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The Bird Catcher (by Jommelli)
CDS 436
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Niccolo Jommelli
L Uccellatrice (The Bird-Catcher)
Intermezzo in two acts
Emanuela Galli, soprano
Luciano Grassi, tenor
Orchestra da Camera Milano Classica
Vanni Moretto, conductor
World premiere recording
This delightful intermezzo per musica in two acts - recounting
the old story of a naive young nobleman and of a sly girl who, after a series
of squabbles and pranks, following the best of traditions, declare eternal love
to each other and decide to get married - has pleased audiences ever since its
first performance at the San Samuele Theatre in Venice in 1750, and is here
recorded for the first time. At that time the intermezzo was already a well-defined
and self-standing music form, detached from opera seria, with which, originally,
it had been combined. It was also, however, in a declining phase and nearing
its disappearance. And yet L\'Uccellatrice by Niccolo Jommelli enjoyed many performances
(Leipzig, 1751; Bologna, Ravenna and Vicenza, 1753; Parma, 1756; Florence, 1760;
Pescia, 1772) and was even translated into French, with the score adapted and
enlarged.
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