Sventurati miei sospiri (Ferrandini) Anne Sofie von Otter

"Sventurati miei sospiri"

sung by Ann Sofie von Otter
Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel

Sventurati miei sospiri
Se quest'alma non sciogliete,
Molto poco voi potete
Molto lieve e il mio dolore
Atrocissimi martiri
che in humor gli occhi stillate,
Poco e il duol se non stemprate
Tutto in lagrime anche il core.

[My wretched sighs,
if you do not free this soul,
you can do very little,
my grief is very light.
Most fearful torments
that my eyes distill in weeping,
small is my grief if you do not
also dissolve my whole heart in tears.]

Il Pianto di Maria (The Virgin's Lament) a cantata composed by Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710-91) and until recently misattributed to Handel as HWV 234.

1. Recitativo: "Giunta l'ora fatal dal ciel prescritta"
2. Cavatina: "Se d'un Dio fui fatta Madre"
3. Recitativo accompagnato & Cavatina da capo: "Ah me infelice . . . Se d'un Dio"
4. Recitativo: "Ahimè ch'Egli già esclama ad alta voce"
5. Aria: "Sventurati miei sospiri"
6. Recitativo accompagnato: "Sì disse la gran Madre"
7. Aria: "Pari all'amor immenso"
8. Recitativo accompagnato: "Or se per grande orror tremò la terra"

CD available from Archiv Produktion:

http://www.amazon.com/Marian-Cantatas-George-Frideric-Handel/dp/B0000057EK/re...

Artists in the order of appearance:

(0:30) Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)
(0:44) Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1400-1464)
(1:00) Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480-1538)
(1:09) Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin (1821-1892)
(1:20) Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1400-1464)
(1:31) Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
(1:52) Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480-1556)
(2:04) Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
(2:30) Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510)
(2:40) Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
(3:12) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
(3:38) Angelo Bronzino (1503-1572)
(4:05) Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)
(4:12) Simon Vouet (1590-1649)
(5:00) Giovanni Battista Gaulli, also known as Baciccio (1639-1709)
(5:26) Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516)
(5:42) William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
(6:02) Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489-1534),
(6:14) Gabriel Wüger (1829-1892)
(6:28) Robert Campin (c. 1375-1444)
(6:40) Andrea del Sarto (c. 1486-c. 1530)
(6:48) Luis de Morales (c. 1510-1586)
(7:08) Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609-1685)

A nice description of the cantata can be found here:

http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/ilpianto.shtml

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