Handel: Ombra mai fù
- Georg Friedrich Handel
- Ombra mai fù: airs, scènes célèbres
et musique instrumentale
Andreas Scholl & Akademie für alte Musik Berlin
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1685 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 1685 [CD]
Contents:
Georg Friedrich Handel
Admeto, Rè di Tessaglia (London, 1727)
- Overture
- Ballo di Larve
- Recitativo-accompagnato "Orride larve"
- Atto I, scena 1: Aria "Chiudetevi, miei lumi"
Serse (London, 1738)
- Sinfonia
- Recitativo "Frondi tenere"
- Atto I, scena 1: Aria "Ombra mai fù"
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (London, 1724)
- Atto II, scena 2: Aria "Se in fiorito prato"
- Gigue
- Atto I, scena 9: Aria "Va tacito"
Radamisto, suite instrumentale (London, 1720)
- Passacaille
- Gigue
- Passepied
- Rigaudon
Rodelinda, Regina de Langobardi (London, 1725)
- Sinfonia - Recitativo "Pompe vano di morte"
- Atto I, scena 6: Aria "Dove sei"
- Sinfonia
- Accompagnato "Si, l'infida consorte"
- Atto I, scena 11: Aria "Confusa si miri"
Alcina (London, 1735)
- Atto II, scena 1: Aria "Verdi prati"
Alexander's Feast, concerto grosso (London, 1736)
- Allegro
- Largo
- Allegro
- Andante non presto
Playing time: 75' 21"
Performers:
Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)
Akademie für alte Musik Berlin
Recording site and date:
Berlin-Oberschöneweide, Christuskirche, Germany [10/1998]
Rel. 1999 (HMC), 2002 (HMX)
Excerpts:
[6]-[7] Harmonia Mundi "Century"
HMX 290 8174 L'Angleterre baroque - Baroque England / Un
siècle de musique anglaise (1650-1760) - Masks, Anthems
& Semi-operas
[7] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles"
HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes
et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (y., #-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge