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Handel Edition Vol.3 | Warner 2564696208

Handel Edition Vol.3

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Cat No: 2564696208

Barcode: 0825646962082

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Release Date: 9th June 2008

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Taking Milton as his starting point, Handel illustrated in music the contrasts of mood and character between the cheerful and the thoughtful. Then, prompted by his librettist, Charles Jennens, he added compromise in Il Moderato, the moderate man. The sequence of brief numbers is a delight, particularly in a performance as exhilarating as Gardiner’s, with excellent soloists, choir and orchestra. The recording is first rate.” - Penguin Guide ***

[John Eliot Gardiner] has carefully noted the changes Handel himself made in his various revivals; and… has exercised the undoubted right of a director of an opera of this period to choose a version that to him makes good musical and dramatic sense. The orchestral playing is as one expects from this group: precise and polished… full of vitality and musical intelligence, and in particular dramatic force.” - Gramophone, on Tamerlano

"The playing is stylish and polished… this record offers both novelty and charm. You'll find a good many of the Alcina dances are familiar, but you will not often have heard them played so well as they are here.” - Gramophone, on Ballet music from Alcina

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