Agitata Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina & Ottavio Dantone

• Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Juditha triumphans, RV 644:
• 1Aria "Agitata infido flatu"03:28
• Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774): La Betulia liberata:
• 2Aria "Prigionier che fa ritorno"07:52
• Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori (1663-1745): Concerto grosso No. 2 in D Major, Op. 2:
• 3I. Grave - Allegro02:01
• 4II. Largo01:15
• 5III. Allegro00:54
• Nicola Porpora (ca. 1686-1768): Mottetto "In procella sine stella":
• 6I. In procella sine stella05:13
• 7II. Jam cerno in meo timore00:55
• 8III. In tenebris horroris07:45
• 9IV. Alleluia01:29
• Antonio Caldara (ca. 1670-1736): Sinfonia dalla Passione di Gesù Cristo Signor nostro:
• 10I. Grave01:22
• 11II. Andante02:28
• Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682):
• 12Et egressus est08:49
• Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709): Cantata "Lumi dolente lumi":
• 13I. Lumi dolente lumi01:24
• 14II. Chi pianger non sa04:10
• 15III. Umanità crudele00:59
• 16IV. Saette e fulmini che tardan più?02:31
• Giovanni Battista Brevi (ca. 1650-1725): O spiritus angelici:
• 17I. O spiritus angelici01:28
• 18II. Potest solum mea tormenta03:26
• 19III. O panis angelorum01:32
• 20IV. O liquor quam suavis00:56
• 21V. O fons, sed amoris01:26
• 22Alleluia01:49
• Total Runtime01:03:12

Info for Agitata

Delphine Galou is renowned and admired for her musicality and her appealing timbre.

She has taken part in many productions of Baroque music and recordings of operas (notably by Vivaldi), but this is her first recital.

It is a programme of sacred music, motets, cantatas and excerpts from oratorios, which in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were influenced by the increasingly fashionable genre of opera.

From the famous ‘Agitata infido flatu’ from Vivaldi’s oratorio Juditha triumphans, here counterpointed by an aria from another setting of the story of Judith composed by Jommelli, to Stradella’s Lamentations and Porpora’s magnificent motet ‘In procella sine stella’, Delphine Galou covers a wide range of spiritual emotions.

She is accompanied by the excellent Accademia Bizantina under its director and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone. A concerto by Gregori and a sinfonia by Caldara complete this release, which includes several world premiere recordings.

Delphine Galou, alto
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone, conductor

Delphine Galou
was born in Paris. Additionally to her studies of philosophy at the Sorbonne, she also studied the piano and singing. In 2004, she was selected "Discovery of the Year" by the French Association for the Promotion of Young Artists ADAMI. ​

She started her career as a member of the ensemble of the "Jeunes Voix du Rhin". She then decided to specialise in the baroque repertoire, collaborating with ensembles such as Balthasar Neumann Ensemble (Thomas Hengelbrock), I Barocchisti (Diego Fasolis), Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks), the Venice Baroque Orchestra (Andrea Marcon), Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis), Les Siècles (François-Xavier Roth), Les Arts Florissants (Jonathan Cohen), Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Le Concert d’Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), Les Ambassadeurs (Alexis Kossenko) and Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset). ​

She has performed at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Angers Nantes Opéra, Opéra de Montpellier, Royal Opera House London, Theater St Gallen, Theater Basel, Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, Schwetzingen Festival, Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien and the Maggio Musicale in Firenze. ​

As a concert soloist, she is a regular guest of the Beaune Baroque Festival where she was acclaimed in Rinaldo and Alessandro by Handel, Semiramide by Porpora, Juditha triumphans and Orlando furioso by Vivaldi and, in 2013, in L’incoronazione di Dario (Vivaldi again). This season was highlighted by her US debut at the Lincoln Center in New York in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm. She has also performed meanwhile with Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Les Ambassadeurs and toured a recital program with Les Talens Lyriques (around the bliblical theme of Juditha triumphans). ​

During the 2015/16 season she sang Stabat Mater by Pergolesi with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Milano, Mass in b minor by Bach with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai di Torino, The Messiah by Handel in Basilea with La Cetra di Marconi, Belshazzar, Alcina and Johannes Passion with the Accademia Bizantina and Matthäuspassion with the Holland Baroque Society. ​

Among her recent engagements are productions of Orlando (Medoro) at Opernhaus in Zurich, L’Orfeo (La Musica) at Opéra de Lausanne. She received great acclaims in Belshazzar in Salzburg, Beaune and Bruges with the Accademia Bizantina, Juditha Triumphans in Bruxelles and London with the Venice Ba- roque Orchestra, as well as in concert with the Orchestra Haydn in Bolzano. ​

Her projects include L’incoronazione di Dario at Teatro Regio in Torino, Rinaldo (Goffredo) with the Kam- merorchester Basel, Giulio Cesare (Cornelia) during a tour with the Accademia Bizantina and L’Incorona- zione di Poppea (Ottone) in Zürich. ​

Her numerous discography includes the Saint John Passion by Bach with Marc Minkowski (Naïve), Vivaldi’s Teuzzone under Jordi Savall (Naïve) and Vivaldi’s Orlando 1714 under Federico Maria Sardelli (Naïve), Vivaldi’s L’incoronazione di Dario and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle under Ottavio Dantone (Naïve), Steffani’s Niobe with Thomas Hengelbrock (DVD Opus Arte), Caldara’s La Concordia dei’ Pianeti under Andrea Marcon (Deutsche Grammophon) and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Leonard Slatkin.

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