Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music - George Frideric Handel: Orlando (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 727 Mb | Total time: 157:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 430 845-2 | Recorded: 1989-90
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 727 Mb | Total time: 157:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 430 845-2 | Recorded: 1989-90
Those inclined to take for granted Gluck's remarks concerning opera seria (''florid descriptions, unnatural paragons and sententious, cold morality'') could do a lot worse than listen to Handel's Orlando. Based at some remove on an episode from Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso, it's a work which in place of posturing heroes and unlikely dilemmas offers credible characters and situations, all drawn with that touching human sympathy and understanding that were such an important part of Handel's creative personality. First staged in London in 1733, it is one of the greatest operas the eighteenth century produced, yet it almost goes without saying that the very musical and dramatic qualities that place it beyond Gluckian criticism were at least partly responsible for the limited success it enjoyed in its own day. Audiences soaked in the blander conventions of Italian serious opera were perhaps tested just a little too much by Handel's ingenious manipulation of their expectations in this work, while its principal singer, the famous castrato Senesino, may well have been frustrated by the lack of opportunity for vocal display afforded by its title-role, that of a character who through unrequited love becomes oddly, even comically, deranged; significantly, Orlando was the last opera he sang in as a member of Handel's company.
Considering that the last (not very good) recording of the opera was made 20 years ago, this new one conducted by Christopher Hogwood comes not exactly before time. It's of a production that toured the USA in 1989 (and which was heard in London at that year's Proms), and the benefits are there to be heard in the assured contributions of its line-up of well-known baroque singers. The slightly exotic colouring and penetrating top notes of James Bowman's counter-tenor voice have always seemed best suited to operatic work, and though he shows weakness at the bottom of the range, his portrayal of Orlando is both impassioned and intelligent. More consistently impressive in vocal terms is Arleen Auger as the object of Orlando's love, Angelica; her singing has a more intense quality to it than that of the rest of the cast, so that at times she can sound a little out of place, but there is no denying the thrill of hearing her negotiate some of the virtuoso numbers Handel provides for her. Catherine Robbin is suitably solid in the less rewarding role of Angelica's lover Medoro (a part which was taken by a woman in Handel's time as well as ours), while David Thomas does his usual stern-voiced stuff as the magician Zoroastro, and Emma Kirkby is perfectly cast in the tragi-comic role of the shepherdess Dorinda.–Lindsay Kemp
Performer:
Orlando – James Bowman
Angelica – Arleen Auger
Medoro – Katherine Robinn
Dorinda – Emma Kirkby
Zoroastro – David Thomas
The Academy of Ansient Music
Conductor – Christopher Hogwood
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Orlando, HWV 31
CD1:
01. Ouvertura
02. Atto I. Gieroglifici eterni {Zoroastro)
03. Stimulato dalla gloria (Orlando)
04. Purgalo ormai da effeminati sensi (Zoroastro)
05. Sinfonia
06. Mira, e prendil'esempio… Lascia Amor (Zoroastro)
07. Imagini funeste (Orlando)
08. Non fu già men fotre Alcide (Orlando)
09. Quanto diletto avea… Io non so (Dorinda)
10. Itene pur tremendo (Orlando)
11. Ho un certo rossore (Dorinda)
12. M'hai vinto al fin (Angelica)
13. Rimrnava al suo bel viso (Angelica)
14. Spera, mio ben… Chi possessore (Angelica)
15. Ecco Dorinda (Medoro)
16. Se il cor mai ti dirà (Medoro)
17. Povera me! O care parolette (Dorinda)
18. Noti a me sono (Zoroastro)
19. Se fedel vuoi, ch'io ti creda (Angelica)
20. T'ubbidirò… Fammi combattere (Orlando)
21. Angelica, deh lascia (Medoro)
22. O Angelica, o Medoro (Dorinda)
23. Consolati o bella (Angelica, Medoro)
CD2:
01. Atto II. Qnando spieghi i tuoi tormenti (Dorinda)
02. Perchè, gentil Dorinda (Orlando)
03. Se mi rivolgo al prato (Dorinda)
04. E'questa la mercede… Cielo! Se tu il consenti (Orlando)
05. A qual rischio vi espone (Zoroastro)
06. Tra caligini profonde (Zoroastro)
07. Da queste amiche piante (Angelica)
08. Verdi allori (Medoro)
09. Dopo tanti perigli… Non potrà dirmi ingrata (Angelica)
10. Dove, dove guidate… Verdi Piante (Orlando, Angelica)
11. Ah perfida, qui sei! (Orlando)
12. Ah Stigie larve! (Orlando)
13. Già larra Cerbero (Orlando)
14. Vaghe pupille, non piangete, no (Orlando)
CD3:
01. Atto III. Sinfonia
02. Di Dorinda alle mura (Medoro)
03. Vorrei poterti amar (Medoro)
04. Più obbligata gli sono (Dorinda)
05. Unisca amor in noi (Orlando)
06. Già lo stringo (Orlando)
07. Di Dorinda all'albergo (Angelica
08. Così giusta è questa speme (Angelica)
09. S'è corrisposto un core… Amore è qual vento (Dorinda)
10. Impari ognun da Orlando… O voi del mio poter ministri eletti (Zoroastro)
11. Sorge infausta una procella (Zoroastro)
12. Dorinda, e perchè piangi? (Angelica)
13. Finché prendi ancora (Angelica)
14. Vieni- Vanne precipitando… Già per la man d'Orlando (Orlando)
15. Già l'ebro mio ciglio (Orlando)
16. Ecco il tempo prefisso!… Tu che del gran tonante (Zoroastro)
17. Sinfonia
18. Ah! Che fate signor? (Dorinda) - Sinfonia
19. Dormo ancora (Orlando)
20. Per far mia diletta (Orlando)
21. Che vedo, oh dei! (Orlando)
22. Vinse incanti (Orlando)
23. Trionfa oggi'l Mio Cor (Orlando)
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