Release Date: 26 April 2024
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917297324
Genres:
Classical  Vocal  
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Description
The debut album by young countertenor Oscar Verhaar showcases eight arias drawn from Handel's English oratorios.
Freedom is a dominant theme in the English oratorios of Georg Friedrich Handel. These grand works are mostly based on biblical stories that deal with resistance, suppression, captivity and, finally, freedom. In his oeuvre we find impressive slave choruses and many arias about (the lack of) freedom, eight of which are presented on this album.As a versatile early music singer, countertenor Oscar Veraar has been performing major works by composers such as Bach and Handel next to lesser-known music from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. His interest in performance practice also leads him to do much of the required musicological research for these works. In this recording he can benefit from the invaluable support of an experienced orchestra like La Sfera Armoniosa, conducted by Mike Fentross.
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. All danger disdaining
- 2. Return, O God of hosts
- 3. Fury
- 4. I. Ouverture Susanne
- 5. II. Staccato e non troppo allegro
- 6. In the battle
- 7. O sacred oracles of Truth I. Largo un poco piano
- 8. O sacred oracles of Truth II. Accompagnato
- 9. O sacred oracles of Truth III. Largo e pomposo
- 10. Joseph and his Brethren I. Andante
- 11. Joseph and his Brethren II. Larghetto
- 12. Joseph and his Brethren III. Allegro
- 13. Joseph and his Brethren IV. Menuet Larghetto e piano
- 14. Be Firm
- 15. O Lord, whose mercies numberless
- 16. Up the dreadful steep ascending
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