L'Âge d'Or des Castrats (3rd version)

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Pietro Domenico Olivero, The Teatro Regio, Turin, prob. 1740.

Pietro Domenico Olivero, The Teatro Regio, Turin
(probably depicts a performance of Francesco Feo's Arsace in 1740),
prob. 1740, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin

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This recording re-released all tracks
from Aris's first two albums with EMI,
L'Âge d'Or des Castrats (1986) and
Hommage à Farinelli (1988)

Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747)

Griselda: 3 arias of Ernesto

01 -
"Che giova fuggire"
1'27"

02 -
"Troppo è il dolore"
5'45"

03 -
"Per la gloria d'adoravi"
2'31"

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)

3 recitatives and rondos (Metastasio)

04 -
"Misero me... Nel partir bell'idol mio"
7'09"

05 -
"Ebben si vada... Io ti lascio"
7'02"

06 -
"Mi scordi i torti miei... Dolci aurette"
7'01"

Stephen Storace (1762-1796)

Poro, Re dell'Indie
(recitative and rondo for Tenducci)

07 -
"Ah, se Poro mai vedi... Digli che son fedele"
5'28"
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Digli che son fedele is Cleofide's aria from Poro, Re dell'Indie. This popular opera with a libretto by Metastasio was set by a number of composers, including Hasse who used the title Cleofide. This aria was set by Storace for the Italian castrato Ferdinando Tenducci. It was performed at a concert organized by Carl Friedrich Abel at Abel's concert hall in Hanover Square, London on the 8th of May, 1782.