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Let us indulge our elders for a moment. This recording of Handel’s Sosarme in London in 1954 (and in dreadful Italian) gives witness to the sound of the beginning of a great surge in baroque-era interpretations. Such a surge called into question how interpretations of baroque, and all other Western classical periods, have varied up until Stravinksi’s Sacre du printemps on period instruments. While it is difficult to listen to Anthony Lewis’ recording with its voiceless contemporary harpsichords, its cumbersome orchestra and its disorientated singers in unfamiliar territory, there remains the gracious performances of countertenor Alfred Deller in the title role, Nancy Evans’ Erenice and Helen Watts’ Melo. There’s not a lot, but what is there is precious. Anthony Lewis (1915-1983) was a musicologist, conductor, composer and professor of English music who worked strenuously for the rediscovery of music by Handel, Purcell and John Blow by publishing critical texts on their works. As an interpreter, Lewis was most strongly associated with the Oiseau-Lyre label from its creation. Together, they resuscitated a great number of works that were but names to those in the know, most notably the operas by Purcell, Handel, Monteverdi and Rameau. Like a true pioneer, he dedicated his whole life to reviving Baroque music and it’s with this in mind that we should re-listen to his work today. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Sosarme, HWV 30 / Act 1 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Sosarme, HWV 30 / Act 2 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Sosarme, HWV 30 / Act 3 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Wallace, Bass-Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Evans, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - John Kentish, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Herbert, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Margaret Ritchie, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Deller, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Anthony Lewis, Conductor, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Author - The St. Anthony Singers, Choir, MainArtist - St. Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Albumbeschreibung
Let us indulge our elders for a moment. This recording of Handel’s Sosarme in London in 1954 (and in dreadful Italian) gives witness to the sound of the beginning of a great surge in baroque-era interpretations. Such a surge called into question how interpretations of baroque, and all other Western classical periods, have varied up until Stravinksi’s Sacre du printemps on period instruments. While it is difficult to listen to Anthony Lewis’ recording with its voiceless contemporary harpsichords, its cumbersome orchestra and its disorientated singers in unfamiliar territory, there remains the gracious performances of countertenor Alfred Deller in the title role, Nancy Evans’ Erenice and Helen Watts’ Melo. There’s not a lot, but what is there is precious. Anthony Lewis (1915-1983) was a musicologist, conductor, composer and professor of English music who worked strenuously for the rediscovery of music by Handel, Purcell and John Blow by publishing critical texts on their works. As an interpreter, Lewis was most strongly associated with the Oiseau-Lyre label from its creation. Together, they resuscitated a great number of works that were but names to those in the know, most notably the operas by Purcell, Handel, Monteverdi and Rameau. Like a true pioneer, he dedicated his whole life to reviving Baroque music and it’s with this in mind that we should re-listen to his work today. © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 46 track(s)
- Total length: 02:27:43
- Main artist: Anthony Lewis
- Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
- Label: Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Genre: Klassiek
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 1955 Decca Music Group Limited
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