Arnold Gramm, Orchestra American Opera Society, Montserrat Caballé - George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 68:20+71:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | GL 100.551 | Recorded: 1967
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 68:20+71:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | GL 100.551 | Recorded: 1967
The performance given on 21 March 1967 at Carnegie Hall in New York stems from the now outmoded tradition of casting baritones and basses in the castrato roles, and uses a special concert arrangement. Not only are several cuts made to the score, but the order of the arias is changed and the recitatives are heavily truncated and provided with new English texts, and given not to one of the characters but to a 'narrator'.