Handel: Arcadian Duets / Various: Lamenti

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HANDEL / CAVALLI / MONTEVERDI / STROZZI / LANDI / CARISSIMI
Handel: Arcadian Duets / Various: Lamenti
Natalie Dessay, Veronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky / Le Concert d'Astrae, Emmanuelle Haim

[ Erato Veritas / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 4 February 2018

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

"they relish the expressive potential of the amorous texts and Handel's piercing dissonances, abetted by the varied colours and light, springing rhythms of the continuo group.Handel-singing surely doesn't come much better than that." ***** Five Stars Editor's Choice BBC Music Magazine

Gramophone Award Winner 2003 - Baroque Vocal

"The chamber duets that Handel wrote at various periods of his life are still among his best-kept secrets. Never one to under-exploit his musical ideas, he quarried from many of them for larger works, most famously Messiah, where the reuse of music originally associated with erotic love would not have bothered 18th-century audiences one iota. The cosmopolitan cast, most of them Baroque specialists, all have pure-toned, agile voices and show proper care for blend and balance. Beyond that, they relish the expressive potential of the amorous texts and Handel's piercing dissonances, abetted by the varied colours and light, springing rhythms of the continuo group.Handel-singing surely doesn't come much better than that. (BBC Music Magazine on Duets)

"This all-star cast includes the ravishing Natalie Dessay as Monteverdi's forsaken nymph, Véronique Gens, a proud, desolate Ariadne, and Joyce DiDonato, who sings Octavia's farewell with extraordinary dramatic passion. Much of the interest of this disc lies in its subtleties, Emmanuelle Haïm highlighting telling details..." BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ***** (on Lamenti)

"A starry host of singers bring their talents to bear on Haïm's programme" Gramophone Magazine, January 2009 (on Lamenti

During the first half of the 17th century the Lamenti became a rite of passage for all self-respecting composers of vocal music, challenging them to develop new ways of depicting extreme emotions and move their listeners to tears - as Monteverdi, Cavalli, Strozzi, Landi, Carissimi & Cesti had done. Hundred years later, Handel relie on the same kind of expressive interplay between voices to convey pain to his introspective Arcadian Duets

Tracks:

Handel:
Ahi, nelle sorte umane (6:58)
No, di voi non vo' fidarmi (6:01)
Caro autor di mia doglia (8:14)
Quel fior che all'alba ride (4:41)
Conservate, raddoppiate (4:30)
Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi (9:18)
Va, speme infida (7:16)
A mirarvi io son intento (10:11)
Sono liete, fortunate (4:49)

Carissimi:
Lamento della Maria Stuarda
Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)

Cavalli:
Hipparco, e di Climene, Lamento d'Egisto
Rolando Villazón (tenor)

Acate, Ilioneo, Lamento di Enea
Topi Lehtipuu (tenor)

Alle ruine del mio regno, Lamento d'Ecuba e Cassandra
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (alto) & Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)

Cesti:
Dure noie, Lamento d'Atamante
Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone)

Landi:
Superbe colli
Christopher Purves (baritone)

Monteverdi:
Lamento della ninfa
Natalie Dessay (soprano), Simon Wall (tenor), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor) & Christopher Purves (baritone)

Lamento d'Arianna
Véronique Gens (soprano)

Addio Roma
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

Tu se' morta mia vita, Lamento d'Orfeo
Rolando Villazón (tenor)

Strozzi:
L'Eraclito amoroso 'Udite amanti'
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)