Altus: From Castrato to Countertenor

Album by Margaret Cable.

Release date: 2008-11-28

Tracks (44)

  1. Vivaldi: Giustino, RV 717, Act 1: "Vedrò con mio diletto" (Anastasio)
  2. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater: I. Stabat mater dolorosa
  3. Purcell: Oedipus, Z. 583: No. 2, Song. "Musick for a While" (Version for Voice and Guitar)
  4. Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Frondi tenere" - Arioso. "Ombra mai fù" (Serse)
  5. Pergolesi: Salve Regina in F Minor: II. Ad te clamamus
  6. Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 "Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday": No. 3, Duet. "Sound the Trumpet"
  7. Vivaldi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, RV 621: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
  8. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus in G Minor, RV 608: IV. Cum dederit
  9. Bach, JS: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei
  10. Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 2: No. 30, Aria. "Es ist vollbracht"
  11. Vivaldi: O qui coeli terraeque serenitas, RV 631: IV. Alleluia
  12. Bellini: 6 Ariette da camera: No. 1, Malinconia, ninfa gentile
  13. Bach, JS: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170: No. 1, Aria. "Vergnügte Ruh beliebte Seelenlust"
  14. Legrenzi: Sentimenti devoti, Op. 6: No. 4, Ave Regina coelorum
  15. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act 3: "Ahimè! Dove trascorsi?" - "Che farò senza Euridice" (Orfeo)
  16. Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: Aria. "He Was Despised and Rejected of Men"
  17. Vivaldi: Pianti, sospiri e demandar mercede, RV 676: "Cor ingrato dispietato"
  18. Schubert: Ave Maria, Op. 52 No. 6, D. 839 (Version for Voice and Guitar)
  19. Handel: Fernando, rè di Castiglia, HWV 30, Act 3: Aria. "Sincero affetto dolce preghiere" (Sancio)
  20. Bach, JS: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: VI. Duet. "Et misericordia"
  21. Schubert: 2 Lieder, Op. 43: No. 2, Nacht und Träume, D. 827
  22. Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, Act 2: Aria. "Minacciami, non ho timor" (Amadigi)
  23. Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act 1: Recitativo. "Madre! Mia vita!" - Duetto. "Son nata a lagrimar" (Sesto, Cornelia)
  24. Du Buisson: Airs sérieux et à boire, Livre IX: Plainte sur la mort de Monseur Lambert
  25. Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act 3: Aria. "Amor, tiranno Amor" (Arsamene)
  26. Handel: Admeto, HWV 22, Act 2: Aria. "Chi è nato alle sventure" (Trasimede)
  27. Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7, H 81b: III. Sur les lagunes, H 84b
  28. Bach, JS: Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248, Pt. 1: No. 4, Aria. "Bereite dich, Zion, mit zärtlichen Trieben"
  29. Handel: Fernando, rè di Castiglia, HWV 30, Act 3: Aria. "M'opporrò da generoso" (Fernando)
  30. Orff: Carmina Burana, Pt. 2 "In taberna": Olim lacus colueram
  31. Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: Aria. "O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" (David)
  32. Charpentier: Troisième répons apres la troisème leçon du Vendredi saint, H. 131 "Ecce quomodo"
  33. Silent Night
  34. Handel: Conservate, raddopiate, HWV 185
  35. Mozart: Mitridate re di Ponto, K. 87, Act 1: Aria. "Venga pur" (Farnace)
  36. Rossini: Duetto buffo di due gatti (Also Attributed to Pearsall)
  37. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308, Act 3: "Pur ti moro, pur ti godo" (Poppea, Nerone)
  38. Rossini: Semiramide, Act 1: Recitativo. "Eccomi alfine in Babilonia" - Cavatina. "Ah! Quel giorno ognor rammento" (Arsace)
  39. Maladresse
  40. Traditional: Greensleeves
  41. Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Welcome Wanderer!" (Oberon)
  42. Shenandoah
  43. Plaisir d'amour
  44. Rossini: Petite messe solennelle: X. Crucifixus (Version for Voice and Piano)

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