Handel: Ombra mai fù

Georg Friedrich Handel
Ombra mai fù: airs, scènes célèbres et musique instrumentale
Andreas Scholl & Akademie für alte Musik Berlin
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1685 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 1685 [CD]

Contents:

    Georg Friedrich Handel

    Admeto, Rè di Tessaglia (London, 1727)

  1. Overture
  2. Ballo di Larve
  3. Recitativo-accompagnato "Orride larve"
  4. Atto I, scena 1: Aria "Chiudetevi, miei lumi"
  5. Serse (London, 1738)

  6. Sinfonia
  7. Recitativo "Frondi tenere"
  8. Atto I, scena 1: Aria "Ombra mai fù"
  9. Giulio Cesare in Egitto (London, 1724)

  10. Atto II, scena 2: Aria "Se in fiorito prato"
  11. Gigue
  12. Atto I, scena 9: Aria "Va tacito"
  13. Radamisto, suite instrumentale (London, 1720)

  14. Passacaille
  15. Gigue
  16. Passepied
  17. Rigaudon
  18. Rodelinda, Regina de Langobardi (London, 1725)

  19. Sinfonia - Recitativo "Pompe vano di morte"
  20. Atto I, scena 6: Aria "Dove sei"
  21. Sinfonia
  22. Accompagnato "Si, l'infida consorte"
  23. Atto I, scena 11: Aria "Confusa si miri"
  24. Alcina (London, 1735)

  25. Atto II, scena 1: Aria "Verdi prati"
  26. Alexander's Feast, concerto grosso (London, 1736)

  27. Allegro
  28. Largo
  29. Allegro
  30. Andante non presto

Playing time: 75' 21"

Performers:
Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)
Akademie für alte Musik Berlin

Recording site and date:
Berlin-Oberschöneweide, Christuskirche, Germany [10/1998]
Rel. 1999 (HMC), 2002 (HMX)

Excerpts:
[6]-[7] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8174 L'Angleterre baroque - Baroque England / Un siècle de musique anglaise (1650-1760) - Masks, Anthems & Semi-operas
[7] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles" HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (y., #-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

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Pierre-F. Roberge