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Anna Prohaska - Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido & Cleopatra (2016) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at June 27, 2018

Anna Prohaska - Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido & Cleopatra (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 69:57 minutes | 716 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens - Dido & Cleopatra - and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from the 1640s to 1740. A firework display of arias, virtuosic and tragic by turns, written by the leading personalities of Baroque music (Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse) and composers still awaiting rediscovery such as Sartorio, Graupner and the Venetian Castrovillari.

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Barnaby Smith - Barnaby Smith Handel (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Oct. 29, 2021

Barnaby Smith - Barnaby Smith Handel (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 63:01 minutes | 1,19 GB
Classical | Label: VOCES8 Records, Official Digital Download

Basel/Scholl-trained countertenor, conductor and Artistic Director Barnaby Smith releases his debut album on 29 October – the crowning glory of his many lockdown projects, and a legacy to leave his new son. Usually to be found directing and singing with VOCES8, conducting orchestras and choirs around the world or teaching, one of Barney’s lockdown silver linings was the space, time and inspiration to step into the studio as a soloist.

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Barnaby Smith & The Illyria Consort - Barnaby Smith: Handel (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 30, 2021

Barnaby Smith & The Illyria Consort - Barnaby Smith: Handel (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:03:01 | 321 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: VOCES8 Records

‘Barnaby Smith: Handel’ features a collection of Handel’s finest solos and duets performed by leading British Baroque soloists Barnaby Smith and Mary Bevan, accompanied by an exceptional line-up of some of the UK’s finest Baroque chamber musicians. Revealing his capacity for invention, re-invention and innovation, this stellar line-up gilds each of Handel’s works with fresh dramaticism and beauty. Barnaby Smith writes: “The music is a selection of Handel’s greatest works, and a playlist of favourite tracks recorded by my vocal idols, Andreas Scholl and David Daniels. This music has filled my car on long journeys, been my solace on daily commutes, and invigorated me after long plane journeys or whilst I am out trying to exercise. Having the chance to sing and record these works with esteemed colleagues and friends has been a dream come true. Drawn to this music for its beauty, depth of character and emotion; I was also struck by its innovation at a time when we are all trying to rebuild as we consider ‘These labours past’ in the new world in which we find ourselves.”

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Regula Mühlemann - Cleopatra - Baroque Arias (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 11, 2017

Regula Mühlemann - Cleopatra - Baroque Arias (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 57:51 minutes | 1.05 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

For her first Sony Classical album of Mozart arias, the young Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann received fantastic reviews all over the world. She was introduced to an audience of millions in 2016 at the ZDF Advent Concert from the Frauenkirche in Dresden, where she conquered the audience along with the second soloist of the evening, Sonya Yoncheva.

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Regula Mühlemann - Cleopatra - Baroque Arias (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 8, 2017

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David Daniels, Roger Norrington, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - George Frideric Handel: Operatic Arias (1998) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 24, 2023

The ever-increasing popularity of Handel and his contemporaries, and their employment of alto castratos, has encouraged the development of countertenors capable of similar vocal feats to the original interpreters of the heroic roles in these works. Among these the distinguished American, David Daniels, who burst on to the scene here a couple of years ago at Glyndebourne in Theodora, is a leading contender. If I would place Scholl in the category of Deller and Esswood, with their luminous, soft-grained tone, Daniels is closer to the more earthy sound of Bowman, his voice — like Bowman's — astonishingly large in volume.

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Handel - Operatic Arias (David Daniels) [1998] Music

Posted by Sowulo at May 4, 2016

The ever-increasing popularity of Handel and his contemporaries, and their employment of alto castratos, has encouraged the development of countertenors capable of similar vocal feats to the original interpreters of the heroic roles in these works. Among these the distinguished American, David Daniels, who burst on to the scene here a couple of years ago at Glyndebourne in Theodora, is a leading contender. If I would place Scholl in the category of Deller and Esswood, with their luminous, soft-grained tone, Daniels is closer to the more earthy sound of Bowman, his voice — like Bowman's — astonishingly large in volume.
– Gramophone [11/1998]

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VA - Handel: Sarabande, Hallelujah and Other Masterpieces (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 9, 2024

VA - Handel: Sarabande, Hallelujah and Other Masterpieces (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 774 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 388 MB
2:47:58 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Most music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own time, are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan".

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Kiri Te Kanawa: Sorceress - A Handel Celebration [1994] Music

Posted by Aregak at Jan. 8, 2018

Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa ONZ DBE AC (born 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand/Māori soprano who has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved sopranos in both the United States and Britain she possesses a warm full lyric soprano voice, singing a wide array of works in multiple languages from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini…

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Sabine Devieilhe - Bach & Handel (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 4, 2021

Sabine Devieilhe - Bach & Handel (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:23:37 | 393 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

“Nous avions presque la sensation d’être clandestins, l’ensemble Pygmalion et moi, en cette semaine de décembre 2020 quand nous passions la grande porte de l’église dans laquelle nous enregistrions. Justificatifs de déplacement et tests n’ont finalement pas fait le poids face à la magie de cette musique. Bach et Haendel sonnent si familiers que l’apaisement opère. Nous voulions par ce programme rendre l’affliction, le repentir et la joie, le désir à travers des pages profanes et sacrées de ces deux compositeurs. De Cléopâtre à la figure du Pécheur dans la cantate BWV 199, les larmes coulent, et l’âme cherche le repos”.

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