Marc Pantus & Andrea Friggi
Love, madness and Don Quixote
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Recorded live at the Gertrudiskapel Utrecht, 30 August 2020
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About this concert
Bass-baritone Marc Pantus and harpsichordist Andrea Friggi portray the hopeless romantic Cardenio, a character from Don Quixote. This concert was recorded during the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2020.
Programme
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Bernardo Pasquini
Tastata
1637-1710 -
Giovanni Legrenzi
Cantata: Cessa d’esser amante
1626-1690 -
Georg Friederich Händel
Cantata: Dalla guerra amorosa, HWV 102
1685-1759 -
John Blow
Dr. Blow’s Chacone in fa ut
1648/49-1708 -
Antonio de Ribera
Por unos puertos arriba
fl. early 16th century -
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti
Aria van Cardenio: Bella venere
Aria van Sancho Panza: Mi Ricordo
(from: Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena, 1719)1681/82-1732 -
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
Ovillejo
1823-1894 -
John Eccles
Find me a lonely cave
ca. 1668-1735 -
Henry Purcell
Let the dreadful engines
(from: theatre music for The Comical History of Don Quixote, Z 578)1659-1695
Musicians
- Marc Pantus bass-baritone
- Andrea Friggi harpsichord
About the performers
After training as a visual artist, Marc Pantus studied singing with Udo Reinemann at the Utrecht Conservatorium and with Meinard Kraak at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He has performed with various renowned and diverse ensembles such as Dutch National Opera, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Marc performed the three major song cycles of Franz Schubert with pianist Rudolf Jansen. He is also making a name for himself as a director of vocal music theatre and opera. Earlier this season, for example, he directed the Wishful Singing ensemble for the second time, and directed the Netherlands Bach Society in Bach’s Coffee Cantata.
Andrea Friggi was born in 1979 in Milan where he earned his first doctorate in 2003 in philology (Greek paleography) from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore under the guidance of Carlo Maria Mazzucchi. He also earned a PhD in Byzantine philology from the University of Turin in 2007 under the guidance of Enrico V. Maltese. He is active as a scholar and has published a number of articles. He has studied organ, harpsichord, and continuo. In 2007 he moved to The Netherlands to study with Menno van Delft at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he graduated in 2011. Following his BA graduation he continued his studies in Amsterdam with Bob van Asperen and Richard Egarr and in 2013 obtained a Master’s degree specialising in basso continuo with Thérèse de Goede. In 2010 he founded his own group, Ensemble Odyssee, together with recorder player Anna Stegmann, with whom he regularly performs.