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Handel in Italy: Cantatas, Arias, Serenata [14CDs] (2017)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 10, 2022
Handel in Italy: Cantatas, Arias, Serenata [14CDs] (2017)

Handel in Italy: Cantatas, Arias, Serenata [14CDs] (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3,55 Gb | Total time: 12 h 26 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 95496 | Recorded: 1988, 1995, 2005-2010, 2014

This set presents an extensive collection of works which George Frideric Handel wrote during his short but astoundingly fruitful stay in Italy. Here he met the great composers of the day, imbuing the rich Italian style, full of drama, cantabile and instrumental brilliance.
Tim Mead, Anna Dennis, Mary Bevan, Hilary Summers, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn - Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022)

Tim Mead, Anna Dennis, Mary Bevan, Hilary Summers, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn - Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:37:17 | 649 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Chandos

Voilà une vingtaine d’années que Christian Curnyn et sa Early Opera Company se penchent sur Amadigi, une des premières œuvres lyriques de Handel. C’est grâce à deux mécènes et à une campagne de financement participatif efficace qu’ils ont réussi à financer ce nouvel enregistrement de studio, réalisé en 2021 avec d’excellents solistes.
Tim Mead, Anna Dennis, Mary Bevan, Hilary Summers - Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tim Mead, Anna Dennis, Mary Bevan, Hilary Summers - Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:36:47 minutes | 2,65 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The countertenor Tim Mead leads an all-star cast in the Early Opera Company’s recording of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula, conducted by Christian Curnyn.
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022)

Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 735 Mb | Total time: 157:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA04062 | Recorded: 2021

Countertenor Tim Mead leads an all-star cast in the Early Opera Company’s recording of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula, conducted by Christian Curnyn. The opera was first performed in London in 1715, in the first season under the reign of George I, in the King’s Theatre on the Haymarket. The complex, twisting plot features lovers Amadigi and Orianna, imprisoned by the sorceress Melissa (who wants Amadigi’s love). Amadigi’s ally Dardano turns against his friend when he realises his love for Orianna (with whom Dardano is in love) and sides with Melissa. Her plans are repeatedly foiled, and true love triumphs at the final curtain! Amadigi is considerd the finest of his early London operas in terms of musical sophistication, theatrical pacing, and a perfectly balanced exploration of the interconnected relationships, motivations, and emotional divergences among just four dissimilar yet equally arresting characters.
Giuliano Carella, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giovanni Paisiello: Le due contesse, Il duello comico (2003)

Giuliano Carella, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giovanni Paisiello: Le due contesse, Il duello comico (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 712 Mb | Total time: 65:45+50:34+57:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 420/1-3 | Recorded: 2002

Here are two comic operas by Paisiello, taped live in July, 2002 at the Martina Franca Festival. In Le due contesse, when the Countess and her suitor Leandro leave for vacation, and a widower–Cavaliere–comes to the door looking for the Countess, the servants Livietta and Prospero tell the Cavaliere that she, Livietta, is the Countess. Cavaliere begins to court her. Guess what? Yup–the real Countess and Leandro come back and Livietta tells the Cavaliere that she’s allowing her servant, really the Countess, to act like a Countess. Prospero tries to convince the real Countess to pay attention to the Cavaliere (who, by now, is confused), and this makes Leandro jealous. Anger/mirth ensues; a duel is suggested but is averted. The real Countess, in fact, falls for the Cavaliere, and somehow Livietta gets together with Leandro.
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (1991)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 714 Mb | Total time: 76:25+73:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45490-2 | Recorded: 1989

Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) is a "magic" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel. It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for London and was composed during his stay at Burlington House in 1715. It is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Charles Burney maintained near the end of the eighteenth century, Amadigi contained "…more invention, variety and good composition, than in any one of the musical dramas of Handel which I have yet carefully and critically examined.” The opera received its first performance in London at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket on 25 May 1715. Handel made prominent use of wind instruments, so the score is unusually colorful, and at points resembles the Water Music, which he composed only a few years later.
Eduardo López Banzo, Al Ayre Español Orquestra - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2008)

Eduardo López Banzo, Al Ayre Español Orquestra - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 866 Mb | Total time: 79:57+78:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambroisie | # AM 133 | Recorded: 2006

Amadigi di Gaula had its premiere in London in 1715. Its libretto, based on a medieval legend and encompassing such effects as a magically appearing sorceress, reflects the then-fashionable English taste for spectacle in operatic production. Musically, however, the opera is of chamber dimensions, involving just five soloists, and takes in some emotionally intimate moments. In this backward-looking piece – it even ends with a brief ballet – Handel doesn't attempt any structural innovations: the arias and duets are cast firmly in the tripartite da capo format. Still, he finds room for the occasional imaginative touch, as when he uses French-overture gestures in a few of the ritornelli to suggest tragic breadth, or has the two voices in a hitherto contrapuntal duet launch the "B" section in straight thirds.
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022)

Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 732 Mb | Total time: 157:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA04062 | Recorded: 2021

Countertenor Tim Mead leads an all-star cast in the Early Opera Company’s recording of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula, conducted by Christian Curnyn. The opera was first performed in London in 1715, in the first season under the reign of George I, in the King’s Theatre on the Haymarket. The complex, twisting plot features lovers Amadigi and Orianna, imprisoned by the sorceress Melissa (who wants Amadigi’s love). Amadigi’s ally Dardano turns against his friend when he realises his love for Orianna (with whom Dardano is in love) and sides with Melissa. Her plans are repeatedly foiled, and true love triumphs at the final curtain! Amadigi is considerd the finest of his early London operas in terms of musical sophistication, theatrical pacing, and a perfectly balanced exploration of the interconnected relationships, motivations, and emotional divergences among just four dissimilar yet equally arresting characters.

Susan Graham - The Art of Susan Graham (2010)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Dec. 2, 2021
Susan Graham - The Art of Susan Graham (2010)

Susan Graham - The Art of Susan Graham (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 Gb | 06:27:00
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics

This six-CD set is sure to be of interest to fans of Susan Graham, the phenomenally successful American mezzo-soprano. The recordings, with the exception of just a few tracks from the 1990s, were made between 2000 and 2005, and they reveal Graham in her prime. Five of the discs had previously been released, but one is made up of selections from a variety of sources, including complete opera recordings. The set demonstrates Graham's versatility, both stylistically in the many types of music she sings and in the emotional spectrum that the songs and arias encompass. .

Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'oro - Handel: Tamerlano (2014)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 16, 2020
Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'oro - Handel: Tamerlano (2014)

Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'oro - Handel: Tamerlano (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,00 Gb | Total time: 62:50+61:49+68:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5373 | Recorded: 2013

Following the recording of several complete Baroque operas: Faramondo, Farnace, Artaserse, Alessandro, all received with unrestrained critical enthusiasm eg Gramophone Editor's Choice, BBC Music Magazine CD of the Month, Handel Recording Prize, Max Emanuel Cencic once again brings together a fine group of singers and orchestra for the rarely recorded Handel opera, 'Tamerlano'. The title role is taken by the exceptional counter-tenor, Xavier Sabata.