no autograph for this cantata. It appears at the end of the first of the two books of cantatas in Elizabeth Legh's collection of Händel's music. These books are dated 1718 and 1720; however, according to Donald Burrows, they were bound with blank pages at the end, or kept unbound for a few years, or completed with new pages and rebound, and the dates on each volume would only indicate the year in which they were begun. Anthony Hicks thinks that Crudel tiranno Amor was the "new cantata" performed by Margherita Durastanti at her benefit concert on 5 July 1721 at King's Theatre. On 4 December 1722, when she took over Rossane in a revival of the opera Floridante, Händel added to her role the three arias from Crudel tiranno Amor, which tends to prove that she was already familiar with them. Crudel tiranno Amor is probably the last cantata composed by Händel. According to Ellen T. Harris, "it makes a particularly apt ending to Handel's cantata period: on the one hand, it looks back to the significant compositions for Ruspoli in Rome and, on the other, it moves out of the private sphere onto the public stage." And indeed, its three arias are not unworthy of the music composed by Händel for his best operas, which explains why he reused them in the 1722 revival of Floridante. ___ Aria Crudel tiranno Amor, o rendimi 'l mio ben, o dammi libertà! Del suo fedele ardor questa mercede al sen ingrato non si dà. ___ Translation (by Anthony Hicks, slightly edited): Aria Love, cruel tyrant, give back to me my dear one, or give me back my freedom! This reward of a loyal ardour will not belong to an ungrateful breast. ___ Marc D.
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