Early Music Vancouver Philippe Jaroussky: La Gelosia

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Global star Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as the most admired countertenor of his generation. In this appearance with Ensemble Artaserse, Jaroussky performs a selection of vocal compositions by Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and the 18th-century opera master Porpora, making for a glittering season finale.

PROGRAMME

Domenico Scarlatti(1685-1757)
Sinfonia in C (Presto – Adagio)

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Ombre tacite e sole

Recit: Ombre tacite e sole

Aria: Con piede errante e lasso

Recit: Qui, tra tenebre oscure

Aria: Allora d’intorno a te

Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Sinfonia in e minor (Adagio – Ricercare al quarto tono – Largo – Presto)

Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
La Gelosia

Recit: Perdono, amata Nice

Aria: Bei labbri

Recit: Son reo, non mi difendo

Aria: Giura il nocchier

Interval

Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
La Gelosia

Recit: Perdono, amata Nice

Aria: Bei labbri

Recit: Son reo, non mi difendo

Aria: Giura il nocchier

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for strings in g minor KV157 (Allegro-Largo- Allegro)

Antonio Vivaldi

Cessate, omai cessate!

Recit: Cessate, omai cessate!

Aria: Ah, che infedele sempre

Recit: A voi dunque ricorro

Aria: Nel orrido albergo

Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Born in 1978, Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as the most admired countertenor of his generation.
Jaroussky’s technique allows him the most audacious nuances and impressive pyrotechnics. He has explored a vast Baroque repertoire, from the refinement of the Italian Seicento with Monteverdi, Sances and Rossi, to the staggering brilliance of Handel and Vivaldi arias (singing more music by the latter composer than any other over the last few years).
He has worked with renowned period-instrument orchestras such as L’Arpeggiata, Les Arts florissants, Ensemble Matheus, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Le Concert d’Astrée, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Europa Galante with conductors including Christina Pluhar, William Christie, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs, Jérémie Rhorer, Emmanuelle Haïm, Jean-Claude Malgoire and Fabio Biondi. With pianist Jerôme Ducros, he has looked beyond the Baroque – to fin-de-siècle French song (the album Opium), as well as premiering contemporary vocal music composed for him by Marc-André Dalbavie (Sonnets de Louise Labé, which Jaroussky sang most recently at the 2014 Salzburg Festival).
In recent years he has collaborated with singers including Cecilia Bartoli and Nathalie Stutzmann, as well as singing with and directing the Ensemble Artaserse, the Baroque orchestra he founded in 2002. The group takes its name from the Vinci opera Artaserse, which Jaroussky revived in its spectacular modern-day permiere as one of five exceptional countertenors in the cast.

Ensemble Artaserse
In 2002, after long collaboration in the most prestigious baroque ensembles in France and Europe, several musicians decided to form Ensemble Artaserse. Those friends were Christine Plubeau (viola da gamba), Claire Antonini (theorbe), Yoko Nakamura (harpsichord and organ) and, of course, Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor). In October 2002 they presented their first and highly-acclaimed concert in the Theatre du Palais-Royal in Paris, with the Musiche a voce sola by the Italian composer Benedetto Ferrari.

With this ability to adapt to numerous repertoires including music by Antonio Vivaldi, George Friedric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli, the ensemble performed progressively in the most famous venues and festivals in France, such as the Festivals of Ambronay, Sablé, Pontoise, Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache, Festival de Musique Ancienne de Lyon, Salle Gaveau, the Auditorium du Louvre and the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris, the Château de Versailles, the Bordeaux Opera, the Nancy Opera etc.
Abroad, Ensemble Artaserse have been invited to perform in the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, in the Escurial in Madrid, the Palau de la Musica in Valencia or the Festival of Santiago de Compostelles (Spain), the Festival of the Azores (Portugal), the Prague Festival of ancien music, the South Bank Center and the Barbican Center in London, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berliner Philharmonie, Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Bozar in Brussels and the Philharmonie Hall in Krakow (Poland) etc.
Highly acclaimed by press and public, Artaserse’s discography demonstrates its musical openness and ability to adapt to the repertoire at hand. The ensemble has recorded several albums for Erato/Warner Classics: “Pietà”, which explores Vivaldi’s sacred music; “The Handel Album”, which combines famous arias with unpublished operas by the composer; “Ombra mai fu”, which opens the doors to the fascinating world of Cavalli’s operas; and finally “La Vanità del Mondo”, a CD that gathers real sacred jewels from the 17th and 18th centuries. On the recently released album “Dualità”, on which the soprano Emoke Baráth sings the great arias of Handel’s opera, Philippe Jaroussky slips into the role of conductor for the first time. The ensemble’s discography also includes Benedetto Ferrari’s “Musiche a voce sola” (Ambroisie-Naïve) and two very acclaimed albums for Virgin Classics: Virtuoso cantatas by Vivaldi and “Beata Vergine” with 17th century Italian music devoted to the Virgin Mary (Timbre de Platine of Opera International etc).
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