To be clear, the recording to feature Falletta as lute soloist does NOT feature the whole oratorio, only the sinfonia from "Il Sacrifizio di Abramo". Judith Nelson appears only on one cantata--"Jonas" (no lute evident in the cantata) by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre--on the Baroquen Treasures disc. It's also interesting that the Wikipedia article neglects to mention Falletta at all. Not only is she lute soloist on the four-movement sinfonia, but she conducts the orchestra throughout the whole of the CD.
Thanks for word of the CPO recording. I'm keen to try to track that one down. Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of howard posner > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:06 AM > To: Lute list > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Unbalanced > > For newcomers who look at the wikipedia article, Camilla de Rossi's > "Il Sacrifizio di Abramo" is not a "four-movement sinfonia" but an > oratorio with a four-movement sinfonia for strings and continuo > (between the first and second parts) that has a prominent lute > obbligato, which occasionally sounds like a lute concerto in the > outer movements. It sounds not particularly difficult to play, so > those players who are chummy with two violinists, a violist a cellist > and another continuo player might want to give it a try. Rossi is a > particularly tantalizing figure because almost nothing is known about > her. > > A recording by Weser-Renaissance, directed by Manfred Cordes, with > Thomas Ihlenfeldt on archlute and a cast of several, came out on CPO > in 1996. It's fairly available, and Amazon.com helpfully points out > that you can find references to it "Women and Music: A History" and > "The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers." > > The 1990 [San Francisco] Bay Area Women's Philharmonic with JoAnn > Falletta playing the lute-of-some-sort, mentioned by Eugene, doesn't > seem to be available, unless you want to check it out of the Chicago > Public Library. The soprano on that recording, Judith Nelson, did > significant early music recording in London (with the likes of > Hogwood, Rooley, Emma Kirkby and David Thomas) and elsewhere, but the > BAWP is an all-purpose group that plays music from all periods. > Indeed, if you're interested in samples of music by wopersons who may > not be household names, check out its site at: > > www.rebeccaclarke.org/wophil > > On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:35 PM, EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: > > > There is de Rossi: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_de_Rossi > > > > ...and a decent recording by JoAnn Falletta on "lute" (I'm not > > certain which incarnation of lute) of one of de Rossi's works for > > archlute and strings on: > > Bay Area Women's Philharmonic. 1990. Baroquen Treasures. Newport > > Classic, NCD 60102. > > > > I don't know how easy it would be to locate this recording any longer. > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
