Tags
Language
Tags
March 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
25 26 27 28 29 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Anthony Lewis, The Baroque Opera Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Admetus, King of Thessaly (2004)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Anthony Lewis, The Baroque Opera Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Admetus, King of Thessaly (2004)

Anthony Lewis, The Baroque Opera Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Admetus, King of Thessaly (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 530 Mb | Total time: 63:55+71:32+77:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ponto | # PO-1029 | Recorded: 1968, 1969

For decades there has been only one recording of Admeto available: a quite splendid performance from 1977 (Virgin Records 5613692) directed by Alan Curtis with Il complesso barocco. One of the first baroque operas to be recorded with original instruments, it reflects the best of the historical performance movement. It is thus with considerable anticipation and curiosity that one approaches this new release of Handel’s Admeto, sung in English (to a fine translation by Geoffrey Dunn), directed by Sir Anthony Lewis, and recorded just nine years earlier in 1968. The cast for this recording is no less remarkable. Dame Janet Baker plays the self-sacrificing Alcestis; Admetus is sung elegantly and expressively by Maureen Lehane; Sheila Armstong is a brilliant and stylish Antigona, and the mezzo soprano Margaret Lensky provides a touching portrayal of the lovesick Thrasymedes.

Anthony Lewis, The English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Anthony Lewis, The English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2008)

Anthony Lewis, The English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,14 Gb | Total time: 79:34+76:51+69:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ponto | # PO-1058 | Recorded: 1972

The first pleasant surprise here is the brightness and clarity of the radio broadcast sound; indeed, it is a bit too bright and harsh but better that than muddiness. There is evidently an audience who applaud at the end but otherwise there is no extraneous noise throughout. Secondly, there is the spring and bounce of the English Chamber Orchestra, alertly directed by Baroque specialist Sir Anthony Lewis. Thirdly we hear a first rate cast of splendid voices headed by Janet Baker, an array of voices unequalled in any of the other nine extant recordings.

Osian Ellis, Desmond Dupre, Thurston Dart - Handel: Jephtha; Rodrigo; Concertos for Lute and Harp (1959/2018)

Posted By: delpotro
Osian Ellis, Desmond Dupre, Thurston Dart - Handel: Jephtha; Rodrigo; Concertos for Lute and Harp (1959/2018)

Osian Ellis, Desmond Dupre, Thurston Dart, Philomusica of London, Anthony Lewis & Granville Jones - Handel: Jephtha; Rodrigo; Concertos for Lute and Harp (1959/2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 283 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | 01:00:47
Classical | Label: Decca Classics, Australian Eloquence

The works on this collection are drawn from two of the very first stereo LPs released by the L’Oiseau-Lyre sub-label of Decca. ‘Music of Handel’ was a 1958 album containing arias (recently reissued by Eloquence 482 4759) and this instrumental suite from Rodrigo, one of the composer’s early pre-London Italian operas, performed in Florence in 1707.

Anthony Lewis, New Symphony Orchestra - Handel: Semele (2018)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Anthony Lewis, New Symphony Orchestra - Handel: Semele (2018)

Anthony Lewis, New Symphony Orchestra - Handel: Semele (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 357 Mb | Total time: 137:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eloquence ‎| 482 5055 | Recorded: 1956

Jennifer Vyvyan is the star of Handel’s Semele in an early recording of the opera conducted by Anthony Lewis and recorded for L’Oiseau-Lyre in 1956; this pioneering Handel recording of the 1950s in a new digital remastering, released on Decca CD for the first time.

Anthony Lewis, Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller - Handel: Sosarme, re di Media (2001)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Anthony Lewis, Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller - Handel: Sosarme, re di Media (2001)

Anthony Lewis, Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller - Handel: Sosarme, re di Media (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 591 Mb | Total time: 75:16+70:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera d'Oro | # OPD-1319 | Recorded: 1955

Following the premiere performance of Handel's opera "Sosarme, re di Media" on 15 February 1732, Viscount Percival remarked that, the work is well received in the city, and quite rightly so, for it is one of the best I have ever heard. The intrigue-laced plot goes back to 14th century historical events, when a dispute about succession broke out between King Dionysius (Denis), his son Alfonso and King Ferdinand IV of Castile. Following the last performance of Sosarme in 1734, the work slumbered for some two hundred years until British composer, conductor and musicologist Anthony Lewis revived Handel's composition in 1954. This recording, featuring the St. Anthony Singers and St. Cecilia Orchestra and conducted by Lewis, vouches for historical authenticity last but not least thanks to an ensemble of singers well-versed in Handel's works, including counter-tenor Alfred Deller and contralto Helen Watts.