A Royal Trio - Handel; Bononcini & Ariosti: Opera Arias

Bononcini, Giovanni Battista, Handel, George Frideric

Bates, David, La Nuova Musica, Zazzo, Lawrence

HMU 807590

A dazzling Royal trio. Founded in 1719 as the first opera company in the English-speaking world, the Royal Academy of Music commissioned and premièred some of the finest 18th-century operas, including Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Renowned American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo is joined by La Nuova Musica and David Bates for a snapshot of the Academy’s hits circa 1725 featuring arias by Handel, Ariosti and Bononcini. “The Musical Director (Bates) and countertenor (Zazzo) are a pairing made in Handel heaven” (The Guardian, concert review)

Works:
• Ariosti: Freme l'onda (from Il naufragio vicino)
• Ariosti: Spirate, o iniqui marmi...Voi d'un figlio tanto misero (from Coriolano)
• Ariosti: Vespasiano: Overture
• Bononcini, G B: Così stanco Pellegrino (from Crispo)
• Bononcini, G B: Per la gloria d'adorarvi (from Griselda)
• Bononcini, G B: Tigre piagata (from Muzio Scevola)
• Handel: Admeto: Ballo di Larve
• Handel: Orride larve ... Chiudetevi, miei lumi (from Admeto)
• Handel: Rompo i lacci (from Flavio)
• Handel: Tanti affanni (from Ottone)
• Handel: Va tacito e nascosto (from Giulio Cesare)
• Handel: Vivi, tiranno, io t'ho scampato (from Rodelinda)

SACD x 1

Harmonia Mundi

2014-08-20

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