- ReleaseProduct
- Handel: Ombra cara
- Artist
- Bejun Mehta, Freiburger Barockorchester and René Jacobs
- Label
- Harmonia Mundi
- Catalogue Number
- HMA1902077
- Release Date
- November 16, 2010
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Available: July 7, 2017
If Handel's arias enjoy such success today, perhaps it is because they lie at the intersection between past and present, light and shadow. They might very well illustrate on their own the entire range of possibilities offered by the voices of his time. In his first recital on harmonia mundi, Bejun Mehta has chosen most of the ‘hits' on this CD from the repertoire of the famous castrato Senesino. From shadow (‘Ombra cara') to light (‘Sento la gioia'), who better than René Jacobs to accompany him in his programme?
- 1 Amadigi di Gaula (1715): Aria Sento la gioia (III, 6) 4:39
- 2 Agrippina (1709): Otton, Otton 1:18
- 3 Agrippina (1709): Aria Voi, che udite il mio lamento (II, 5) 6:02
- 4 Riccardo primo, re d'Inghilterra (1727): Aria Agitato da fiere tempeste (I, 6) 4:05
- 5 Tolomeo, re d'Egitto (1728): Recitativo Che più si tarda omai / Accompagnato Inumano fratel 2:09
- 6 Tolomeo, re d'Egitto (1728): Aria Stille amare (III, 6) 5:32
- 7 Orlando (1733): Act II, Scene 11, Accompagnato "Ah! Stigie larve" / Arioso "Già latra Cerbero" / Accompagnato "Ma la furia" / Aria "Vaghe pupille" 8:13
- 8 Rodrigo (1707): Passacaille (Ouverture) 4:38
- 9 Radamisto, HWV 12: Act II, Scene 2, Aria "Ombra cara di mia sposa" 9:31
- 10 Rodelinda (1725): Fra tempeste funeste (II, 4) 4:46
- 11 Rodelinda (1725): Con rauco mormorio (II, 5) 7:12
- 12 Orlando (1733): Act I, Scene 9, Recitativo "T'ubbidirò, crudele" / Aria "Fammi combattere" 3:54
- 13 Sosarme, HWV 30: Act II, Duetto, "Per le porte del tormento" 9:38