[ Brilliant Classics / 14 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 4 August 2017
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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.
The set's focus is on the secular Cantatas, all of them mini-operas in scale and substance, dealing with human emotions of love, jealousy, hope and despair. The influence of Handel's stay in Italy can be found in many of his great operas and oratorios he later wrote in London.
Apart from the Cantatas the set includes a selection of Italian Duets, and the Serenata Aci, Galatea & Polifemo. · Excellent performances in Historically Informed Performance Practice, by Contrasto Armonico, Musica Perduta and specialist vocal soloists.
Artists
Stefanie True (soprano), Stefanie True (Fillide), Klaartje van Veldhoven (Aminta), Klaartje van Veldhoven (soprano), Valentina Varriale (soprano), Tom Sol (Apollo), Nicola Wemyss (Dafne), Anna Korondi (soprano), Rezso Pertorini (cello), Judit Péteri (harpsichord), Mária Zádori (soprano), Ralf Popken (counter-tenor), Veronika Winter (soprano), Jochen Kowalski (alto), Stefanie True (Aci), Luciana Mancini (Galatea), Mitchell Sandler (Polifemo)
Contrasto Armonico, Musica ad Rhenum, Recondita Armonia Ensemble, Capella Savaria, Concerto Armonico, Das kleine Konzert, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, Marco Vitale
Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99
Ditemi, o piante, HWV 107
Care selve, aure grate, HWV 88
Allor ch'io dissi: Addio, HWV 80
Un' alma inamorata HWV 173
O lucenti, o sereni occhi HWV 144
Aure soavi e liete HWV 84
Tra le fiamme, HWV170
Aminta e Fillide (Arresta il passo) HWV 83
Clori, mia bella Cloria HWV 92
Sans y penser, HWV 155
Clori, vezzosa Clori HWV 95
Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134
Lungi n'andò Fileno HWV 128
Mira Lilla gentile
La caduta di Icaro
Mira lilla gentile
Tra le fiamme, HWV 170
The Alchymist HWV 43: Incidental music
Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122
Ah, che pur tropo e vero, HWV 77
Sonata in D minor for recorder and continuo, HWV367a, Op. 1 No. 9a 'Fitzwilliam III'
Dolc'e pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV109a
Oboe Sonata in f major, HWV 363a
Care selve, aure grate, HWV 88
Dolce mio ben, HWV 108
Il Gelsomino, HWV 164a
Partì, l'idolo mio, HWV 147
Stelle, perfide stelle, HWV 168
Notte placida e cheta, HWV 142
Ero e Leandro, HWV 150
Amarilli vezzosa, HWV 82, "Il duello amoroso"
Crudel tiranno Amor, HWV97
Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110
Armida abbandonata, HWV 105
Figlio d'alte speranze, HWV 113
Splenda l'alba in oriente, cantata, HWV 166
Figli del mesto cor, HWV 112
Mi palpita il cor (HWV 132c)
Vedendo amor, HWV 175
Galatea e Polifemo
Lute Sonata in B Major
Quel fior che all'alba ride, HWV 192
Prelude in D minor
Va, speme infida, HWV 199
Prelude
Amor gioje mi porge, HWV 180
Entreé
Caro autor di mia doglia, HWV182b
Toccata
Ahi, nelle sorti umane, HWV 179
Prelude
Handel: No, di voi non vuò fidarmi, HWV189