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Handel: Arias

Alice Coote; Harry Bicket: The English Concert

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67979

Release Date:  01 September 2014

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571179797

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    Hyperion is delighted to present a tour de force from the supreme mezzo-soprano of today, Alice Coote, accompanied by The English Concert and Harry Bicket, making their Hyperion debut. Coote performs a selection of Handel’s greatest arias from opera and oratorio, employing an extraordinary range of vocal and dramatic colour, tone and emotion to produce triumphant and moving interpretations of these masterpieces.
    Every piece is a highlight. Handel’s Italian operas are represented by his first two Covent Garden operas, Alcina and the great tragedy Ariodante, and also Radamisto and Giulio Cesare in Egitto (perhaps Handel’s most popular opera today). Handel’s English oratorio Hercules contains music of utter beauty. Written to a libretto by Thomas Broughton based on Sophocles’ Trachiniae, it is a drama of sombre magnificence. At its centre is the tragic figure of Hercules’ wife Dejanira, a role to rival Saul as a study in the corrosive power of jealousy. Little is known about the ‘Miss Robinson’ who created the part. But the music that Handel wrote for her suggests that she must have been a fine singing actress. Alice Coote’s powers in this direction are unrivalled today.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. <i>Radamisto HWV12a</i> | <b>Quando mai, spietata sorte</b> [3'08]
      • 2. <i>Alcina HWV34</i> | <b>Mi lusinga il dolce affetto</b> [7'45]
      • 3. <i>Alcina HWV34</i> | <b>Verdi prati</b> [4'50]
      • 4. <i>Alcina HWV34</i> | <b>Stà nell Ircana</b> [6'00]
      • 5. <i>Hercules HWV60</i> | <b>There in myrtle shades reclined</b> [3'55]
      • 6. <i>Hercules HWV60</i> | <b>Cease, ruler of the day, to rise</b> [5'35]
      • 7. <i>Hercules HWV60</i> | <b>Where shall I fly? </b> [6'45]
      • 8. <i>Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV17</i> | <b>Cara speme, questo core</b> [5'55]
      • 9. <i>Ariodante HWV33</i> | <b>Con l ali di costanza</b> [5'42]
      • 10. <i>Ariodante HWV33</i> | <b>Scherza infida! </b> [11'41]
      • 11. <i>Ariodante HWV33</i> | <b>Dopo notte</b> [7'15]