Farinelli: Ombra fedele anch'io

This study video is NOT presented for the voices. First, the merged countertenor and soprano voices are not the high quality of an Andreas Scholl, Maria Cristina Kiehr, or a Gundula Janowitz. Second, Their imprecise technique, breathiness, phrasing, scooping, and vibrato are contrary to the qualities required of this castrato aria written by Riccardo Broschi for his brother Carlo. What this soundtrack does demonstrate very clearly is the expected Baroque style of added ornamentation and performer interpretation departing from the basic A-B-A musical score, especially in the da capo section. A keyboard / vocal transcription is provided along with the audio track so that the viewer can perceive those departures from the score, especially in the repeated theme. sfkcbf

Idaspe, by Riccardo Broschi (1698-1756). Darios aria, Act II, Scene XI.

Ombra fedele anchio / Sul margin di Lete / Seguir volIdol mio / Che tanto adoro. //
Che bella pace e questa / Cha consolar sen resta / Il mio martoro. // (repeat theme)///
As a faithful shade, I too / On the banks of Lethe / Will follow my idol / Whom I adore. //
What lovely peace is this / That alone can console / My suffering. // (repeat theme.

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Music

Tags:

• Farinelli
• Carlo
• Broschi
• Riccardo
• castrato
• Baroque
• opera

[dontshakeme]

I love you for uploading this precious piece of my very heart!!!!!!! <3

[sfkcbf]

@dontshakeme I play this aria, with this particular da-capo interpretation, on my Bösendorfer grand piano almost every day.

[dontshakeme]

@sfkcbf I have been looking for this libretto for about 18 years!!! wish I could listen to your play....

[sfkcbf]

@dontshakeme I always try to play "hearing" how music would be sung with the human voice. I never play in a pedestrian manner. Of course, the wonderful tone of my Bösendorfer helps allot. I have used this aria many times to demonstrate for friends the form of a Baroque, da-capo aria. I regret the lost of the Baoque opera form which showed indivdual interpretations on the repeats.

[PiroozAzDirooz]

@sfkcbf Can you do a Youtube of your performance please? :)

[sfkcbf]

@PiroozAzDirooz I appreciate your request. I have thought that friends might enjoy hearing the piano transciption; however, I have no plans to record one. I prefer everything to be high quality, and I do not have the recording equipment or experience to do that at this time.

[PiroozAzDirooz]

Bravo et vive Le Farinelli et Seniore Broschi Barvo!

[kikivolauvent1]

very interesting to follow the score! thank you for this work!

[Taenyr]

Castrati also didn't need as many rests - without the usual hormone levels, their bodies developed to have an enormous lung capacity.