50 Best Handel

This 3 CD set offers an impressive assortment of well-known and beloved works by one of the greatest Baroque composer, George Frideric Handel.

This collection features performances by prestigious artists of some of his best loved works including excerpts of Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Sarabande, Water Music, etc.

Contents:
CD 1
1. Rinaldo HWV7a: Lascia ch'io pianga (Act II)
Jane Gilchrist / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Kirk Trevor

2. Ariodante: Scherza, infida
Philippe Jaroussky / Emmanuelle Haïm / Le Concert d`Astrée

3. Arianna in Creta: Ove son... Qui ti sfido - Teseo
Philippe Jaroussky / Emmanuelle Haïm / Le Concert d`Astrée

4. Radamisto: Aria: Ombra caro di mia sposa
Zachary Stains / Dominique Labelle / Carlo Lepore / Patrizia Ciofi / Joyce Di Donato / Maite Beaumont

5. Orlando HWV 31 (1733): Verdi allori
Max Emanuel Cencic / Diego Fasolis / I Barocchisti

6. Arminio: Duri lacci! voi non siete
Vivica Genaux / Geraldine McGreevy / Dominique Labelle / Manuela Custer / Luigi Petroni / Sytse Buwalda / Riccardo Ristori / Il Complesso Barocco

7. Serse: Aria: Ombra mai fu
Gérard Lesne / Il Seminario Musicale

Giulio Cesare
8. Aria: Cara speme, questo core
David Daniels / Roger Montgomery / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Roger Norrington

9. Teseo (1713): Act II, scene 1 - Dolce Riposo
Joyce DiDonato / Christophe Rousset / Les Talents Lyriques

Alcina HWV34
10. Aria: Tornami a vagheggiar (Morgana)
Arleen Augér / Eiddwen Harrhy / Della Jones / Kathleen Kuhlmann / Patrizia Kwella / Maldwyn Davies / Sir John Tomlinson / Opera Stage
11. Aria: Ombre pallide, lo so, mi udite (Alcina)
Arleen Augér / City of London Baroque Sinfonia / Simon Standage / Ian Watson / John Heley
12. Duetto: Son nata a lagrimar
Stephanie Blythe / David Daniels / Emmanuelle Haïm / Martin Isepp / John Nelson / Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
 
CD 2
Harpsichord Suite No.4 in D minor HWV437
1. Sarabande
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields / Alexander Briger

Water Music
Suite No.1 in F major
2. I. Overture:Largo-Allegro
3. II. Adagio e staccato
4. III. [Allegro]
5. VI. Air
6. VIII. Bourée
7. IX. Hornpipe
8. X. [Allegro moderato]
Suite No.2 in D major
9. XII. Alla Hornpipe
10. XIII. Minuet
Suite No.3 in G major
11. XVII - Rigaudon
12. XIX - Menuet
Linde Consort / Hans-Martin Linde

Music for the Royal Fireworks
13. II. Bourrée
14. III. Largo alla siciliana
15. IV. La Réjouissance
Cappella Coloniensis / Hans-Martin Linde

Concerto grosso in B flat Op.3 No.2 (HWV 313)
16. I. Vivace
17. II. Largo
18. III. Allegro
Linde Consort / Hans-Martin Linde

Concerto Grosso in F major Op.3 No.4 (HWV 315)
19. II. Andante
20. III. Allegro
Linde Consort / Hans-Martin Linde

Concerto Grosso in A minor Op.6 No.4
21. I. Larghetto affetuoso
22. II. Allegro
23. III. Largo e piano
24. IV. Allegro
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Nicholas McGegan

Trio Sonata in G major Op.5 No.4
25. II. A tempo ordinario - Allegro non presto
Il Seminario Musicale

26. Solomon HWV67: Sinfonia: Act 3, The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott

Suite No.5 in E major HWV 430
27. Air con Variazioni (Andantino)
Sviatoslav Richter

CD 3
1. Zadok the Priest HWV 258
Choir of King's College, Cambridge / English Chamber Orchestra / Sir Philip Ledger
 
Messiah HWV56
2. Comfort ye my people (tenor)
3. He was despised (alto)
4. Hallelujah (chorus)
Emma Kirkby / Emily Van Evera / Margaret Cable / James Bowman / Joseph Cornwell / David Thomas / Taverner Choir / Taverner Players

Israel in Eygpt
5. The sons of Israel do mourn
Nancy Argenta / Emily Van Evera / Timothy Wilson / Anthony Rolfe Johnson / David Thomas / Jeremy White / Taverner Choir / Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott

Oratorio per la Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesù Cristo, HWV 47
6. Aria: Così la tortorella (S. Giovanni)
Toby Spence / Emmanuelle Haïm / Le Concert d`Astrée

Dixit Dominus HWV 232
7. Dixit Dominus Domino meo (chorus)
8. De torrente in via bibet (sopranos, chorus)
Emmanuelle Haïm / Natalie Dessay / Karine Deshayes / Le Concert d`Astrée / Denis Comtet
 
Cantata IX - Conservate, raddoppiate HWV185
9. Conservate, raddoppiate
10. Nodi voi, che gli stringeste
Juanita Lascarro / Brian Asawa / Le Concert d`Astrée / Emmanuelle Haïm

11. Il Delirio Amoroso: Aria: Per te lasciai la luce
Natalie Dessay / Le Concert d`Astrée / Emmanuelle Haïm