Jommelli - Arias from Attilio Regolo - Joyce DiDonato - mezzo-soprano

[@maurorocca1745]

L'incommensurabile Jommelli superbamente interpretato dal mezzo soprano DiDonato. Accoppiata a dir poco straordinaria! Ci credo che W. A. Mozart ammirava "senza limite" il Genio Partenopeo (forse con una mal celata invidia).

[@AndreaRossi-zj8bp]

Eccelso Jommelli e grande Di Donato. Delizie di tutti noi. Sublimi giochi di musica celestiale.

[@mauriciocotapos313]

Bravo Joyce .......

[@akemagnusson54]

Underbara Joyce med sin bländanda teknik och vackra kraftfulla röst. TACK !

[@k.b7905]

And yes, I am reporting back from a crisis that is now over thanks to music like this. What joy in the matter, what a tempo, absolutely brilliant, and yes, the connoisseur knows that even famous composers like Wolfgang Amade - a other children of this time< have themselves Oriented towards it and fortunately taken over a lot in the music of absolute immortality. Of course I also know everyone else, even my beloved Vivaldi is buried in Vienna ....Mille Grazie for the forever unforgotten ... Greetings from Vienna

[@maxhandel7561]

Love it!😊

[@sophied9917]

incomparable Joyce !

[@k.b7905]

Absolutely brilliant -Superbe -Mille Grazie ! what a imposant work with lots of energy and spirit.... i am sure at that time there were really true masters on the way , both as composers and singers... More of this, please! nice greetings and ciao from Vienna.

[@amorroma1244]

Grazie mille.

[@k.b7905]

@@amorroma1244 You're welcome...I've lived in Vienna for a long time and in my dreams I often love the Baroque also the music ...I need this music to overlive like wine or water. Many of the top composers of the time live in Vienna are also one of my absolute favorites here: Antonio Vivaldi died ten months after his arrival in Vienna and was buried on July 28, 1741 in a simple grave on the Spitaller Gottsacker in front of the Kärntnertor, where the main building of the Vienna University of Technology (Karlsplatz 12) is today. There is a memorial plaque for him. In 1972 the Vivaldigasse in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him. Ancora oggi passo spesso davanti a questa piazza e penso a quelle indimenticabili Best regards from Klaus stone mason and stone sculptor....

[@amorroma1244]

@@k.b7905 Thanks for all the background info, Klaus. That is much appreciated. Baroque music is also a second heartbeat for me. It feels good, it releases something in me that I can best describe as a blissful melancholy. I don't know if that combination of words exists. Cordiali saluti da un muratore, anche se non sono uno scalpellino.

[@k.b7905]

@@amorroma1244 Thanks for the nice answer. And don't worry, stonemasons and bricklayers have been working hand in hand for ages. Even today and worldwide . for me there are four pillars in my life 1.music 2.art 3.culture and 4.vehicles.best regards from my last trip to France . kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYPSfZKPrq2BZ9E . Please excuse the poor quality😁

[@amorroma1244]

@@k.b7905 Beautiful images of a beautiful country. I don't know that area very well. I usually go much further south, to the Langue d'Oc. The place where my inspiration for Gnostic philosophy originated. You could call it my spiritual home. But I digress, thanks for sharing your journey, and beautiful music.

[@stefanstamenic3640]

Beautiful aria and great performance.

[@davidattardmontalto6260]

This is not typical baroque music.this music has elements of a new type of music which we call classical ie the music of hadyn and mozart and salieri.

[@amorroma1244]

You are absolutely right. The elements of classical music are certainly present. But the baroque style can also be heard.

[@willemdefesch1687]

Lo stile galante!

[@Mercer1012]

@@amorroma1244 This style of music is called "Galant", and was primarily a product of the Neapolitan School. Early Mozart is also indicative of this style. Jommelli was a product of the Galant style, though his music has a thicker texture due to his forays into the Holy Roman Empire.

[@richardcleaver5440]

Yes indeed. The clearest distinction between the one and the other may perhaps be in listening not to the melodic shapes (very florid here, but so can Mozart be, even in late operas), but the speed of harmonic change, which happens more slowly than in the Baroque. (An oversimplification, but a useful one.) The form is that of a standard opera seria opera da capo--ABA--which you get much less often by Mozart's time. The term Galant is, as others have noted, is a common one for this transitional style; I've also seen it called Rococo.

[@richardcleaver5440]

You do hear it in German-speaking countries too: think of the Mannheim composers a generation before Mozart (he met many of them when he was child prodigy visiting there). They were responding to Italian trends.

[@richardcleaver5440]

FWIW, this opera was first performed in 1753. Hasse set the same Metastasio libretto a few years earlier, and I have an idea I've seen other composers' names attached to it. Lots of Metastasio libretti were used over and over.

[@harunoguzhan6859]

Nefes kesici dinlemekten çok zevk aldım. Eserin tabiatı gereği büyüsüne kapılmmamak elde değil su gibi akıcı 💙💚💜

[@giacomozaccone2284]

Very fantastic voice.Joyce in her virtuoso fashion underlines the typical baroque of leading composers such as Jommelli an Christian Bach

[@Ekvitarius]

Now that you mention it, it sounds very close to JC Bach. Did they ever meet?

[@giacomozaccone2284]

@@EkvitariusD

[@giacomozaccone2284]

Dear Ekvitarius, I think Jommelli was a busy composer working in Europe and especially as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Wurttenberg, did not meet JS Bach. In Italy studied with the famous Padre Martini and Pietro Metastasio was his very closest librettist, Cheers, Giacomo

[@sophied9917]

incomparable Joyce !