Handel: Arie Per Basso - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Lorenzo Regazzo / naive Audio CD 2009 / OP 30472

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George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ˈhændəl/; baptised Georg Fried(e)rich Händel, German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩]; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age.

Tracklist:

siroe

1-5 Ouverture | Recitativo | Aria “Se il mio paterno amore” | Recitativo | Aria “Gelido in ogni vena”

orlando

6-7 Accompagnato | Aria “Sorge infausta una procella”

agrippina

8-10 Aria “Pur ritorno a rimirarvi” | Recitativo* | Arietta “Vieni, o cara”

serse

11-12 Recitativo | Arietta “Del mio caro Bacco amabile”

alcina

13-14 Ouverture — Musette — Menuet | Aria “Pensa a chi geme”

tamerlano

15 Aria “Amor da guerra e pace”

cantata “dalla guerra amorosa”

16-20 Recitativo | Aria “Non v’alletti un occhio nero” | Recitativo | Aria “La bellezza 6 com’un fiore” | Finale “Fuggite... a chi servo d’amor”

cantata “apollo e dafne”

21-22  Recitativo | Aria “Come rosa in su la spina”

• Bass - Lorenzo Regazzo
• Soprano - Gemma Bertagnolli
• Conductor - Rinaldo Alessandrini