GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

 

Arias

 

'Ah! mio cor'

 

1  Alcina: "Ah! mio cor!"

2  Hercules: "Were shall I fly?"

3  Agrippina: "Pensieri, voi mi tormentate!"

4  Giulio Cesare in Egitto: "Cara speme, questo core tu cominci"

5  Joshua: "Oh! had I Jubal's lyre"

6  Ariodante: "Scherza infida in grembo al drudo"

7  Theodora: "With darkness deep"

8  Amadigi di Gaula: "Desterò dall' empia dite"

9  Orlando: "Ah stigie larve! – Vaghe pupille, non piangete, no"

10 Ariodante: "Dopo notte, atra e funesta"

11 Rinaldo: "Lascia ch'io pianga"

 

Digital Bonus Track

12 Serse: "Ombra mai fù"

 

Magdalena Kozena

 

Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon

 

Following her best-selling album Lamento, Magdalena Kožená returns to her musical home ground – the world of dramatic Baroque singing – with her first Handel arias album.

 

Once again Kožená has combined well-known with lesser-known works to create a personal anthology of the most dramatic moments of love, hatred, hope, and desperation. The programme includes arias from Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare, Alcina, and Joshua, among others.

 

Handel’s complex characters and passionate writing are the perfect vehicles for Kožená’s unique talent for delivering even the most elaborate emotions through the sheer beauty of her singing. “The voice that goes straight to the heart” (The Sunday Times) takes listeners on an emotional odyssey

 

The Handel album also brings Kožená’s first collaboration with the acclaimed Venice Baroque Orchestra and Andrea Marcon.

 

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