Gemma Bertagnolli: Sul doloroso monte; De Majo (Gesù sotto il peso della croce)

[frague1981]

I listened to this in 2006 in Rome and it was wonderful! Fabio Biondi conducted and there was Ian Bostridge, too.

[6134447]

Gemma! Thank you so much!

[divasperanza]

Great! How did you find De Majo's portrait? And this is a promissed one by El Greco!!

Thank you for sharing!!

Why does this piece has such a happy taste, but this is a song of Calvario?

I think it's not a debut of Bertagnolli on your channel, but touched by her voice: a real gem!

[Thrax1982]

Google image search :P

As for the "happy taste" - to me it seems to go

back and forth between "happy" and "sad".

[NemoProkofiev551]

This composer once again! Talk about rare gems!! =)

I googled his name, but didn't really get much other than him being the composer of a three-act opera titled "Alessandro". Man, I wish I had amazing Google-ninja skills. =(

[Thrax1982]

There's more on the way.

But yes, there's not much info out there - not even an article on English Wikipedia.

[whistlenotelover]

'Di rendermi la calma': Erisenna's aria from act II 'is an amazing bravura aria clocking at almost 10 minutes of coloratura fireworks ala 'Ana de Amicis' magnitude! :-) And yes this very melodic, galante aria has a 'baroqueish' nostalgia to it, and has poignant sweeps of bittersweet arduousness, depicting the inevitability of the text telling of Christ's destiny towards ultimate sacrifice.

{*I do wish the tempo would have been slightly slower as Roberta Invernizzi's rendition portrays}