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Emma Kirkby, The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman - Handel: Opera Arias and Overtures, Vol. 1 (1996)

Emma Kirkby, The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman - Handel: Opera Arias and Overtures, Vol. 1 (1996)
  • Title: Handel: Opera Arias and Overtures, Vol. 1
  • Year Of Release: 1996
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 01:14:47
  • Total Size: 399 Mb
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Tracklist:

Almira HWV1
1 Overture 2: Second Overture in G minor[4'26]
2 Act 3, Aria: Vedrai s' a tuo dispetto (Almira)[4'39]
Rodrigo HWV5
3 Act 3, Aria: Perché viva il caro sposa (Esilena) Ah, sommi dei, cui la giustizia arruota[6'06]
Rinaldo HWV7a
4 Act 2, Aria: Vo' far guerra, e vincer voglio (Armida)[5'11]
Alastair Ross (harpsichord)
Silla HWV10
5 Overture Movement 1: Largo – Allegro[4'38]
6 Overture Movement 2: Andante[2'02]
Katharina Arfken (oboe)
Amadigi di Gaula HWV11
7 Act 1, Aria: Ah! spietato! e non ti muove (Melissa) Il crudel m' abbandona, e mi detesta[6'05]
Katharina Arfken (oboe)
8 Act 2, Aria: Desterò dall' empia Dite (Melissa) Mi deride l'amante[5'30]
Robert Farley (trumpet)
Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV17
9 Act 2, Sinfonia and Aria: V' adoro, pupille (Cleopatra)[5'21]
Tamerlano HWV18
10 Overture Movement 1: [Largo] – Allegro[2'50]
11 Overture Movement 2: Adagio – Menuet[1'47]
12 Act 3, Aria: Cor di padre, e cor d' amante (Asteria)[8'24]
Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi HWV19
13 Act 1, Aria: Ombre, piante, urne funeste! (Rodelinda)[5'39]
Rachel Brown (flute)
Scipione HWV20
14 Overture Movement 1: [Largo] – Allegro[3'52]
15 Overture Movement 2: Allegro[2'00]
16 Act 1, Interlude: March[1'11]
17 Act 2, Aria: Scoglio d' immota fronte (Berenice)[5'06]

Performers:
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
The Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman (conductor)

The greater part of Handel's working life as a composer was devoted to writing and performing operas. In many ways this was the genre to which he owed his international renown: performances during his period of study in Venice won him an audience far greater than could be expected in London. Italian opera reached England around 1710, and the staging of Rinaldo in 1711 confirmed Italian as the language of the future for such ventures.
This exciting recording from Emma Kirkby presents nine arias, from nine of the most enduring of Handel's Italian operas, alongside four overtures.




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