A.

Vivaldi
Agitata da due venti (4 March 1678 — 28 July 1741)

Griselda (1735)

Vivaldi’s Griselda, one of more than twenty operas,

is based on a story retold in Boccaccio’s Il
decamerone about the testing of Griselda’s patience
and virtue by her royal husband through a series of
cruel trials. The sense of drama that permeates many
of Vivaldi’s more programmatic works, such as the
Four Seasons, is very naturally carried over into his
operas, especially with the use of so-called ‘simile’
arias, in which an emotional state is compared with
various natural phenomena. Several very fine
examples can be heard in Griselda, including
Costanza’s extraordinary ‘Agitata da due venti’ in
Act Two; the text compares love and duty with two
contrary winds, and the setting is correspondingly
wild, with fierce fioriture and wide leaps.

Agitata da due venti,

freme l'onda in mar turbato
e 'l nocchiero spaventato
già s'aspetta a naufragar.
Dal dovere da l'amore
combattuto questo core
non resiste e par che ceda
e incominci a desperar.

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 Agitata da due venti (Griselda)
A.Vivaldi (1648-1741)
rev. Paolo De Matthaeis

Allegro

Costanza      

               
Violino I           
             
         

Violino II

                        

Viola

Violoncello
                                         

                                         
Contrabbasso


          
Allegro
 
               
Clavicembalo


                          


5

   

          f        p     f
 
p

     
     

          f        p     f      
p
    
 
p
 f
  
p
 
 
f
 
 
p     f
   p
    f
       
p     f
   p
    f
       

  
p
   f
      
p

f
     

   



   


   
 
    
  
    
  

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    

  p       f             
 
           
           
      
 
             
p
            
f
  

      
                    
p f


           
                
p f

  
           
                
p f

   

     
  
      
                     

       
  
                    


    
12

    
A - gi - ta - ta
   
        
p
       
    
   
p
   
     
                
   
p


           
    
 
     

p


                
    
 
     

p

 
    
p
         
             


 
                   
  

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         

        
 
da du - e ven - ti fre - me l'on - da_in mar tur - ba - to e'l noc - chie - ro

         
                   
 
      
           
     

                    

                  
   
                                             


         
                
         

                                              

      
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      
      
spa - ven - ta - to, spa - ven - ta - to già s'a - spet - ta_a Nau - fra - gar

   f 
        
p
        
f 
     
p
  
      
    
                     
p

f

   
                 
f     
p

   
                  
f     
p

f 
        
p
                             
 

                

   
    

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        
          
      
         
f
 
pp
 
  
       
 

   
       
f
    
 
pp
        
        
pp    
  f      
                         

    pp   
                        
f

    pp   
                        
f

 

               

pp

          

f
             



      
                          


                        
30

 

                                 

                            
    
                             
 

                                 

                                 


          
             
        

                                  

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           
     
a nau - fra - gar, a nau - fra -

            
f
 
     
    
f 
         
  
     
    f         
  
           

                
f
             
 
                               
f

 

    
             

f

 
   


   
    
                  
    


38

        
gar. A - gi -

          
        
p
   

         
p
      
  
 
                            
p

                      

p

                      

p

    
                      
p

         



               
   
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      

    


   
 
ta - ta da du - e ven - ti fre - me l'on - da_in mar tur - ba - to e'l noc -

          
            
   
    
                   
     
            
               
       
             
         
             

    
            
   



 
         


    
         
           

 
      
46

    
       
chi - ro spa - ven - ta - to, spa - ven - ta - to già s'a - spet - ta a nau fra -

  
             
                 
      
             
               
                           

                           

          
                 

       
                                      
 

                      

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50

                                      
gar

              
               

                           
    
               
               

                        
    
                            


                
                                

                                

      
                                       
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   

                                 
          
                            
                 
                           
 

                 
               
                 
                

              

                       
         
 

    
  
               
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       

58

            

         
                 

 

                      

   
            
      

      
                
   
              
      

                   

   
                 

                      
    
  

          

62

        
  
a nau - fra - gar

           
  
                   

  
                                  
   
           
                
  
                          

                            
  

                
                                 

   

 
                
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                
         
66

   

                  
                   
      
                                
                
             

                     
           
                              
 

                                      
             

                                  

  
          
70

   
 
a nau - fra - gar a nau - fra - gar a

                                   
  

            

  
               
         

               
           

              
        


                           
                 

                  
 
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74

      

nau - fra - gar.

              

         
            
  
        

                       

                  
   
                                           


        
      


           

                  


78

    

     
   
                          
  

   
                          
                        

                     
   

               
   
       

 
 
   
   
                       

 
     
            
 
     

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82

         
   

Dal do - ve - re_e da l'a - mo - re com - ba - tu - to que - sto
    p
  
   
f

   
 
  p
    
f

    
 
 p     
                        f 
    
f  
     
p
             
 p                        f      
            
 

   p     
f
 
      



 
  

               
 

 
86
                        
              

co - re non re - si - ste e par che ce - da e_in co - min - ci a de - spe - rar

                                
   
p

 p
                                  

                                     
p


      
p
        
          
         
  
           

 
                
p
          


        
  

            


 
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   
                   
a des - pe - rar, a de - spe - rar.
    
                               
       
              
          
 
                             

     
                    
 
 
                           

    
  
                             




                         
 
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