Utwory na płycie:

• Handel: Radamisto, HWV 12a - Act 2 Sc. 1: Quando Mai, Spietata Sorte
• Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 - Act 2 Sc. 3: Mi Lusingha Il Dolce Affetto
• Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 - Act 2 Sc. 12: Verdi Prati
• Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 - Act 3 Sc. 3: Sta Nell'Ircana
• Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Act 1 Sc. 2: There In Myrtle Shades Reclined
• Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Act 1 Sc. 6: Cease, Ruler Of the Day, To Rise
• Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Act 3 Sc. 3: Where Shall I Fly?
• Handel: Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17 - Act 1 Sc. 8: Cara Speme, Questo Core
• Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33 - Act 1 Sc. 8: Con L'Ali Di Costanza
• Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33 - Act 2 Sc. 3: Scherza Infida
• Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33 - Act 3 Sc. 9: Dopo Notte

Radamisto HWV12a:
Quando mai, spietata sorte

Alcina HWV34:
Mi lusinga il dolce affetto
Verdi prati
Sta nell’Ircana

Hercules HWV60:
There in myrtle shades reclined
Cease, ruler of the day, to rise
Where shall I ?y?

Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV17:
Cara speme, questo core

Ariodante HWV33:
Con l’ali di costanza
Scherza in?da!
Dopo notte

Hyperion is delighted to present a tour de force from the supreme mezzo-soprano of today, Alice Coote, accompanied by The English Concert and Harry Bicket, making their Hyperion debut. Coote performs a selection of Handel’s greatest arias from opera and oratorio, employing an extraordinary range of vocal and dramatic colour, tone and emotion to produce triumphant and moving interpretations of these masterpieces.

Every piece is a highlight. Handel’s Italian operas are represented by his ?rst two Covent Garden operas, Alcina and the great tragedy Ariodante, and also Radamisto and Giulio Cesare in Egitto (perhaps Handel’s most popular opera today). Handel’s English oratorio Hercules contains music of utter beauty. Written to a libretto by Thomas Broughton based on Sophocles’ Trachiniae, it is a drama of sombre magni?cence. At its centre is the tragic ?gure of Hercules’ wife Dejanira, a role to rival Saul as a study in the corrosive power of jealousy. Little is known about the ‘Miss Robinson’ who created the part. But the music that Handel wrote for her suggests that she must have been a ?ne singing actress. Alice Coote’s powers in this direction are unrivalled today