Sophie Junker, {oh!} Orkiestra, Martyna Pastuszka
AP337 - 1CD - 73' - Mar 7, 2025
This album celebrates the splendor of 18th-century Venetian opera, where drama and vocal beauty explore the full spectrum of human passions. Alongside Martyna Pastuszka and the {oh!} Orkiestra, Sophie Junker brings these emotions to life, from Vivaldi’s fury to Ariadne’s laments. Pastuszka’s violin shines in a concerto from La Stravaganza—a perfectly fitting title for this extraordinary program.
Eighteenth-century Venice was the epitome of splendour: architectural, pictorial, theatrical, musical and vocal. Venetian opera shone throughout Europe, combining dramatic force with the beauty of the vocal line. Like Canaletto and Guardi, who painted all the sides of the Serenissima in their panoramas, composers sought to explore the spectrum of human passions through opera.
Sophie Junker invites us to meet them, alongside Martyna Pastuszka, conductor of the {oh!} Orkiestra. Her brilliant, acrobatic soprano blossoms in arias of fury and vengeance (Vivaldi or Lotti), or in the heart-rending complaints of an Iphigenia (Porta) or an Ariadne (Marcello). Martyna Pastuszka's violin leads one of the splendid ‘La Stravaganza’ (the extraordinary) concertos: a fine subtitle for this program!
ANTONIO LOTTI : Giove in Argo
1. Con fiamme, e con straggi (Iside)
ANTONIO CALDARA : Temistocle
2. Chi mai d’iniqua stella (Aspasia)
ANTONIO VIVALDI : Atenaide RV 702
3. Qual demone, qual furia (Eudossa)
ANTONIO VIVALDI : La Silvia RV 734
4. Mio cor, s’io ti credessi (Nerina)
BENEDETTO MARCELLO : Arianna
5. Come mai puoi vedermi piangere (Arianna)
ANTONIO VIVALDI : Violin concerto in A minor ‘La Stravaganza’ op. 4 no. 4, RV 357
6. I. Allegro
7. II. Grave
8. III. Allegro
ANTONIO VIVALDI : Ottone in Villa RV 729
9. L’ombre, l’aure, e ancora il rio (Caio)
FRANCESCO GASPARINI : Bajazet
10. Vendetta sì, farò (Asteria)
FRANCESCO GASPARINI : Ambleto
11. Sì, ti sente l’alma mia (Ildegarde)
TOMASO ALBINONI Andromeda liberata
12. Si, rinforzi in te la spene (Cassiope)
GIOVANNI PORTA : Ifigenia in Aulide
13. Madre diletta, abbracciami (Ifigenia)
ANTONIO VIVALDI
14. Zeffiretti, che sussurrate RV 749.21
ANTONIO CALDARA Caio Marzio Coriolano
15. Per combatter con lo sdegno (Claudia)
