Handel: Enchantresses
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Enchantresses
Sandrine Piau (soprano) / Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 14 January 2022
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Handel is one of Sandrine Piau's cult composers. 'Where once I portrayed light-hearted, pirouetting heroines, this new album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women.'. . . 'Queens, sorceresses, sirens . . . we were attracted by the musical and emotional intensity of the hopes, disappointments and sufferings of these women, not forgetting the malice or cruelty that they also know how to deploy', continues Jérôme Correas, the soprano's longstanding musical partner and conductor of Les Paladins. With Almirena, Cleopatra and Alcina, Handel explores all the facets of these defeated heroines, whose boldly delineated characters live once more in Sandrine Piau's passionate interpretation.
BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - VOCAL
"In this dazzling album, Sandrine Piau crowns her legacy as a Baroque prima donna...her informed additions subvert the original melodies and unleash a ferocious vocalism...Correas and the band add their own magic: whirlwind tempos, extravagant continuo realisations and slightly off-beat entries keep us guessing what the instrumentalists will do next." BBC Music Five Stars
"'Piangerò la sorte mia', finds the singer not darkening her tone but portraying Cleopatra's sadness with a touching intensity. 'Da tempeste il legno infranto', on the other hand, is a true contrast, sung with appealing vigour." Gramophone
"nothing detracts from performances notable for singing displaying a rare command of musical and textural syntax in addition to Piau's undimmed technical prowess" Opera
Tracks:
Lotario, HWV 26:
Aria "Scherza in mar la navicella"
Rinaldo, HWV 7a :
Aria "Il vostro maggio"
Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17:
Aria "Da tempeste"
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6: I. Larghetto affetuoso
Giulio Cesare in Egitto:
Recitativo "E pur così"
Aria "Piangerò la sorte mia"
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6: II. Allegro
Lucrezia, HWV 45 : Aria "Alla salma infedel"
Alcina, HWV 34 : Aria "Ah! mio cor!"
Amadigi Di Gaulo, HWV 11:
Overture
Aria "Desterò dall'empia Dite"
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 6: I. Larghetto e affettuoso
Alcina;
Aria "Tornami a vagheggiar"
Aria "Lascia ch'io pianga"
