Giovanni Alberto Ristori
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Giovanni Alberto Ristori (born Bologna? 1692 - died Dresden 7 February 1753) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. He was the son of Tommaso Ristori, the leader of an opera troupe belonging to the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony August II the Strong (based in Dresden). August II 'loaned' his opera troupe to the Russian Empress Anna for the celebration of her coronation in Moscow.
Calandro, his opera in three acts to a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini was both the first opera buffa written in Germany and also the first Italian opera performed in Russia. It was given under his, and his father’s direction, with thirteen actors and nine singers including Ludovica Seyfried, Margherita Ermini and Rosalia Fantasia, in 1731 in Moscow.
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La Voce Virtuosa: Lute and the Saxon Vocal Tradition - PGM 106
- "Canto Divoti Affetti" by Giovanni Alberto Ristori
- "Io vorrei saper, d'amore" by Johann David Heinichen
Cantata: "La bella fiammo o Tirsi" by Johann David Heinichen
- "Lascia che nei suo viso" by Lotti
- "Felice io me n'andro di Giove" by Fux
- Allemande in F minor by Weiss
Tamara Crout Matthews (soprano), Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano), Jorgan-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marmer (violins), Loretta O'Sullivan (cello), Timothy Burris (lute & theorbo), Eric Milnes (organ & harpsichord)
Includes the world-premiere recording of Ristori's "Canto Divotti Affeti" which was presumed until early 1995 to have been destroyed during the WW II bombings of Dresden.
