Le Vie (from Alcina)

Basé sur les partitions vocales Bärenreiter, ces trois volumes contiennent quelques-uns des airs les plus connus de Haendel pour mezzo-soprano/contralto, ténor et basse, avec quelques numéros de qualité musicale tout aussi élevé moins connus. Les arias dans ces volumes contiennent des oeuvres de période de trente ans de Haendel comme un compositeur d'opéra à Londres et donnent une idée de la variété de ce vaste répertoire. Le arias afficher différentes caractéristiques techniques distinctive et sont souvent présentés avec le récitatif précédent ou, dans quelques cas, dans le contexte d'une scène entière. Les arias apparaissent dans l'ordre chronologique des opéras. Les préfaces par Donald Burrows contiennent des notes détaillées sur les chanteurs de Haendel et le contexte des arias des opéras.- Sur la base des partitions vocales Urtext de la Halle Handel Edition- Détail préfaces (Eng / Ger) en menant Handel expert Donald Burrows- Traductions de l'Italian Arias (Eng / Ger) texteRécitatifs et arias pour ténor () à partir de:Alcina, Ariodante, Ezio, Lothaire, Rodelinda, Rodrigo, Tamerlano / Tenor

13 selected arias from early baroque to classic-A clearly defined theme: strong triumphant but also forsaken and suffering protagonists all of royal blood have their say in a series of arias from the early Baroque up to the early Classical period that cover an enormous range of musical soul searching and character-drawing. It was to be an attractive mixture of the well-known and unknown for a new CD project with II Complesso Barocco - Arias with which the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato could show all facets of her mastry. Alan Curtis pioneer of historical performance practice outstanding interpreter and musicologist set out to find unknown treasures for her that alongside the highlights of therepertoire also provide for surprises.Joyce DiDonato and Alan Curtis' Drama Queens became an exciting foray through two centuries of opera history from the dawn of the young genre in the early seventeenth up to the end of the eighteenth century in which famous aria by Monteverdi ('Disprezzata Regina' from L'incoronazione di Poppea in the complete version) Cesti ('Intorno all'idol mio' from Orontea) Handel ('Ma Quando Tornerai' from Alcina 'Piangero La Sortie Mia' from Giulio Cesare 'Brilla nell'alma' from Alessandro) and Hasse 'Morte col fiero aspetto' from Antonio e Cleopatera) are combined with Giacomelli's original 'Sposa son disprezzata' (from Merope parodied by Vivaldi in his pasticco 'Bajazet' and splendid finds by Orlandini (Da Torbida Procella' and 'Col Versar Barbaro Il Sangue' from Berenice) Keiser ('Lasciami Piangere' from Fredegunda 'Geloso Sospetto' from Octavia) and Porta ('Madre Diletta abbracciami' from Ifigenia in Aulide). Hadyn's 'Vedi se t'amo' from Armida in a transposition that is more comfortable for a mezzo-soprano concludes the program.The arias in the present edition were newly edited in some cases for the first time for the CD project. As the first volume of the 'Complesso Barocco Edition' it marks the beginning of a collaboration between Alan Curtis and Boosey & Hawkes within