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Handel: Alcina |  | Artists: Joyce DiDonato, Maite Beaumont, Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Kobie Van Rensburg, Laura Cherici, Vito Priante
Creators: George Frideric Handel, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco
Label: Archiv Produktion
Category: Music
List Price: $35.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 23049
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 001275602
UPC: 028947773740
EAN: 0028947773740
ASIN: B001M48X3Y
Release Date: April 14, 2009
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Ouverture | | • | Musette | | • | Menuet | | • | "O Dei! quivi non scorgo" (Bradamante, Melisso, Morgana) | | • | Aria: "O s'apre al riso" (Morgana) | | • | Coro: "Questo è il cielo di contenti" (Coro) | | • | Gavotte | | • | Sarabande | | • | Gavotte (da capo) | | • | Menuet | | • | Gavotte | | • | "Ecco l'infido" / "Taci!" (Bradamante, Melisso, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Di', cor mio, quanto t'amai" (Alcina) | | • | "Generosi guerrier, deh! per pietade" (Oberto, Melisso, Bradamante) | | • | Aria: "Chi m'insegna il caro padre" (Oberto) | | • | "Mi ravvisi, Ruggier" (Bradamante, Ruggiero, Melisso) | | • | Aria: "Di te mi rido" (Ruggiero) | | • | "Qua dunque ne veniste" (Oronte, Bradamante, Morgana) | | • | Aria: "È gelosia, forza è d'amore" (Bradamante) | | • | "Io dunque..." (Oronte, Morgana) | | • | Aria: "Bramo di trionfar" (Ruggiero) | | • | "La cerco invano" (Ruggiero, Oronte) | | • | Aria: "Semplicetto! a donna credi?" (Oronte) | | • | "Ah, infedele, infedel!" (Ruggiero, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Sì, son quella, non più bella" (Alcina) | | • | "Se nemico mi fossi" (Bradamante, Ruggiero) | | • | Aria: "La bocca vaga" (Ruggiero) | | • | "A quai strani perigli" (Melisso, Bradamante) | | • | Aria: "Tornami a vagheggiar" (Morgana) |
Disc 2
| • | Arioso: "Col celarvi a chi v'ama" (Ruggiero, Melisso) | | • | Arioso: "Qual portento mi richiama" (Ruggiero, Melisso) | | • | Aria: "Pensa a chi geme" (Melisso) | | • | "Qual odio ingiusto contro me?" (Bradamante, Ruggiero) | | • | Aria: "Vorrei vendicarmi" (Bradamante) | | • | "Chi scopre al mio pensiero" (Ruggiero) | | • | Aria: "Mi lusinga il dolce affetto" (Ruggiero) | | • | "S'acquieti il rio sospetto" (Alcina, Morgana) | | • | Aria: "Ama, sospira, ma non t'offende" (Morgana) | | • | "Non scorgo nel tuo viso" (Alcina, Ruggiero) | | • | Aria: "Mio bel tesoro" (Ruggiero) | | • | "Regina, io cerco invano" (Oberto, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Tra speme e timore" (Oberto) | | • | "Regina, sei tradita!" (Oronte, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Ah! mio cor, schernito sei!" (Alcina) | | • | "Or che dici, Morgana?" (Oronte, Morgana) | | • | Aria: "È un folle, è un vile affetto" (Oronte) | | • | "Ed è ver che mi narri?" (Oberto, Bradamante) | | • | Aria: "Verdi prati, selve amene" (Ruggiero) | | • | Recitativo accompagnato: "Ah! Ruggiero crudel" (Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Ombre pallide" (Alcina) |
Disc 3
| • | Sinfonia | | • | "Voglio amar e disamar" (Oronte, Morgana) | | • | Aria: "Credete al mio dolore" (Morgana) | | • | "M'inganna, me n'avveggo" (Oronte) | | • | Aria: "Un momento di contento" (Oronte) | | • | "Molestissimo incontro!" (Ruggiero, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Ma quando tornerai" (Alcina) | | • | "Tutta d'armate squadre" (Melisso, Ruggiero, Bradamante) | | • | Aria: "Sta nell'ircana pietrosa tana" (Ruggiero) | | • | "Vanne tu seco ancora" (Melisso, Bradamante) | | • | Aria: "All'alma fedel" (Bradamante) | | • | "Niuna forza lo arresta" (Oronte, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Mi restano le lagrime" (Alcina) | | • | Coro: "Sin per le vie del sole" (Coro) | | • | "Già vicino è 'l momento di cangiar" (Oberto, Alcina) | | • | Aria: "Barbara! Io ben lo so" (Oberto) | | • | "Le lusinghe, gl'inganni" (Bradamante, Alcina, Ruggiero) | | • | Terzetto: "Non è amor, né gelosia" (Alcina, Bradamante, Ruggiero) | | • | "Prendi, e vivi" (Ruggiero, Oronte) | | • | Coro: "Dall'orror di notte cieca" (Coro) | | • | Entrée | | • | Tamburino | | • | Coro: "Dopo tante amare pene" (Coro) |
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Product Description
Alan Curtis, lauded by Opera as one of our finest conductors of Baroque opera, illumines Handel s masterpiece, Alcina, by casting, as heroine, the brilliant Joyce DiDonato. Since Alcina is historically dared by virtuosic sopranos like Sutherland and Battle, this innovative recording with a mezzo is a must-have not just for Alcina freaks but all who adore sensational vocalism. As Handel did in his time, Curtis arrays our era s finest Baroque singers such as Maite Beaumont and Karina Gauvin in supporting roles around his star. With this electrifying Alcina, first ever studio recording of the rarely heard Ezio and Rolando Villazón s new album, Handel Year 2009 is being exceptionally well feted by Deutsche Grammophon.
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Curtis and his crew have outdone themselves again! May 21, 2009
Baroque and opera freak (Hong Kong)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This being the Handel commemoration year, we Handel lovers are really being bathed in bliss with all these new Handel recordings, and we were also treated to the re-release in one box of six spectacular earlier recordings of Handel's operas by Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco on Virgin Classics -- the oldest going back 30 years!. Having spent the last couple of days listening in amazement to some of those earlier recordings, I could not resist putting on the new Alcina recording as soon as it arrived. I really didn't think that it would be possible for Curtis to do even better than his recent recording of Tolemeo, which (with Gauvin and Hallenberg) certainly outdid his already excellent previous recording of Floridante (with the all-star cast of Mijanovic, DiDonato, Invernizzi, Rostorf-Zamir and Priante). But on my first listening of Alcina, first of all it was obvious that this is the best performance that DiDonato has ever done -- she has finally fully found her ideal persona. And it may well be Gauvin's finest performance to date as well. The rich brightness of the sound comes right out of the HiFi and into your listening space as if the singers (and the musicians) were actually right there in your living room. Maite Beaumont -- a name totally new to me -- is also absolutely superb. And so is another new discovery -- the tenor Kobie van Rensburg. And helped by the fact that this is one of Handel's finest operas, the whole recording just reverberates with the consummate sound of an obvious all-time classic recording. People will still be listening to this in a hundred years -- though I won't be around to enjoy the verification of my prediction. That's OK -- I WILL be around to verify my prediction that it will win Opera Recording of the Year. While there are many great Handelian musicians, and quite a few great Handel conductors, it is obvious that Curtis has snatched the first prize in the competition to make the best recordings in this glorious 250th-anniversary Handel year. And now our next treat is Ezio! You will not believe DiDonato on this recording, who steals the stage even from Renee Fleming's recording of the same part.
Another triumph for Joyce DiDonato April 27, 2009
J. Luis Juarez Echenique (Mexico City)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Alcina, Giulio Cesare, Ariodante and Orlando are Handel's greatest operas, and thanks to Alan Curtis and a quite formidable cast, here we have a winner. Alcina has been lucky on records, it was the first Handel opera to be recorded both with famous stars and with all the roles sung in the original registers, the 1961 DECCA recording with Sutherland, Berganza and Freni; then EMI gave us in 1985 the first recording with period instruments, and some 10 years ago ERATO was at hand in Paris to record some memorable performances at the Palais Garnier with both, opera stars and period instruments, boasting Renée Fleming, Susan Graham and Natalie Dessay in the leading roles and the exquisite musicians of Les Arts Florissants under William Christie in the pit. It was the hottest ticket in Paris at the time and listening to the recording you will see why. The new Archiv recording, much better than the Rodelinda with the same team, is a good match for the ERATO version. Joyce DiDonato, surprisingly singing soprano, is glorious in the title role. Her Alcina is memorable as an interpretation and as a piece of magnificent singing. I'm sure, in years to come, this recording will be cited as some of DiDonato's finest work. Less well known is Maite Beaumont, but she sings a virile and secure Ruggiero, perhaps not as individual as Susan Graham, but very good indeed. Karina Gauvin covers herself in glory in "Tornami a vagheggiar", not even Joan Sutherland would dare to steal the aria from her. Il Complesso Barocco is as stylish and elegant as ever, and Alan Curtis obviously loves the piece. Some think that the ERATO recording is too slow, and are uncomfortable with the opulent tones of Renée Fleming, but I think that William Christie, being the great opera conductor that he is, knows better than anyone how to work the drama of the piece. His conducting is a little more passionate and taut than Curtis', and it must be remembered: it is a live recording, with the pros and cons that come with it. I love both recordings and feel lucky to own them both. You should own at least one.
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