CD 1:
Carlo Pollarolo:
Ariodante - Sinfonia, Serba le belle lagrime

George Frideric Handel:
Giulio Cesare, HWV 17 - Da tempeste il legno infranto
Ottone, HWV 15 - E tale Otton?, Falsa immagine
Alessandro, HWV 21 - Solitudini amate, Placa l’alma
Tolomeo, HWV 25 - Elisa che ricerchi, Voglio amore

Johann Adolph Hasse:
Dalisa - Se fosse il mio diletto

Nicola Porpora:
Poro - Son prigioniera d’amore

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini:
Nerone - Stelle, tiranne stelle

Antonio Vivaldi:
Scanderbeg, RV 732 - Fra catene ognor penando, Nelle mie selve natie

CD 2:
George Frideric Handel:
Scipione, HWV 20 - Scoglio d’immota fronte
Admeto, HWV 22 - Gelosia, spietata Aletto
Riccardo Primo, HWV 23 - Il volo cosi fido al dolce
Alessandro, HWV 21 - Alla sua gabbia d’oro

Pietro Torri:
Amadis di Grecia - La sua disperazione, Se a ammollire il crudo amante

Leonardo Leo:
Il Ciro Riconosciuto (1739 Carnivale version) - Quel nome se ascolto

Giovanni Bononcini:
Astianatte - Sento che gia il pensier, Deh! lascia o core, Menuet, Ascolta o figlio

Leonardo Vinci (arr. Handel):
L’Elpidia, HWV A1 - Dea triforme, astro fecondo

Johann Adolph Hasse:
Artaserse (1740 Dresden Version) - Mi credi spietata?

Attilio Ariosti:
Caio Marzio Coriolano - Rendi al Padre in me la figlia

Maurice Greene:
La Liberta Cantata (Aria di camera)

Handel’s Queens features some of the most exquisite pieces of music written by G.F. Handel and his contemporaries for the two finest singers of the eighteenth century, Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni. Often wrongfully framed as rivals, these dazzling new recordings with Mary Bevan and Lucy Crowe reveal the distinctive yet versatile talent of the Italian vocalists.

Led by London Early Opera Director, Bridget Cunningham, Handel’s Queens features fifteen world premiere recordings, and serves an example of the group’s dedication to imaginative programming and outstanding period performance that places them at the forefront of baroque research.

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Recorded in St Augustine’s Church, Kilburn, London from 3rd to 6th September 2018 and on 4th & 5th February 2019. Flemish ravelment two manual harpsichord after Blanchet c 1710 based on Ioannes Ruckers 1628, built by Andrew Wooderson, Bexley, 1999.