Handel: La Resurrezione (complete oratorio)
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione (complete oratorio)
Annick Massis, Jennifer Smith / Les Musiciens Du Louvre / Marc Minkowski
[ ARCHIV / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 4 January 2008
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La Resurrezione (HWV 47) is a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652-1728). Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome. It was first performed on the Easter Sunday of 1708 at Rome, with the backing of the Marchese Francesco Ruspoli, Handel's patron at this time. The work details the events between - and during - Good Friday and Easter Sunday, with the action carried forward in recitative, and exploration of character and delineation of mood taking place in the arias. The characters of the liturgical drama that appear in the oratorio are Lucifer, Mary Magdalene, an Angel, St John the Evangelist, and St Mary Cleophas.
