Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice, Vol. 2

 
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice, Vol. 2
Christopher Purves (baritone), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 27 July 2018

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Christopher Purves is renowned for both the powerful sense of dramatic conviction he brings to everything he undertakes, and for a vocal technique which must be heard to be believed. From Handel's early cantata to selections from Italian opera and English oratorio, this is a recital from a very special singer indeed.

GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Recital

"This superb follow-up [to Vol. 1] makes you wonder anew at the composer's inventive variety…Purves is surely unique among today's Anglophone singers in fusing an easily produced high baritone, by turns mellifluous and incisive, with a clean, resonant bass register… … Ever alive to texture and subtleties of colour, Arcangelo on their own give a fresh, spirited account of one of the Op 3 Concerti grossi." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2018

"It is the oratorio excerpts that are to my mind the more successful, the direct robustness and the rhetorical character of an air such as 'See, raging flames' (Joshua) suiting Purves's bold, confident singing very well...Purves brings considerable sensitivity to the music where required and Arcangelo provides a tidy version of the Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 4." Opera

Tracks:

Gelido in ogni vena (Cosroe) (Act 3 Scene 4, Aria from Siroe, Re di Persia, HWV24) [5'02]
Turn not, O Queen, thy face away (Haman) (Act 3 Scene 2 No 2, Arioso from Esther, HWV50a) [2'49]
When storms the proud (Abner) (Act 1 Scene 1, Air from Athalia, HWV52) [3'11]
Oh, memory! (Gobrias) (Act 1 Scene 6 No 9a, Accompagnato from Belshazzar, HWV61) [0'45]
Opprest with never-ceasing grief (Gobrias) (Act 1 Scene 6 No 9b, Air from Belshazzar, HWV61) [4'01]
Nicola Porpora: È ver che all'amo intorno (Cesare) (Act 3 Scene 4, Aria from Catone, HWVA7) [7'55]

Concerto grosso in F major HWV315 Op 3/4a [10'32]
Andante - Allegro - Lentamente [3'56]
Andante [1'56]
Allegro [1'32]
Minuetto alternativo [3'08]

Piangi pur (Araspe) (Act 2 Scene 6, Aria from Tolomeo, Re di Egitto, HWV25) [2'59]
Ah, canst thou but prove me! (Abner) (Act 2 Scene 1, Air from Athalia, HWV52) [3'40]

Nell'africane selve HWV136a
No 1, Recitativo: Nell'africane selve [1'34]
No 2, Aria: Langue, trema, e prigioniero [6'31]
No 3, Recitativo: Nice, là fra confine [1'19]
No 4, Aria: Chiedo amore [4'29]

The walls are levell'd (Caleb) (Part 2 No 4, Recitative from Joshua, HWV64) [0'30]
See, the raging flames arise (Caleb) (Part 2 No 5, Air from Joshua, HWV64) [3'18]
How art thou fall'n from thy height! (Haman) (Act 3 Scene 2 No 5, Air from Esther, HWV50a)[6'37]
Tu di pietà mi spogli (Cosroe) (Act 2 Scene 7, Aria from Siroe, Re di Persia, HWV24) [4'27]
Vieni, o cara (Argante) (Act 1 Scene 4, Aria from Rinaldo, HWV7a) [4'15]
Shall I in Mamre's fertile plain (Caleb) (Part 3 No 4, Air from Joshua, HWV64) [3'07]