Nicola Porpora: Arias (2009)

For most listeners, if they know his name at all, Nicola Porpora was the composer who took the young, impoverished street musician Franz Joseph Haydn under his wing and created one of the greatest geniuses in all of Western music. For much of his career, Porpora tended to be in direct competition with another figure who happened to be more popular; no sooner had his rival in Venice, Leonardo Vinci, died in 1727 did Europe witness the rise of Johann Adolf Hasse. Traveling to England with his star pupil Farinelli, Porpora ... Read More

For most listeners, if they know his name at all, Nicola Porpora was the composer who took the young, impoverished street musician Franz Joseph Haydn under his wing and created one of the greatest geniuses in all of Western music. For much of his career, Porpora tended to be in direct competition with another figure who happened to be more popular; no sooner had his rival in Venice, Leonardo Vinci, died in 1727 did Europe witness the rise of Johann Adolf Hasse. Traveling to England with his star pupil Farinelli, Porpora locked horns with George Frederick Handel for primacy on the London stage...and lost. It is also his bad luck that, in posterity, Porpora has to share his historic time frame with not only Handel, but with Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach. Although Porpora was at least productive in most musical mediums, it was in opera where he made his strongest mar; very little of Porpora's operatic music has been recorded, even in part. Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin and Il Complesso... Read Less

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