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Franco Fagioli - Arias for Caffarelli (Riccardo Minasi; Hasse, Vinci, Leo, Porpora, Pergolesi, Leo, Cafaro, Sarro, Manna) Music
Posted by Sowulo at Jan. 10, 2015
Franco Fagioli - Arias for Caffarelli (Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo D’Oro; Hasse, Vinci, Leo, Porpora, Pergolesi, Leo, Cafaro, Sarro, Manna)
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 1cd, 378 MB
Classical | Naive 2013 | V5333 | CD 78'34
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 1cd, 378 MB
Classical | Naive 2013 | V5333 | CD 78'34
Caffarelli, castrato assoluto, was a famed rival to the more famous Farinelli. Born Gaetano Majorano in Bitonto in 1710 - he was to die in Naples in 1783 - he studied with his rival’s teacher, Nicola Porpora. He travelled across Europe, singing in the most prestigious opera houses, earning huge amounts and behaving exceptionally badly. His one season in London in 1737-38 singing for Handel was, however, a resounding failure and it’s to the repertoire of the Naples School that this disc turns in order to present arias most associated with this most touchy, querulous and downright rude castrato of the eighteenth-century.
– Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International.