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    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (2012)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (2012)

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (2012)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.22 Gb | Total time: 77:55+74:08+68:27 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | OP30536 | Recorded: 2011

    This exciting studio recording is the second project resulting from the collaboration between Marie-Nicole Lemieux Karina Gauvin and conductor and harpsichordist Alan Curtis' award winning Complesso Barocco. Giulio Cesare is one of Handel's most renowned operas and the role of Giulio Cesare is considered to be one of the most beautiful roles in the baroque opera. The full vocal cast is stunning and Alan Curtis shows once again why he is considered one of the world's leading Handel specialists.

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (2011)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (2011)

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,98 Gb | Total time: 69:54+63:50+59:15 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 5099907084423 | Recorded: 2010

    The scope and grandeur of Handel's operatic output – the musical variety and inventiveness, the depth of psychological insight, as well as the sheer volume of works – continue to astonish as new operas are brought to light and more familiar works are given productions and recordings that do justice to the material. Ariodante, written in 1735, is nowhere nearly as frequently performed as the more famous operas like Giulio Cesare, but neither is it entirely obscure, and there have been several very fine modern recordings. This version with Alan Curtis leading Il Complesso Barocco can be recommended without reservation to anyone coming to the opera for the first time or for anyone who's already a fan.

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Ezio (2009)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Ezio (2009)

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Ezio (2009)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 991 Mb | Total time: 67:56+61:08+57:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 477 8073 | Recorded: 2008

    Alan Curtis continues his exemplary series of Handel operas for Archiv with Ezio, a 1732 work that has received few modern productions. Its initial limited success and failure to generate much interest until the late twentieth century may have to do with its length (over three hours), its preponderance of recitatives, and the composer's reluctance to use the voices together in ensembles, so that the entire opera, until the final chorus, consists of solo singing. Handel's gift for astute psychological insight and distinctive musical characterization is evident throughout the score, and the recitatives, which are necessary for explicating Metastasio's convoluted plot, are not a problem when they are performed with as much vivid dramatic realism as they are here.

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Alcina (2009)

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    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Alcina (2009)

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Alcina (2009)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.02 Gb | Total time: 76:24+72:16+54:36 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 477 7374 | Recorded: 2007

    Alan Curtis' stellar recording of Alcina, which joins a respectable number of very fine recordings of the opera, is remarkable for the supple liveliness of his conducting and the outstanding performances of the soloists. The elasticity of his performance, leading Il Complesso Barocco, should dispel any misconceptions about Baroque music being rigid and metronomic. The nuanced care with which he brings out the emotional depth of Handel's writing is evident from the first measures of the overture and enlivens the entire opera.

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Tolomeo (2008)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Tolomeo (2008)

    Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - George Frideric Handel: Tolomeo (2008)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 767 Mb | Total time: 56:11+45:25+46:47 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 477 7106 | Recorded: 2006

    For the 1727 season – the waning days of opera's popularity in London – transplanted German composer George Frederick Handel wrote no less than three operas for the English capital's stage. Tolomeo, rè d'Egitto was the last and least enthusiastically received of them. Unsuccessfully revived in 1730 and then again in 1733, Tolomeo was unperformed for the next 200 years, and even now, it remains one of Handel's least performed and recorded operas. Prior to this Archiv set, only a 1995 Vox recording of the work with Richard Auldon Clark leading the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra had been released in the digital era.

    Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2014)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2014)

    Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2014)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,00 Gb | Total time: 62:50+61:49+68:35 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5373 | Recorded: 2013

    Following the recording of several complete Baroque operas: Faramondo, Farnace, Artaserse, Alessandro, all received with unrestrained critical enthusiasm eg Gramophone Editor's Choice, BBC Music Magazine CD of the Month, Handel Recording Prize, Max Emanuel Cencic once again brings together a fine group of singers and orchestra for the rarely recorded Handel opera, 'Tamerlano'. The title role is taken by the exceptional counter-tenor, Xavier Sabata.

    Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Pacific Baroque Orchestra - Nuits Blanches (2020)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Pacific Baroque Orchestra - Nuits Blanches (2020)

    Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Pacific Baroque Orchestra - Nuits Blanches: Opera Arias at the Russian court of the 18th century (2020)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 57:05 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Atma Classique | # ACD 22791 | Recorded: 2019

    Nuits blanches (White Nights) is a much anticipated new recording by soprano Karina Gauvin, who stylishly animates the opera heroines of the 18th century Russian court. Musical life during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great was a rich blend of diverse styles and influences originating from all over Europe. The Tsar was known for his love of music, a tradition that was carried on by his successors, the Empresses Anne, Elizabeth, and Catherine II, who cultivated cosmopolitan tastes for all kinds of music, including opera.

    Karina Gauvin, CBC Radio Orchestra, Bernard Labadie - Exsultate, Jubilate (2001)

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    Karina Gauvin, CBC Radio Orchestra, Bernard Labadie - Exsultate, Jubilate (2001)

    Karina Gauvin, CBC Radio Orchestra, Bernard Labadie - Exsultate, Jubilate (2001)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:11:57 | 338 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: CBC | Catalog: SM 5000

    Those who have had the good fortune of hearing live performances as conducted by Bernard Labadie with his usual ensembles Les Violons du Roy and La Chappelle de Québec will understand why this radiant recording is so special. Labadie is an authentic period devotee and his intensive scholarship and gifts as a conductor pull us back in time to the purity of sound surrounding these compositions.

    Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Louise Bertin: Fausto (2024)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Louise Bertin: Fausto (2024)

    Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Louise Bertin: Fausto (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 584 Mb | Total time: 02:05:57 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Palazzetto Bru Zane | # BZ 1054 | Recorded: 2023

    It was around 1825 that Louise Bertin, pupil of Reicha and friend of Berlioz, tackled the subject of Faust with all the energy and confidence of a young woman of twenty. She entirely exceeded the public's expectations and won over the critics with her daring. Colourful orchestration, charming cantabiles, vigorous choruses - everything seemed to promise the work would enter the repertory. But the closure of the Theatre-Italien after just three performances in 1831 decided otherwise, and the score languished in the vaults of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France for 190 years.

    Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)

    Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,99 Gb | Total time: 184:57 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 30413 | Recorded: 2005

    Most of Vivaldi's operas were composed for Venice, but between 1718 and 1720, he was in the employ the Austrian governor of Mantua, and he composed Tito Manlio for the governor's wedding celebration. The wedding never took place, but the opera was performed in 1719. The Mantuan court was very wealthy, and this is clear from the lavish scoring of Manlio: in addition to the usual strings, Vivaldi uses horns, trumpets, oboes, bassoon, two different registers of flutes, timpani and viola d'amore.

    Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)

    Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,07 Gb | Total time: 74:31+62:48+66:07 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 0825646090075 | Recorded: 2015

    Handel’s sparkling opera Partenope reunites countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and soprano Karina Gauvin, who both made such an impact in the recording of Steffani’s rediscovered Niobe – released by Erato in early 2015 and welcomed by Gramophone as “a landmark event”. Every moment of Partenope’s comedy, romance and drama is captured by the dynamic conductor Riccardo Minasi and his ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro.

    Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)

    Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 69:17 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557493 | Recorded: 2004

    You might accurately describe this program as a compilation of "great hits of Christian church music", including as it does Franck's Panis angelicus, Finzi's God is gone up, Mozart's Laudate Dominum, Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, Lotti's Crucifixus, Howells' Magnificat, and the overrated, overwrought, overlong (and usually excruciatingly-sung) Hear my prayer by Mendelssohn. We also get a couple of Purcell anthems, O God, Thou art my God and Remember not, O Lord, Stanford's glorious motet Justorum animae, Duruflé's tiny masterpiece Ubi caritas et amor, and the choral setting of Elgar's "Nimrod" orchestral variation (Lux aeterna).

    Jeremie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Jeremie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)

    Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 641 Mb | Total time: 58:24+76:08 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1035 | Recorded: 2016

    According to Berlioz, Spontini was – after Gluck – the greatest genius of French music to pave the way for the Romantic era. And it may well be that the little-known Olympie, premiered in 1819 and subsequently revived in 1826 under the modified title Olimpie, had a greater influence than we have hitherto imagined on the massive upheaval that was to set French opera on the path of the modern ‘grand opéra’. From start to finish, this finely polished score, with its astonishing orchestration, is full of spectacular effects that clearly look forward to Les Troyens of Berlioz.

    Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

    Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 540 Mb | Total time: 65:55+57:16 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5295 | Recorded: 2011

    The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello. In the eighteenth century, 1,300 years after the last Olympic Games in ancient times, the Olympic theme was highly fashionable. Many composers based operas on the libretto L'Olimpiade by Metastasio. This recording has been structured to contain all of Metastasio’s original arias; it is a pasticcio in the sense that the music is by 16 different composers amongst the many that set the libretto between 1733 and the end of the century.

    Karina Gauvin, Luc Beausejour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Karina Gauvin, Luc Beausejour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)

    Karina Gauvin, Luc Beauséjour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Analekta | # 22012 | Recorded: 1995

    The Notenbuchlein (or “Little Music Book”) for Anna Magdalena Bach is one of the most affectionate and tangible means by which we can glimpse an aspect of the Bach family ‘off duty’, so-to-speak. Bach began this anthology devoted mainly to the keyboard for his second wife in 1722, having three years earlier done the same for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Musically speaking, the most important contents are five suites which, with some additional material and a sixth suite, were to become the French Suites (BWV812-7). But it is the remaining pieces which convey such warm intimacy to us, looking, as it were, through the window.