Philippe Jaroussky, Vivaldi, Vedro con mio diletto

This is by far the most beautiful version of the aria from opera Il Giustino I have heard until now. On other performances, even in Vivaldi CD recording, they (Spinosi+Jaroussky) have never reached such a sublime tension.

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[DannyDaWriter]

The aria seems to have been transposed from b minor to a minor - a change I'm not to fond of, actually. B minor in my opinion is a much sweeter for an aria of such dolorousness as this.

Still, Jaroussky does a very splendid job performing this aria, as he always does. Bravo!

[artisLV]

You are right on transposition. My experience tells, they do it for this aria. (Even in the Heroes CD.) As the range of this aria is medium-high, probably, PJ tries to reduce the number of his passing notes on B and C.

[BaroqueFever]

Thanks a lot for posting this, Philippe is great as always. I hope that Spinosi once will record Giustino, he's one of my favourite conductors.

[artisLV]

Il Giustino has been already recorder by Alan Curtis in 2002 but, of course, after Spinosi it is very hard to listen to others. Even though some critics (ones who are used to English type of hymnatic Handel) accuse him for too agressive way of playing, Spinosi's Vivaldi is the most expressive one.

[BaroqueFever]

Since the original score of this opera is located at the Turin Library, there's no doubt that someone is going to record it as a part of Naïve's Vivaldi Edition, and hopefully it'll be Spinosi.

[artisLV]

Spinosi has said that his next recording of La fida ninfa will be his last Vivaldi opera for Naive. In fact, score of Il Giustino has been published about 1978 for Vivaldi's 300th anniversary by Ricordi. Of course, it is overedited according to that time baroque standards and it is not quite suitable to nowdays performing requirements.

[Tigermuc]

Maestro Spinosi is a conductor, dancer, comedian and acrobat on stage!

[CosplayChroniclesPro]

Girl or guy? O.o

[rodrigoraulsuarez]

Amazing vid! Beautiful performance!

[Erikrenate]

@artisLV Also keep in mind that this is written in the baroque. Nowadays the common A is 440Hz. Back than it was 415 Hz. So if it says B minor it was actualy in Bb minor. (415 isn't a proper G# btw)

[KusVanS]

gay

[incrowdcynic]

@DannyDaWriter You took the words from my mouth. Well, it's darker.

[LaciSusman]

Gyonyoru,senki sem tudja ugy énekelni mint o (Hun)Beautiful, No one can sing like him.

[derholerache]

Asombroso. Ojalá que cuando se aburra de ganar euros, baje acá al cono sur de América y nos deleite en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, o en el Teatro Municipal de Santiago e incluso en el Teatro Regional del Maule (Chile)...wou!!!, sería el mega evento de mi vida. También me gustaría emocionarme al punto de las lágrimas...

[wieck81]

Qué suerte... yo aún espero poder verlo. Tiene la voz de un arcángel

[gbreisacher]

Wow the guy coughing in the background at 4:50 ruins it...