Se t’eclissi o bella face (Agostino Steffani) Giulia Semenzato

[@carinethimister9320]

Quelle magnifique façon de débuter l' année grâce à vous cher Jeffre, avec cette splendidemusique. Je vous souhaite le meilleur pour 2025 et vous remercie déjà pour les heureux moments que vous nous permettrez de partager avec vous.

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome, and thank you for your kind support and encouragement. Wishing you a very happy new year!

[@julieforgue9530]

Une belle découverte pour moi 🎶❣️🎶❣️🎶 Merci 🙏

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome. It’s always nice to discover “new” music.

[@חנהמרוסיה]

С Новым годом, мр. Стиверс! Успехов и процветания Вам и этому прекрасному каналу!

[@JeffreyStivers]

Thank you for the encouragement. Happy New Year to you too!

[@lauracompagnoni]

That's truly ineffable! Those portraits of women emerging from the darkness are so fascinating! Thank you, dear Jeffrey. Have a good day.

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome. The art selected was inspired by the text which begins (translated): “If you are extinguished, O fair torch, I am left amid gloomy darkness.” I’m glad you enjoyed it. Happy New Year!

[@sacredkinetics.lns.8352]

Wonderful match ( pictorial and musical ) A delicate touch to the soul. Thanks dear Jeffrey.

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Kind greetings.

[@mariaesperanza6548]

Thanks a lot for that bits of heaven you provide us. Please take care of yourself we need you ❤

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome, and thank you for your kind words of support and encouragement.

[@TheodoreAngelos]

Truly heartwrenching, but luckily enough, dear Jeffrey, your uploads keep coming also in the new year. May 2025 be a blessed one for you and your family!

[@JeffreyStivers]

Thank you, dear Theo. I hope you have a wonderful new year. Wishing you all the best!

[@oguzceu]

Thanks for this, Jeffrey. Incredible bassoon work here. Refreshing!

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome. I made sure to credit the bassoonist in the video and the video description, because the playing is very impressive.

[@prisciliaweeks9037]

Merveilleux instants ...metci

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@tšanchezt]

Hi dear Jeffrey: Sublime and marvelous. Thanks. Happy new year.

[@JeffreyStivers]

You’re welcome. Happy New Year!

[@AnitaArt49]

Hope to hear more non Handel arias on your channel in 2025. Great bassoon!

[@JeffreyStivers]

There will definitely be more Handel, but I’m going to start off the year with some lesser known composers.

[@AnitaArt49]

@JeffreyStivers Well, I don't mind Handel ;-) It's just good to listen a bit more to Vivaldi, Steffani, Porpora, Ariosti, Lotti and Co

[@JeffreyStivers]

@ To be honest, it was only somewhat recently that I began to focus my channel on Handel. The next several weeks will definitely feature other composers, things I have been wanting to promote for some time now.

[@kaloarepo288]

Love this composer -he was born in a town not far from where I came from and he was active in northern Germany in the areas where the present British royals come from (Hanover.) Influenced Handel!

[@JeffreyStivers]

As you may know, this opera premiered in Hanover in 1691.

[@kaloarepo288]

@@JeffreyStivers Another impressive opera by Steffani which I own as a CD is "Niobe, queen of Thebes" there was a revival and performances of this opera in both Europe and north America about 10 years ago. Steffani also wrote an opera called "Henry the Lion" which was a direct tribute to his Hanoverian or Guelph patrons as the German medieval figure called Henry the Lion was an ancestor of that dynasty. Steffani, a priest, was also the papal nuncio to the largely Lutheran northern German states.If I remember correctly a lot of his scores come from the British royal archives and libraries.

[@JeffreyStivers]

@ I have a recording of the Niobe opera by the Boston Early Music Festival. I have their recording Duets of Love and Passion, which features duets by Steffani. I also have a recording of his Stabat Mater performed by The Sixteen.

[@kaloarepo288]

@@JeffreyStivers All I remember about the caste of Niobe in my CD is that Jaroussky is in it.

[@JeffreyStivers]

@ Yes, Jaroussky sings on that recording.

[@SilvioNobre]

Splendid! Always grateful my dear Jeffrey, happy new year to you.

[@JeffreyStivers]

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Wishing you all the best in the new year!