Orlando (Complete opera)
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Orlando (Complete opera)
Bejun Mehta, Sophie Karthäuser, Kristina Hammarström, Sunhae Im / B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
[ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 1 August 2014
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Grammy award winning conductor Rene Jacobs, "the most exciting opera conductor of the day" (Münchner Merkur), leads the dynamic B'Rock Orchestra Ghent and an outstanding cast in Handel's most spectacular and ravishingly beautiful creations, Orlando.
"Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im brings youthful playfulness to the role of Dorinda...All is well paced under René Jacobs's direction with a fine contribution from the B'Rock orchestra." (BBC Music)
"This Orlando is the most dramatic on disc - although not all will love Jacobs's extremes of slow and fast tempi, or the "baroque" sound effects. Bejun Mehta's psychotic titular antihero is superb throughout, and I've never heard a more thrilling - or sinister - Zoroastro than Konstantin Wolff, while Sophie Karthäuser and Kristina Hammarström blend raptly as the lovers" (Sunday Times)
