A Souvenir from London Francesca Cassinari & Stile Galante

• Luigi Marchesi (1754 - 1829): 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano):
• 1 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Nice mia, oh Dio, rammenta 03:49
• 2 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 2, Che ciascun per te sospiri 03:06
• 3 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 3, Sembianze amabili 03:14
• 6 Ariettes, Op. 11:
• 4 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11: No. 5, Auretta grata 02:05
• Martin-Pierre Dalvimare (1772 - 1839): Variations on a Piemontois Air (Arr. A. Krumpholtz for Harp):
• 5 Dalvimare: Variations on a Piemontois Air (Arr. A. Krumpholtz for Harp) 08:21
• Luigi Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11:
• 6 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11: No. 1, Tu che parli all'idol mio 02:44
• 7 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11: No. 3, Che fa il mio bene? 02:57
• 8 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11: No. 4, Non è ver che l'ira insegni 02:07
• James Cervetto (1748 - 1837): 6 Duets, Op. 5 No. 1 (Version for 2 Cellos):
• 9 Cervetto: 6 Duets, Op. 5 No. 1 (Version for 2 Cellos): I. Allegro 07:06
• 10 Cervetto: 6 Duets, Op. 5 No. 1 (Version for 2 Cellos): II. Aria. Andantino 06:13
• 11 Cervetto: 6 Duets, Op. 5 No. 1 (Version for 2 Cellos): III. Allegro 03:56
• Luigi Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano):
• 12 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 5, Son vicino al ben che adoro 01:56
• 6 Ariettes, Op. 11:
• 13 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11: No. 6, Il capriccio 02:15
• 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano):
• 14 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 4, Ah, furbicel d'Amore 02:30
• Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíková (1769 - 1833): Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 2:
• 15 Dusíková: Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 2: I. Allegro moderato 05:58
• 16 Dusíková: Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 2: II. Adeste Fideles with 5 Variations 06:48
• 17 Dusíková: Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 2: III. Waltz. Allegro moderato 03:22
• Luigi Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano):
• 18 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 1 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 6, Se guido il gregge al prato 01:28
• 6 Ariettes, Op. 11:
• 19 Marchesi: 6 Ariettes, Op. 11: No. 2, Se mai di lei t'accendi 02:00
• Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (1747 - 1790): Minuet & Variations (Arr. A. Krumpholtz for Harp):
• 20 Krumpholz: Minuet & Variations (Arr. A. Krumpholtz for Harp) 09:03
• Total Runtime 01:20:58

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Five years ago, Stile Galante dedicated a recording with the renowned Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg to the celebrated soprano castrato Luigi Marchesi (1754-1829). Accompanied by soprano Francesca Cassinari, Stile Galante is now going back to this extraordinary musician and presents his work as a composer of chamber vocal music.

Marchesi published during his stay in London two different collections of ariettas with fortepiano and harp accompaniment. The Ariette Op. 1 and Op. 2 are sweet musical cameos dominated by remarkable elegance. They perfectly embody the taste of the time and represent Marchesi’s wish to use his popularity as an opera singer to push in front of the audience a more all-round image of himself as an artist.

The program is rounded off with brilliant instrumental pieces for fortepiano and harps by female composers Anne-Marie Krumpholz (1766-1824) and Veronika Rosalia Cianchettini (1769–1833) who worked with Marchesi in London.

Francesca Cassinari, mezzo-soprano
Stile Galante
Stefano Aresi, direction

Francesca Cassinari
graduated in Singing, and later specialized in Baroque Singing and in Chamber Music, attending masterclasses by Claudio Cavina, Gloria Banditelli, Claudine Ansermet and Lorna Windsor.

She especially devoted herself to vocal polyphony, singing with the most eminent italian ensembles in many of the most important concerthall. Francesca is a member of La Compagnia del Madrigale, La Fonte Musica (Michele Pasotti), Il Canto di Orfeo (Gianluca Capuano), La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina), and she performed with Capella Reyal de Catalunya (Jordi Savall), Collegium 1704 (Vaclav Luks), RSI Choir (Diego Fasolis), L’Astrée (Giorgio Tabacco), Club Médiéval (Thomas Baeté).As a soloist and in ensemble she collaborated with Rinaldo Alessandrini’s Concerto Italiano (in 2017 tour in Spain, China and Australia with Orfeo by Monteverdi as Messaggera and Speranza and at Carnegie Hall in New York playing Fortuna and Valletti in Coronatione di Poppea), Fabio Bonizzoni’s La Risonanza (recent participation to the Resurrezione by Haendel as the Angel at Bozar in Bruxelles, Concertgebouw in Bruges and at the Arsenal in Metz), Lorenzo Ghielmi’s La Divina Armonia (many times at Utrecht Festival with German baroque cantatas and in 2018 in Hall in Tirol with the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi), Antonio Frigè and Gabriele Cassone’s Pian&Forte, Stefano Aresi’s Stile Galante.

With La Compagnia del Madrigale she has recorded Gesualdo’s Terzo and Sesto libro de’ Madrigali and Responsoria, Monterverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and Pianto della Madonna, Marenzio’s Primo libro de’ Madrigali and Quinto libro a sei and the recente collection of madrigals by Cipriano de Rore Vieni dolce Imeneo, all published by Glossa Music and awarded Diapason d’Or de l’année and Gramophone Award. With La Venexiana she recorded Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Coronatione di Poppea, Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, and the Concerto delle Dame by Luzzasco Luzzaschi. With Stile Galante she recorded cantatas by Porpora and by Vinci for Pan Classics.

She regularly sings also late medieval and early renaissance polyphony. With La Fonte Musica she recorded the cds Le Ray au Soleyl (ORF/Alte Musik) and Metamorfosi 300 (Alpha, Diapason d’or) and with Cantica Symphonia Dufay’s Motets and the Missa l’Homme Armè by Busnois (Glossa).

Francesca also performs chamber and contemporary music (A Dog’s Heart by A. Raskatov at La Scala in Milan and at the Opéra de Lyon with Il Canto di Orfeo). In 2003 she has obtained a BA degree in “Communication Sciences” with a dissertation about “Broadcasting of classical music in Italian Television”.

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