Simone Kermes: Ombra mai fu / Giovanni Bononcini
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Simone Kermes, crowned "Queen of Baroque" by Opera News, presents her eagerly awaited follow-up album to her multi-award-winning album Lava. "Colori d'amore" is a collection of rediscovered baroque arias exploring the various facets of love overflowing with poetry, passion and dazzling virtuosity. Thirteen of the fourteen arias on the disc are world-premiere recordings of forgotten arias by Bononcini, Broschi, Caldara, Matteis and Scarlatti and have been carefully researched by Claudio Osele, who already collaborated with the soprano on her previous album Lava. "Ombra mai fu" by Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670 - 1747) has been the model for Handel's famous version of 1738. The aria was filmed during the recording sessions for "Colori D'Amore".
Giovanni Bononcini
FRONDI TENERE ... OMBRA MAI FU
(Il) Xerse -- Atto I, scena 1 -- Xerse
Frondi tenere e belle
Del mio platano amato,
Per voi risplenda il fato.
Tuoni, lampi e procelle
Non v'oltraggino mai la cara pace,
Né giunga a profanarvi austro rapace.
Ombra mai fu
Di vegetabile
Cara ed amabile,
Soave più.
*
Ihr zarten, schönen Blätter
meiner geliebten Platane,
möge das Schicksal euch freundlich sein.
Mögen Donner, Blitze und Stürme
nie euren kostbaren Frieden stören,
und möge kein verderblicher Südwind euch schaden.
Nie war der Schatten
eines teuren, lieblichen
Gewächses
angenehmer.
*
Lovely green boughs
of my beloved plane tree,
destiny shimmers through you.
Let no thunder, lightning and storms
ever disturb your precious peace
nor any thieving south wind profane you.
Never was the shade
of any plant
more treasured, charming
and sweet.
Text: Silvio Stampiglia (after Nicolò Minato)
Magnificent performance and beautiful voice Simone Kermes. Bravo!!!
You have to admire Simone Kermes for her sheer passion: whether it's something beautiful and introspective like this, or a coloratura fireworks display, she really lives the music - and allows us to as well.
Quando la Bellezza raggiunge questi vertici, i grandi artisti sono toccati nel profondo dell'anima: grazie Simone Kermes!
I have heard this earlier version of "Ombra mai fu" by Gonvanni Bononcini for the first time, and the simplicity and beauty of this aria is stunning. Simone Kermes' ability for singing pianissimo, yet clear and with the utmost balance and control is very touching.
She is sheer beauty.
Simone belongs to those musicians who are, at the same time, emitting and receiving.. singing and listening, sharing those emotions with the audience, while she catches them, there's no surprise to the fact that she can be moved as much as she is moving the audience..
Divina!
I would like to point out that she sings with ONLY ONE BREATH from 1:30 to 1:48. This is just amazing
Solche schönen Version, wie herrlich diese Frau. Händel und Bononcini wäre stolz auf sie.
Tack till alla er som gjort det möjligt att höra dessa underbara musikskatter på Internet.
Beautiful!!
Die Musik alleine ist unglaublich schön. Durch das phantastische Ensemble und die mit Sicherheit zur Weltelite gehörende Simone Kermes lässt einem den Atem stocken. Danke für diese wundervolle Musik💖
Eine magische Arie und eine zauberhafte Sängerin! Gänsehaut beschreibt nur annähernd, was ich beim hören empfinde! DAS ist Musik!!!
This feels like when the heart is a place of prayer...rumi, from the beginning of my life....eleanor
I love both of two.
Esta música, na antológica interpretação de Simone Kermes, vale mais do que todo o ouro deste mundo.
Singing this
She put her deepest feeling of love in the interpretation and she made herself cry of happyness
C'est magique ❤😇
A moving performance of this brief and brilliant aria. Surprises right from the beginning, complete harmony with the orchestra. I must admit, can't stop my tears...
Simone jesteś cudowna i kochana wzruszasz do łez
What probably most people don't realize is that Bononcini's version was actually an adaptation of an earlier composer the Venetian Cavalli who wrote the first "Xerxes" opera about the king infatuated with the plane tree and Cavalli's version is even more plain (no pun intended!) than Bononcini's. Next you will have people say that they prefer this earliest version over the other two. Cavalli's opera is viewable on You Tube.
A very moving aria! Following the words while listening to her exquisite singing brought tears to my eyes as I know that plane trees in Greece are treasured and respected because of their beauty and their blessed shade and then to find that Simone herself was crying at the end, it was a remarkable experience!!!
just great
At last, a very delicate woman soprano
I so love this version of Ombra Mai Fu better than Handel's. Simone is wonderful.
chris
YEEES !!
My first introduction to Simone Kermes was today - so thrilling to see her work.
Notwithstanding that I am a fervent admirer of Handel, I must agree with Simone insofar as this aria is concerned. It is just beautiful.!
Beautiful...
Dziekuję za to wielkie muzyczne wzruszenie! :)
oggi per la prima volta scopro questo strumento di Dio, non ci sono altre parole per descriverne la bravura artistica, vocale ed interpretativa
Simone..the best of the best !
She sings it so deep and ends in tears. Very touching, but she does not react to the words. Neather thunder nor lighting can disturb the deep sorrow (or is it love) she has for this shadow of a tree!?!
I just heard her singing "Canta dolce il rosignolo" aus der Serenade "La gloria di Primavera" by Alessandro Scarlatti on Radio Swiss Classic - sóó beautiful! Then I discovered this item is also on the CD. Also very beautiful!!
Bravaaa!!
I love her! Would be wonderful to see her in Montreal some day...
Handel was partly responsible for running Bononcini out of town. It didn't stop him from dipping into his music though! They are chronologically and stylistically 40 years apart. I love both versions.
Traumhaft schön!
❤
Très bel air... fit perfectly for her!
DIVINE DIVA!
Charmante Madame !!!!
Wow, Simone is coming to Leiden in the Netherlands on the 18th of february! Great opportunity to hear The Voice live in de Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden. See stadspodia.nl
I never knew that the Händel version was an adaption. I think he did improve it.
unsagbar schön interpretiert
HAMMER!
This version is even better than Handel's one
For those interested in the Renaissance (1654 version) of this aria: ua-cam.com/video/7a1IIMBq7Lg/v-deo.html
Beautifully sung, but Handel still has the edge in my view. Both versions parody the original song by Cavalli. How does that one compare?
Cavalli's "Ombra Mai Fu" is not the same song.. It might use the same lyrics, but the music is different and, I would say, more joyful..
Is it a different key than usual?
Più raffinata e intima di quella di Handel!
she may look like a rock of a woman but underneath that fiery pose is a little sweet girl...
I don't get it. Did Haendel steal this from Bononcini or otherwise?
Let's just say Handel borrowed it.
You can hardly call this a borrowing when Handel's piece is so different in many respects and Bononcini's is not in itself wholly original. In an operatic context Handel's works better and is melodically on an altogether different level.
Wunderschön gesungen, chapeau, Divina Hermes ... aber pardon! Ist hier ein geliebter Mensch verstorben oder geht es um den Schatten einer Platane? Mit Händels 'Diebstahl' befasst sich ebenso humorvoll dieses Video, im Ernst! ua-cam.com/video/Je-GO0LvFkw/v-deo.html
wir dich lieben