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Georg Friedrich Händel : Orlando

Bejun Mehta

Classical - Released May 12, 2014 | Archiv Produktion

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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.© TiVo
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Handel: Finest Arias for Base (Bass) Voice, Vol. 1

Christopher Purves

Classical - Released December 2, 2012 | Hyperion

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There's no shortage of Handel aria recitals these days, especially in Britain, but this one by bass baritone Christopher Purves stands out from the crowd in several respects. First of all, it is rare in collecting arias for bass voice, which was, in Handel's time as it was later on, generally associated with a few fixed and generally negative character types (tyrants, rogues, repressive patriarchs). Second, it's a very pleasantly varied collection of tunes, including displays of brilliant passagework, out-of-the-norm writing in service of characterization (Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori, from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, track 4), and high climactic drama (the big, three-part Revenge, Timotheus cries, from Alexander's Feast, track 19, is a familiar example). Finally, Purves unearths some rarely heard pieces and programs them intelligently. When did anyone last year anything from Muzio Scevola, or Riccardo Primo, rè d'Inghilterra, which must have pleased London audiences in 1727 despite its Italian-language text. Purves does not have the biggest voice in the bass baritone universe, and there could be a bit more sound in the very low notes. But the dimensions of the music are right for the period. He's pleasingly accurate in the passagework, and he's a real actor who makes these potentially stilted characters come alive. Listeners will want to hear Purves in a small production of one of these operas after hearing this album, preferably accompanied by the strong historical-instrument group Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, as he is here.© TiVo
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Ombra cara (Airs de Georg Friedrich Händel)

Bejun Mehta

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released November 16, 2010 | harmonia mundi

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Georg Friedrich Händel : Opera Seria

Sandrine Piau

Opera Extracts - Released November 2, 2004 | naïve classique

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Handel: Orlando, HWV 31

Owen Willetts

Classical - Released September 1, 2013 | ATMA Classique

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Haendel: Opera Seria

Sandrine Piau

Classical - Released November 2, 2004 | naïve classique

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Enemies in Love

Georg Friedrich Händel

Classical - Released February 9, 2018 | Ëvoe Music

This recording of Handel arias announces exciting new talents on several fronts. First is that of countertenor Jakub Józef Orlinski, who has studied at both the Juilliard School (graduating in 2017) and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He's colorful, expressive, and endowed with plenty of power. More broadly there is the growth of the early music scene in Poland, which has existed for some time but has produced few state-of-the-art releases like this one, with fine, edgy backing from the group Il Giardino d'Amore, founded in 2012 in Krakow and thoroughly Polish despite its name. Check out the spectacular talent of harpsichordist Ewa Mrowca in Vo far guerra in the lengthy keyboard interludes in Rinaldo. The presence of that piece indicates the strength of the program as a whole, which is varied in tone and structure, with several duets that show real sympathy between the principals, rather than offering a string of inevitable da capo arias. Last but not least there is the spectacular Natalia Kawalek, who's classed as a mezzo-soprano but runs the whole gamut from a low growl (sample Amor è qual vento from Orlando) to light agility at the top, in many pieces that would generally be considered soprano arias. Complaints? Poorly edited translations in the booklet. End of list.© TiVo
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Deller Vol. 4; Handel, Bach & The English Renaissance

Alfred Deller: Deller Consort, Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released January 1, 2008 | Musical Concepts

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The Power of Love (Arias from Handel operas)

Georg Friedrich Händel

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released October 2, 2015 | Avie Records

A rising operatic star, soprano Amanda Forsythe is a specialist in Baroque vocal music, and her lively performances of arias by George Frederick Handel on Avie's The Power of Love demonstrate her impressive skills. Backed by Jeannette Sorrell and the dynamic period instruments ensemble Apollo's Fire, Forsythe sings selections from Alcina, Almira, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Partenope, Rinaldo, Serse, and Teseo, a mix of Handel's most famous and not-so-famous operas. Singing with the elaborate ornamentation and expressive depth that characterize Baroque opera, Forsythe is quite agile and varied in her tone, though her sparkling upper tessitura is her claim to fame, and her runs and trills are truly exciting to hear. Interspersed with the arias are a handful of dances from Handel's ballet suite, Terpsichore, which complement the vocal tracks and show the orchestra's sonorities to best advantage. © TiVo
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Handel Edition Volume 1 - Alcina, Orlando

Handel Edition

Classical - Released September 13, 1996 | Warner Classics International

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Handel: Orlando

Arleen Auger

Classical - Released January 1, 1991 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Handelian Pyrotechnics

Armonico Consort

Classical - Released April 2, 2021 | Signum Records

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Armonico Consort return to album on Signum with a collection of Handel arias, performed by leading counter-tenor William Towers. A noted soloist in both opera and oratorio, the programme is taken from roles which Towers has sung across his career in various productions across the globe. Towers writes: “It is the life-affirming, live-giving aspect of Handel that I’m aiming to celebrate. So frequently his operas reveal their most devastatingly beautiful and uplifting music when life is at its darkest. Here the arias shine brightest, here we find Radamisto’s ‘Ombra cara’ and the boundlessly optimistic ‘Dopo l’orrore’, looking out beyond the darkest clouds to the faint glimmer of a dawning hope. This is the uncrushable, indomitable spirit that lies in all of us ... We just need to take the time to listen.” © Signum
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Handel: Orlando

Bejun Mehta

Classical - Released May 12, 2014 | Archiv Produktion

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

Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6 (Transc. M. Podeur & O. Bass)

Orlando Bass

Classical - Released April 1, 2016 | Maguelone Music

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Handel: Orlando, HWV 31

Owen Willetts

Classical - Released September 1, 2013 | ATMA Classique

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Orlando

Jean-Claude Malgoire

Full Operas - Released March 25, 2010 | K617

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Orlando, HWV 31

Georg Friedrich Händel

Classical - Released June 25, 2020 | Brandenburg Classics

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Memorial Day: A Commemoration

Orlando Opera

Classical - Released August 13, 2020 | 4-Tay Inc.