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Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)
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Johann
Adolph Hasse Gesellschaft München e.V.
Operatic Twins &
Musical Rivals: Two Settings of Artaserse (1730) by Robert Torre.
Discourses in Music vol. 6 no. 1 (2006).
NewOlde.com - Jan Dismas Zelenka
Dresden in the
time of Zelenka & Hasse by Brian Robins
Performances
Hasse. Artaserse (Venice 1730). Christopher Suckling,
Ensemble Serse. Artaserse: Julian Forbes, tenor; Mandane: Sarah
Moule, soprano; Artabano: Richard Scott, countertenor; Arbace:
Calvin Wells, sopranist; Semira: Katherine Cooper, contralto;
Megabise: Melanie Sanders, mezzo-soprano. St. Giles Church,
London, Saturday, 7 November 2009, 5 pm.
Details.
Recent Recordings
| Hasse. Sanctus Petrus et Sancta
Maria Magdalena. Oehms Classics OC 950 (1 CD, August
2010). Michael Hofstetter, Chor & Orchester der
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. S. Maria Magdalena:
Kirsten Blaise, soprano; Maria Iacobi: Hiedrun Kordes,
soprano; Maria Salome: Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; S.
Petrus: Terry Wey, countertenor; Joseph d'Arimatea:
Jacek Laszczkowski, sopranist.
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| Hasse. Te Deum / Sacred Works.
cpo (1 CD, August 2010). Matthias Jung, Batzdorfer
Hofkapelle, Sächsisches Vocalensemble. Barbara Christina
Steude, soprano; Susanne Langner, contralto; Georg
Poplutz, tenor; Matthias Lutze, bass.
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Porpora, Vinci, Leo, Hasse, Pergolesi. Lava - Opera Arias from 18th Century Naples. dhm
88697541212 (1 CD, August 2009).
Details /
CD booklet (pdf) /
Video of
"Manca solletica" from Leo's Demetrio. Claudio Osele, Le Musiche Nove. Simone Kermes,
soprano.
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Reissued on dhm 88697661232 (March, 2010)
without the booklet:
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| Johann Adolf Hasse. Cantatas vol. 1. Brilliant
Classics 93636 (1 CD, February 2009). Pietro Busca, Accademia
del Ricercare. Lia Serafina, soprano; Gabriella Martellacci, contralto.
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| Le Grazie Veneziane - Music from the
Ospedali. Porpora, De profundis; Hasse, Laudate
pueri; Galuppi, Dixit Dominus. Carus 83.264 (1 CD,
August 2008).
Details. Peter Kopp, Dresdner Instrumental-Concert, Vocal
Concert Dresden. Emanuela Galli, soprano; Maria Grazia Schaivo,
soprano; Josè Maria Lo Monaco, mezzo-soprano.
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| Carestini - The Story of a Castrato.
Naïve 00946 3 95242 2 8 (1 CD, October 2007).
Details. Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor. Emmanuel Haïm, Le
Concert d'Astrée. Includes two arias from Hasse's La
clemenza di Tito.
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JP |
 Johann
Adolph Hasse. Opera for Lute: Baroque opera arias transcribed
for lute. Oehms Classics (1 CD, September 2007). Axel
Wolf, lute. Arias and sinfonias from Ezio, Leucippo, Solimano,
Ciro riconosciuto, Artemisia, and Eroe cinese.
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| Stradella, Fux, Handel, Gluck, Hasse, Mozart,
Pleyel, Rossini. Arno Raunig singt Kastratenarien.
Cavalli CCD 333 (1 CD, February 2007). Arno Raunig, sopranist. Concilium Musicum Wien.
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DE |
 Johann
Adolph Hasse. Serpentes Ignei in Deserto (Venice 1735?).
Ambronay AMY005 (1 CD, October 2006).
NewOlde.com 2006 Best 18th Century Oratorio CD Award. Jérôme
Correas, Les Paladins. Angelus: Valérie Gabail, soprano; Josue:
Isabelle Poulenard, soprano; Eliab / Nathanael: Stéphanie
d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano; Moyses: Annette Markert, contralto;
Eleazar: Robert Expert, countertenor. This is an outstanding
performance and recording, probably the finest recording to date
of a major vocal work by Hasse. While composed for women at the
Incurabili, many of the arias are as challenging as the arias
Hasse wrote for great castrati. Highly recommended! (The
recording by
Ensemble Inégal of Zelenka's 1730 oratorio on a similar
libretto, Il serpente di bronzo, apparently still is not
available outside of the Czech Republic.)
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JP |
| Hasse and Handel Opera Arias. Virgin
Classics (1 CD, September 2006). Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano.
Her "Arias for Farinelli" CD from 2002 with René Jacobs and the
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is one of the finest opera aria
recital disks.
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JP |
 Hasse,
Haydn, Mozart, Karl Leopold Röllig (1754-1804). L'Armonica:
Musik mit Glasharmonika. Cavalli Records CCD 448 (1 CD,
February 2006). Paul Angerer, Concilium musicum Wien. Ursula
Fiedler, soprano. Sascha Reckert & Philippe Marguerre, glass
harmonica.
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| Faustina Bordoni - Faces of a Prima Donna.
Handel, Arias from Riccardo Primo & Admeto; Hasse,
Arias from Cleofide. CBC Records MVCD 1172 (1 CD, October
2005). Kimberly Barber, mezzo-soprano; Monica Huggett, Arion
Baroque Orchestra.
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 Hasse.
Sonatas & Trio Sonatas. Chandos Chaconne 0711 (1 CD 2004).
Epoca Barocca.
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| Hasse. Requiem / Miserere. Carus 83.175
(1 CD, June 2005).
Details. Hans-Christoph Rademann, Dresdner Kammerchor &
Barockorchester. Simona Houda-Šaturová, soprano; Britta Schwarz,
contralto; Eric Stokloßa, tenor; Gotthold Schwarz, bass.
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| Cleopatra. Arias from C.H. Graun's
Cleopatra e Cesare, Hasse's Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra,
Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto & Mattheson's
Cleopatra. CBC Records SMD 5233 (1 CD, October 2004). Isabel
Bayrakdarian, soprano. Jean Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
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 Johann
Adolph Hasse & Jan Dismas Zelenka. Dresdner Motetten &
Konzerte. KammerTon KT 22013 (1 CD 2003). Daniel Deuter,
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Salomé Haller, soprano. Hasse: virtuoso
motets for soprano written for the Incurabili in the mid to late
1730s: "Inter undas", "Fuge insidias"; Zelenka: Concerto in G
major, Alma Redemptoris Mater.
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Hasse.
Il Cantico de' Tre Fanciulli. Bongiovanni 2283 (2 CDs
2001). Arnold Bosman, Ensemble Musica Rara & Ensemble Ars
Cantica. Silvia Bossa, Stefania Donzeli, Aramayo Sardivari, Alan
Ewing, Gianluca Belfiori Doro. The revised version.
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 Hasse.
Flötenkonzerte. Christophorus CHR 77228 (1 CD 2000).
Laurence Dean & Christina Ahrens-Dean, transversi. Hannoversche
Hofkapelle.
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JP
 Reissued
in 2008.
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 Hasse.
Zenobia. (Excerpts). Pro Musica Camerata (Poland) PMC
023. (1 CD 1997).
Details. Władysław Kłosiewicz, Musicae Antiquae Collegium
Varsoviense. Olga Pasiecznik, Bernard Pyrzyk, Marta Boberska,
Dorota Lachowicz, Leszek Świdzinski, & Jacek Laszczkowski.
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Arias for Farinelli. Harmonia Mundi HMC
901778 (1 CD 2002).
NewOlde.com Review. Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano, René
Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Arias by Hasse, Porpora,
Giacomelli & Riccardo Broschi. One aria, Giacomelli's "Quell'usignolo
che innamorato", was performed with the ornaments and cadenzas
written out by Farinelli, and the others with ornamentation and
cadenzas after Hiller (1778) (six ornamented arias) and Hiller
(1780) (instructions for ornamented musical singing). There is
also a brief concerto by Galuppi. The booklet includes
interesting, original articles by Reinhard Strohm and René
Jacobs.
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Reissued in 2008.
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 Hasse.
I Pellegrini al Sepolcro di Nostro Signore. Virgin 7243
5453292 4 (1 CD 1998). Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale.
Agapito: Rachel Elliott, soprano; Eugenio: Valérie Gabail,
soprano; Teotimo: Gérard Lesne, countertenor; Albino: Michael
Chance, countertenor; Guida: Peter Harvey, bass.
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 Hasse.
La Contadina (Naples 1728). Michele Masciti, Concerto Op. 7
No. 3. Harmonia Mundi HMC 905244 (1 CD 1999). Attilio
Cremonesi, Ensemble Arcadia. Scintilla: Graciela Oddone,
soprano; Don Tabarano: Lorenzo Regazzo, bass-baritone.
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| Domenico & Alessandro Scarlatti & Hasse.
Salve Regina / Cantatas & Motets. Hyperion CDA 66875 (1 CD
1996). Robert King, The King's Consort. Includes a different
Salve Regina by Hasse than on the Opus 111 set, performed by
James Bowman, countertenor.
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 Hasse.
Mottetti virtuosi. Opus 111 OPS 30-100 (1 CD 1994).
Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique. Monique Zanetti,
soprano; Jennifer Lane, contralto. A fine recording that
includes two motets written for the Incurabili, "Gentus barbarae"
(alto) & "Alta nubes illustrata" (soprano), and two of Hasse's
thirteen settings of Salve Regina. The Salve Regina for soprano
is the best I've heard from the mid-18th Century.
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JPReissued on Opus 111 Invitation OPS10007.
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Reissued without texts as part of a 2-CD set with Hasse's
Requiem & Miserere performed by Paul Dombrecht & Il Fondamento
(below). Naïve Tête à Tête OP20004.
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 Hasse.
Requiem & Miserere. Opus 111 OPS 30-80 (1 CD 1993). Paul
Dombrecht, Il Fondamento. Greta de Reyghere, soprano; Susanna
Moncayo von Hase, contralto; Ian Honeyman, tenor; Dirk Snellings,
bass.
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JPReissued in 2008.
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 Hasse.
Piramo & Tisbe. Capriccio 60 043-2 (2 CDs 1994).
Michael Scheider, La Stagione. Piramo: Barbara Schlick, soprano;
Tisbe: Ann Monoyios, soprano; Padre: Wilfried Jochens, tenor.
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 Hasse.
La Conversione di Sant'Agostino. Capriccio 10 389/90 (2
CDs 1993). Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Monica:
Mechthild Georg, mezzo-soprano; Alipio: Axel Köhler,
countertenor; Agostino: Ralph Popken, countertenor; Simpliciano:
Robert Wörle, tenor; Navigio: Gotthold Schwarz, bass. Libretto
by the Dresden Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis.
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| Hasse. Cantatas L'Armonica & La Gelosia /
Symphonie a Quatre. Adès (1 CD 1989). Daniel Cuiller,
Ensemble Stradivaria. Véronique Dietschy, soprano; Dennis James,
glass armonica.
Interview with Dennis James.
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CA Reissued on Accord (1995).
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JP
Reissued on Accord Baroque (2006).
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 Hasse.
Cleofide (Dresden 1731). Capriccio C 27 193/96 (4 LPs) &
10 193/96 (4 CDs 1987). William Christie, Cappella Coloniensis.
Cleofide: Emma Kirkby, soprano; Poro: Derek Lee Ragin,
countertenor; Erissena: Agnès Mellon, soprano; Alessandro:
Dominique Visse, countertenor; Gandarte: Randall K. Wong,
sopranist; Timagene: David Cordier, countertenor.
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Books
Roland Dieter Schmidt-Hensel. "La musica è
del Signor Hasse detto il Sassone..." -- Johann Adolf Hasse:
'Opere serie' der Jahre 1730 bis 1745. V&R Unipress,
December 2009. "Between 1721 and 1771 Hasse composed over 50
opere serie; he also revised several of these operas more or
less thoroughly for later performances. This volume focuses on
25 operas from the years 1730 to 1745. The first part
recapitulates the life of the composer, in particular with a
view to his career as an opera composer. It also sheds light on
the source material and various facets of a widespread
phenomenon in the 18th century of pre-existing material being
used to revise operas or compose new ones. The author also
examines the alterations made to Hasse's operas for later
performances without his involvement. The second part of the
book provides a comprehensive documentation of the works, the
source material and verifiable performances in the 18th
century."
Vol. I.
Details. 475 pages.
DE
Vol. II.
Details. 775 pages.
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| Raffelle Mellace. Johann Adolph Hasse.
520 pages. L'Epos (Palermo) 2004. ISBN: 8883022483.
Details. |
| Raffelle Mellace. L'Autunno del Metastasio:
Gli Ultima Drammi per Musica di Johann Adolph Hasse.
Forthcoming, Olschki Editore. I hope that English translations
of Mellace's books eventually will be published. |
| Michael Koch. Die Oratorien Johann Adolph
Hasse: Überlieferung und Struktur. 280 pages. Centaurus
1989.
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 Daniel
Heartz. Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style,
1720-1780. 1078 pages. Norton, 2003.
Review.
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP |
 Reinhard
Strohm. Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the
Eighteenth Century.
Details. Yale University Press, 1997. 326 pages. The
author's second collection of his articles about 18th Century
serious opera. Contents include: Rulers and states in Hasse's
drammi per musica.
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UK |
www.newolde.com/hasse.htm
|
|
Johann
Adolph Hasse. Opera for Lute: Baroque opera arias transcribed
for lute. Oehms Classics (1 CD, September 2007). Axel
Wolf, lute. Arias and sinfonias from Ezio, Leucippo, Solimano,
Ciro riconosciuto, Artemisia, and Eroe cinese.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Johann
Adolph Hasse. Serpentes Ignei in Deserto (Venice 1735?).
Ambronay AMY005 (1 CD, October 2006).
NewOlde.com 2006 Best 18th Century Oratorio CD Award. Jérôme
Correas, Les Paladins. Angelus: Valérie Gabail, soprano; Josue:
Isabelle Poulenard, soprano; Eliab / Nathanael: Stéphanie
d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano; Moyses: Annette Markert, contralto;
Eleazar: Robert Expert, countertenor. This is an outstanding
performance and recording, probably the finest recording to date
of a major vocal work by Hasse. While composed for women at the
Incurabili, many of the arias are as challenging as the arias
Hasse wrote for great castrati. Highly recommended! (The
recording by
Ensemble Inégal of Zelenka's 1730 oratorio on a similar
libretto, Il serpente di bronzo, apparently still is not
available outside of the Czech Republic.)
UK |
DE |
FR |
JP
Hasse,
Haydn, Mozart, Karl Leopold Röllig (1754-1804). L'Armonica:
Musik mit Glasharmonika. Cavalli Records CCD 448 (1 CD,
February 2006). Paul Angerer, Concilium musicum Wien. Ursula
Fiedler, soprano. Sascha Reckert & Philippe Marguerre, glass
harmonica.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
Sonatas & Trio Sonatas. Chandos Chaconne 0711 (1 CD 2004).
Epoca Barocca.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP
Johann
Adolph Hasse & Jan Dismas Zelenka. Dresdner Motetten &
Konzerte. KammerTon KT 22013 (1 CD 2003). Daniel Deuter,
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Salomé Haller, soprano. Hasse: virtuoso
motets for soprano written for the Incurabili in the mid to late
1730s: "Inter undas", "Fuge insidias"; Zelenka: Concerto in G
major, Alma Redemptoris Mater.
UK |
DE |
FR
Hasse.
Flötenkonzerte. Christophorus CHR 77228 (1 CD 2000).
Laurence Dean & Christina Ahrens-Dean, transversi. Hannoversche
Hofkapelle.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
Zenobia. (Excerpts). Pro Musica Camerata (Poland) PMC
023. (1 CD 1997).
Details. Władysław Kłosiewicz, Musicae Antiquae Collegium
Varsoviense. Olga Pasiecznik, Bernard Pyrzyk, Marta Boberska,
Dorota Lachowicz, Leszek Świdzinski, & Jacek Laszczkowski.
DE
Hasse.
I Pellegrini al Sepolcro di Nostro Signore. Virgin 7243
5453292 4 (1 CD 1998). Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale.
Agapito: Rachel Elliott, soprano; Eugenio: Valérie Gabail,
soprano; Teotimo: Gérard Lesne, countertenor; Albino: Michael
Chance, countertenor; Guida: Peter Harvey, bass.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
La Contadina (Naples 1728). Michele Masciti, Concerto Op. 7
No. 3. Harmonia Mundi HMC 905244 (1 CD 1999). Attilio
Cremonesi, Ensemble Arcadia. Scintilla: Graciela Oddone,
soprano; Don Tabarano: Lorenzo Regazzo, bass-baritone.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
Mottetti virtuosi. Opus 111 OPS 30-100 (1 CD 1994).
Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique. Monique Zanetti,
soprano; Jennifer Lane, contralto. A fine recording that
includes two motets written for the Incurabili, "Gentus barbarae"
(alto) & "Alta nubes illustrata" (soprano), and two of Hasse's
thirteen settings of Salve Regina. The Salve Regina for soprano
is the best I've heard from the mid-18th Century.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
Requiem & Miserere. Opus 111 OPS 30-80 (1 CD 1993). Paul
Dombrecht, Il Fondamento. Greta de Reyghere, soprano; Susanna
Moncayo von Hase, contralto; Ian Honeyman, tenor; Dirk Snellings,
bass.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
Piramo & Tisbe. Capriccio 60 043-2 (2 CDs 1994).
Michael Scheider, La Stagione. Piramo: Barbara Schlick, soprano;
Tisbe: Ann Monoyios, soprano; Padre: Wilfried Jochens, tenor.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Hasse.
La Conversione di Sant'Agostino. Capriccio 10 389/90 (2
CDs 1993). Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Monica:
Mechthild Georg, mezzo-soprano; Alipio: Axel Köhler,
countertenor; Agostino: Ralph Popken, countertenor; Simpliciano:
Robert Wörle, tenor; Navigio: Gotthold Schwarz, bass. Libretto
by the Dresden Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP
Daniel
Heartz. Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style,
1720-1780. 1078 pages. Norton, 2003.
Review.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP
Reinhard
Strohm. Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the
Eighteenth Century.
Details. Yale University Press, 1997. 326 pages. The
author's second collection of his articles about 18th Century
serious opera. Contents include: Rulers and states in Hasse's
drammi per musica.
US |
UK