HANDEL

Operatic Arias

 

Siroe

1. Ouverture

2. Recitativo Cosroe “No, io per sua pena” I

3. Aria Cosroe “Se il mio paterno amore” I

4. Recitativo Cosroe “Ove son? Che m’avvenne?” III

5. Aria Cosroe “Gelido in ogni vena” III

Orlando

6. Accompagnato Zoroastro “Impari ognun da Orlando” III

7. Aria Zoroastro “Sorge infausta una procella” III

Agrippina

8. Aria Claudio “Pur ritorno a rimirarvi” I

9. Recitativo Claudio, Poppea* “Ma, o ciel, mesta e confusa”

10. Arietta Claudio “Vieni, o cara” I

Serse

11. Recitativo Elviro “Me infelice…” II

12. Arietta Elviro “Del mio caro Bacco amabile” II

Alcina

13. Ouverture – Musette – Menuet

14. Aria Melisso “Pensa a chi geme” II

Tamerlano

15. Aria Leone “Amor da guerra e pace” II

Cantata “dalla guerra amorosa”

16. Recitativo “Dalla guerra amorosa”

17. Aria “Non v’alletti un occhio nero”

18. Recitativo “Fuggite, si fuggite!”

19. Aria “La bellezza è com’un fiore”

20. Finale “Fuggite… a chi servo d’amor”

Cantata “apollo e dafne”

21. Recitativo “Placati alfin, o cara”

22. Aria Apollo “Come rosa in su la spina”

 

Lorenzo Regazzo, Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini

 

World-renowned bass, Lorenzo Regazzo, one of the finest singers of his generation, performs a recital of Handel operatic arias accompanied by Concerto Italiano under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini.

 

Two musical titans in the classical world, award-winning Italian bass Lorenzo Regazzo and Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini, both major Naïve artists, are brought together once again to record the greatest operatic arias by George Frederic Handel. Handel, one of the most celebrated operatic composers of the eighteenth century, always remained out of step with the preferences of his era – notably his attachment to the ‘natural’ male voice in a time when the high voices of women or castratos triumphed everywhere. The programme on this release, covering thirty years of Handelian repertory, beautifully illustrates the way Handel wrote for the bass voice, and demonstrates how he required singers in this register to perform feats immeasurably more challenging than those called for by other continental composers of the period. Lorenzo Regazzo also presents in this programme a mini artist portrait of the bass Giuseppe Maria Boschi, creator of the role of Pallante in Agrippina, and who was to take part in some fifteen London premieres, from Rinaldo (1711) to Tolomeo (1728).

 

Naïve OP30472