Le Temps des Castrats

Le Temps des Castrats
Kowalski, Bowman, Zaeppfell, Esswood, Jacobs, Deller, Brett, Chance, Christofellis, Visse, Raggin, Lesne, Moreschi
EMI Classics 5 55054-2
EMI Classics 191 334 [France]

Content:

    George Frideric Handel: Serse
  1. Frondi tenere...Ombra mai fu

    2. George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare
  2. Upstart, barbarian and traitor

    3. George Frideric Handel: The Choice of Hercules
  3. Lead goddess, lead the way

    4. George Frideric Handel: Saul
    O Lord, whose mercies numberless
    George Frideric Handel: Admeto
  4. Amor, qual nuova fiamma...La tigre arde di sdegno

    5. George Frideric Handel: Messiah
  5. He was despised

    6. Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen
  6. Hark, how all things with one sound rejoice

    7. Henry Purcell: Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1692
  7. Sweetness of nature Love's Goddess Sure

    8. Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor
  8. Agnus Dei

    9. Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio
  9. Schliesse, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder

    10. Johann Adolf Hasse: Cleofide
  10. Se trove perdono

    11. Johann Adolf Hasse: Cleofide
  11. Dov'è? si affreti

    12. Porpora
  12. Solfeggio por Farinelli

    13. Antonio Caldara: Cantata
  13. Soffri, mio caro Alcino

    14. Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  14. Che farò senza Euridice

    15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto
  15. Va, va, l'error mio palesa

    16. Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
  16. Crucifixus

Playing time: 64' 03"

Performers and date of original release:
[1] Jochen Kowalski [1987]
[2] James Bowman [19??]
[3] Alain Zaeppfel [1984]
[4] Paul Esswood.[1981]
[5] René Jacobs [1978]
[6] Alfred Deller [1954], from HMV B 10682 [78 rpm] Handel: Messiah
[7] Alfred Deller [1954], from HMV C 4247 [78 rpm] Purcell: The Fairy Queen - King Richard II - Old Bachelor
[8] Charles Brett & James Bowman [1976]
[9] Charles Brett [19??]
[10] Michael Chance [1989]
[11] Dominique Visse [19??]
[12] Derek Lee Ragin [1987]
[13] Aris Christofellis [19??]
[14] Gérard Lesne [1991]
[15] Jochen Kowalski [1989]
[16] Jochen Kowalski [1987]
[17] Alessandro Moreschi [1902]

Date of release: 1994

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Comments:
Information from owned CD
This CD was later re-issued (1999) as HMV Classics 5 73 451-2 Art of the Countertenors, but the latter contains three tracks less ([2], [13], [17])

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Pierre-F. Roberge