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Furore: Handel Opera Arias | Erato 5190382

Furore: Handel Opera Arias

Label: Erato

Cat No: 5190382

Barcode: 5099951903824

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 5th October 2008

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Contents

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Admeto, Re di Tessaglia, HWV22
» Gelosia, spietata Aletto
» Orride larve... Chiudetevi, miei lumi
Amadigi di Gaula, HWV11
» Destero dall'empia dite
Ariodante, HWV33
» Scherza infida
Giulio Cesare, HWV17
» L'angue offeso
Hercules, HWV60
» Cease, ruler of the day, to rise
» There in myrtle shades
» Where shall I fly?
Imeneo, HWV41
» Sorge nell'alma mia
Semele, HWV58
» Hence, Iris, hence away!
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Crude furie degl'orridi abissi (Act 3)
Teseo, HWV9
» Dolce riposo
» Ira, sdegni, e furore…O stringero nel sen
» Moriro, ma vendicata

Artists

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques

Conductor

Christophe Rousset

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Admeto, Re di Tessaglia, HWV22
» Gelosia, spietata Aletto
» Orride larve... Chiudetevi, miei lumi
Amadigi di Gaula, HWV11
» Destero dall'empia dite
Ariodante, HWV33
» Scherza infida
Giulio Cesare, HWV17
» L'angue offeso
Hercules, HWV60
» Cease, ruler of the day, to rise
» There in myrtle shades
» Where shall I fly?
Imeneo, HWV41
» Sorge nell'alma mia
Semele, HWV58
» Hence, Iris, hence away!
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Crude furie degl'orridi abissi (Act 3)
Teseo, HWV9
» Dolce riposo
» Ira, sdegni, e furore…O stringero nel sen
» Moriro, ma vendicata

Artists

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques

Conductor

Christophe Rousset

About

This gripping recital of Handel ‘mad scenes’ is the first release from American mezzo Joyce DiDonato as an exclusive artist for Virgin and EMI Classics.

Over the past five years, DiDonato has enjoyed an uninterrupted series of triumphs as an opera singer and recitalist in Europe and the USA. As the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s magazine Opera News wrote: ‘The buoyant progress of DiDonato’s career... has been one of the happiest opera events of the past decade’.

This recital of Handel arias with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques was recorded at concert performances in April 2008 at Brussels’ Théâtre de la Monnaie. Reporting on the concert, Forum Opéra said: “The mezzo takes this repertoire seriously and she has the means to deliver on her promises … as she demonstrated in dazzling, often intoxicating fashion. The flexibility of her instrument is amazing; and as if her true, vital coloratura and her exemplary legato were not enough in themselves, she brings all her resources to bear on sculpting the music, throwing out brilliant top notes, venturing powerful crescendos and raising the stakes in virtuosity. She both surprises and delights …

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