![]() It's only natural, then, that she should be a specialist in the Baroque repertoire, and this CD shows just how much she has to offer. Prina's Imogene Coca-like stage presence was married to a warm, chocolatey voice that, despite its dark colors, was both agile and feminine. I first noticed Prina in a wacky production from the Théâtre du Châtelet of Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone, issued on DVD by Naïve. What will matter to most people, though, is whether or not this CD stands on its own, and it does, thanks in no small part to the contributions of alto Sonia Prina. The Concerto for strings, RV 136, has been included because of the thematic relationship between its middle movement and the reconstructed aria Abbia respiro il cor. Teuzzone, La verità in cimento, Tito Manlio, and Orlando Furioso have been preserved (and all recorded in toto), but the arias presented here are alternative arias – stuck between the pages, if you will – that have not been heard in three centuries. Scanderbeg e Ormondo, written in 1718, no longer exists except for the two arias recorded here. Sometimes new words were fitted to older music musical detective work has made it possible to reconstruct these arias from their texts even when the music is no longer extant. A third type is comprised of arias from operas (or "serenatas") put together by other hands from the works of various composers, not just Vivaldi. Among the former, at least in size, are alternative arias from extant operas, and isolated arias belonging to operas now otherwise lost. ![]() ![]() As the holdings of the National University Library of Turin continue to be explored, small and large discoveries are made. ![]() ![]() This is an enjoyable collection of Vivaldian odds and ends. ![]()
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