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This recording of Orlando was done in a studio and released by the reconstituted Archiv Produktion label in 2014, but it features the cast and musicians from a 2012 live production in Brussels. For some this may be an improvement; the 2012 staging was controversial, presenting Ariosto's king Orlando as a kind of arsonist. Here everything is stripped down to the musical elements, which are very fine indeed. A good deal of the opera's abundant stage machinery is retained, and here and elsewhere the Archiv engineering team does very well. The ensembles give the feel of listening to an opera, but nothing is boxy or distorted. Orlando, rediscovered only in 1959, ranks among the most unjustifiably neglected of Handel's operas. Its modern champion, countertenor Bejun Mehta, reprises the title role here, and his performance is well worth the price of this two-disc set. The climax of the opera comes with Orlando's descent into madness at end of Act II, and Mehta's performance here, totally absorbed in the role and not at all histrionic, is extraordinary. He's backed by a strong international cast, notably bass Konstantin Wolff as Zoroaster (who has the task of talking Orlando down), and in all this could be the performance that puts Orlando on operatic stages, not just in recorded excerpt compilations.
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Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 1 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 2 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 3 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Martin Sauer, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grazio Braccioli, Author - René Jacobs, Conductor, MainArtist - Bejun Mehta, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sunhae Im, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Konstantin Wolff, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kristina Hammarström, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B’Rock Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
This recording of Orlando was done in a studio and released by the reconstituted Archiv Produktion label in 2014, but it features the cast and musicians from a 2012 live production in Brussels. For some this may be an improvement; the 2012 staging was controversial, presenting Ariosto's king Orlando as a kind of arsonist. Here everything is stripped down to the musical elements, which are very fine indeed. A good deal of the opera's abundant stage machinery is retained, and here and elsewhere the Archiv engineering team does very well. The ensembles give the feel of listening to an opera, but nothing is boxy or distorted. Orlando, rediscovered only in 1959, ranks among the most unjustifiably neglected of Handel's operas. Its modern champion, countertenor Bejun Mehta, reprises the title role here, and his performance is well worth the price of this two-disc set. The climax of the opera comes with Orlando's descent into madness at end of Act II, and Mehta's performance here, totally absorbed in the role and not at all histrionic, is extraordinary. He's backed by a strong international cast, notably bass Konstantin Wolff as Zoroaster (who has the task of talking Orlando down), and in all this could be the performance that puts Orlando on operatic stages, not just in recorded excerpt compilations.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 38 track(s)
- Total length: 02:39:32
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artist: Bejun Mehta
- Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
- Label: Archiv Produktion
- Genre: Classical
© 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, Under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, Under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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