Utwory na płycie:

• Lotario - Furie del crudo averno
• Lotario - Arma lo sguardo
• Lotario - Quel superbo
• Farnace - Forse, o caro, in questi accenti
• Berenice - Gelo, avvampo
• Floridante - Notte cara
• Orlando furioso - Amorose ai rai del sole
• Orlando furioso - Vorresti amor da me
• Farnace - Lascia di sospirar
• Radamisto - Son contenta
• Radamisto - Quando mai spietata sorte
• Orlando furioso - Asconderò il mio sdegno
• Orlando furioso - Se cresce un torrente
• Aria for mezzosoprano, strings and basso continuo, RV 697 - Se lento ancora il fulmine

Georg Friedrich Händel:
Lotario:
Furie del crudo averno
Arma lo sguardo
Quel superbo

Berenice - Gelo, avvampo
Floridante - Notte cara
Radamisto:
Son contenta
Quando mai spietata sorte

Antonio Vivaldi:
Farnace - Forse, o caro, in questi accenti

Orlando furioso:
Amorose ai rai del sole
Vorresti amor da me
Ascondero il mio sdegno
Se cresce un torrente

Aria for mezzosoprano, strings and basso continuo, RV 697 - Se lento ancora il fulmine

In all other respects, the primadonnas, the title figures and central heroines, stand at the centre of the spotlight. Handel and Vivaldi also had a special affection for the „women in the shadows“ - for the queens, the servants or the spurned lovers, mostly sung in female alto voice. They were given breathtakingly beautiful arias: full of lament, sensuality, vengefulness or fury …

In recent years, the German contralto Julia Böhme has developed into one of the most in-demand performers of 17th and 18th century music. Her vocal elegance and expressiveness, historically sourced style and unique timbre are just as characteristic of her as a performer as her dramatic intensity and versatility. Concerts and opera productions have taken her to the Dresden Music Festival, the Vienna Musikverein, Prague, Leipzig, Halle, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruges, Versailles, the Laieszhalle Hamburg and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

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Recording: Festsaal des Palais im Großen Garten, Dresden (Germany), April 2015