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Handel’s Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London | Chandos - Chaconne CHSA0403

Handel’s Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London

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Label: Chandos - Chaconne

Cat No: CHSA0403

Barcode: 0095115040324

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd March 2018

Contents

Works

Arne, Thomas

Alfred
» Gracious Heav'n, O hear me!
Artaxerxes
» Why is death for ever late

Ciampi, Vincenzo

Adriano in Siria
» O Dio! Mancar mi sento
Il trionfo di Camilla
» La per l'ombrosa sponda

Handel, George Frideric

Jephtha, HWV70
» Farewell, ye limpid springs
» Ye sacred priests
Solomon, HWV67
» Will the sun forget to streak
Susanna, HWV66
» Crystal streams in murmurs flowings
The Choice of Hercules, HWV69
» There the brisk, sparkling nectar drain
Theodora, HWV68
» But why art thou disquieted
» Oh! that I on wings could rise
» O thou bright sun
» Sinfonia (Act 2)
» Symphony of soft Musick
» With Darkness deep

Hayes, Philip

Telemachus
» Soon arrives thy fatal hour

Smith, John Christopher

Paradise Lost
» It comes! it comes! it must be death!
» Oh! do not, Adam, exercise on me thy hatred
Rebecca
» But see, the night with silent pace steals on
» O balmy Sleep!

Artists

Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

Laurence Cummings

Works

Arne, Thomas

Alfred
» Gracious Heav'n, O hear me!
Artaxerxes
» Why is death for ever late

Ciampi, Vincenzo

Adriano in Siria
» O Dio! Mancar mi sento
Il trionfo di Camilla
» La per l'ombrosa sponda

Handel, George Frideric

Jephtha, HWV70
» Farewell, ye limpid springs
» Ye sacred priests
Solomon, HWV67
» Will the sun forget to streak
Susanna, HWV66
» Crystal streams in murmurs flowings
The Choice of Hercules, HWV69
» There the brisk, sparkling nectar drain
Theodora, HWV68
» But why art thou disquieted
» Oh! that I on wings could rise
» O thou bright sun
» Sinfonia (Act 2)
» Symphony of soft Musick
» With Darkness deep

Hayes, Philip

Telemachus
» Soon arrives thy fatal hour

Smith, John Christopher

Paradise Lost
» It comes! it comes! it must be death!
» Oh! do not, Adam, exercise on me thy hatred
Rebecca
» But see, the night with silent pace steals on
» O balmy Sleep!

Artists

Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

Laurence Cummings

About

Excelling in Renaissance and baroque repertoire, the young British soprano Ruby Hughes pays tribute to Handel’s last prima donna, the Italian soprano Giulia Frasi.

For her debut recording on Chandos she has chosen a selection of celebrated arias composed for Frasi by Handel, in his late oratorios Susanna, Solomon, Theodora, and Jephtha, and other composers of the era, whose works are now much less familiar, offering several modern premieres.

Performed on period instruments by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Laurence Cummings, and recorded in surround-sound, this programme is unique of its kind.

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