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Jakub Jozef Orlinski: If music... (Vinyl LP) | Erato 2685427710

Jakub Jozef Orlinski: If music... (Vinyl LP)

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 2685427710

Barcode: 5026854277103

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 27th March 2026

Contents

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Partenope, HWV27
» Furibondo spira il vento
Rinaldo, HWV7
» Siam prossimi al porto
Rodelinda, HWV19
» Un zeffiro spiro
Semele, HWV58
» Where'er you walk
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Ombra mai fu (Act 1)

Purcell, Henry

Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574
» O lead me to some peaceful gloom
Come ye Sons of Art, Z323
» Strike the viol, touch the lute
If music be the food of love, Z379
King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
» What power art thou, who from below, hast made me rise (Act 3)
Oedipus, Z583
» Music for a while
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
» Sweeter than Roses
The Tempest, Z631 'The Enchanted Island'
» Your awful voice

Artists

Jakub Jozef Orlinski (countertenor)
Michal Biel (piano)

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Partenope, HWV27
» Furibondo spira il vento
Rinaldo, HWV7
» Siam prossimi al porto
Rodelinda, HWV19
» Un zeffiro spiro
Semele, HWV58
» Where'er you walk
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Ombra mai fu (Act 1)

Purcell, Henry

Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574
» O lead me to some peaceful gloom
Come ye Sons of Art, Z323
» Strike the viol, touch the lute
If music be the food of love, Z379
King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
» What power art thou, who from below, hast made me rise (Act 3)
Oedipus, Z583
» Music for a while
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
» Sweeter than Roses
The Tempest, Z631 'The Enchanted Island'
» Your awful voice

Artists

Jakub Jozef Orlinski (countertenor)
Michal Biel (piano)

About

***140g Coloured Vinyl LP ***

If music… showcases star countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński in 12 songs and arias by two composers of the Baroque era: Purcell and Handel. Perhaps unexpectedly, he is partnered not by an ensemble of period instruments but by a pianist – his long-standing colleague Michał Biel.

“On this album we have combined arias and songs that inspire and speak to us,” says Jakub Józef Orliński. “I love thinking of albums as pages out of my diary. They are a statement of where I am as an artist.” As Michał Biel, who draws on all the possibilities of a Steinway grand piano, freely admits: If music… is not an answer to the question of how to perform these masterpieces with historical authenticity.” He sees each aria or song as “a carefully considered transcription that reveals its appeal transcending instrumentation”.

The album’s title derives from a sensuous Purcell song with a text inspired by Shakespeare, “If music be the food of love”. As Orliński explains, “Each piece of music we perform on the album evokes a different answer for that blank space in its title.”  When it comes to the “Cold Song” (“What Power Art Thou?”) from Purcell’s King Arthur, Biel strikes chilling, percussive chords. “Here the listener should be shocked, frozen,” he says, “though my aim is not to ‘modernise’ or romanticise the music on the album, but to realise it on the modern piano while keeping true to its harmonies and spirit.”

Among the Handel arias are “Where’er you walk” from Semele (originally conceived for the tenor voice) and the stately “Ombra mai fu” from Serse.

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