Handel: Eternal Heaven
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Eternal Heaven
Léa Desandre (mezzo) Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor) / Jupiter, Thomas Dunford
[ Erato / Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 9 December 2022
Lutenist Thomas Dunford's first project for Warner Classics is a complete Handel programme with his Ensemble Jupiter, and his longstanding musical partners Lea Desandre and lestyn Davies. The album stems from Dunford's desire to bring together these two sublime voices and tell a love story through Handel's most beautiful spiritual music. During the pandemic, Thomas and Lea went through Handel's entire English-language oeuvre to build a narrative Dunford has dubbed 'a Baroque West Side Story'. The album features arias from Semele, Theodora, Saul, Susanna, Esther, and more.
Tracks:
1 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74: "Eternal Source of Light Divine"
2 Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "With Darkness Deep, As Is My Woe" (Theodora)
3 The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay" (Hercules)
4 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: "Joys of Freedom" (Dejanira, Iole)
5 Theodora, HWV 68, Act 1: "As with Rosy Steps the Morn" (Irene)
6 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: "Despair No More Shall Wound Me" (Athamas)
7 Solomon, HWV 67, Act 3: "Will the Sun Forget to Streak" (Queen of Sheba)
8 Susanna, HWV 66, Act 3: "To My Chaste Susanna's Praise" (Joacim, Susanna)
9 Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" (David)
10 Joseph and His Brethren, HWV 59, Act 3: "Prophetic Raptures Swell My Breast" (Asenath)
11 Theodora, HWV 68, Act 3: "Thither Let Our Hearts Aspire!" (Theodora, Didymus)
12 Suite No. 4 in D minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande
13 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: "Prepare, Then, Ye Immortal Choir" (Semele, Ino)
14 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: "Hence, Iris, Hence Away" (Juno)
15 The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71, Act 3: "Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect Me" (Beauty)
16 Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Pt. 1: "Fly from the Threat'ning Vengeance, Fly!"
17 Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: "You've Undone Me" (Ino, Athamas)
18 Esther, HWV 50B, Act 2: "Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?" (Esther, Ahasuerus)
19 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: "No, No, I'll Take No Less" (Semele)
20 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: "But Hark, the Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round" (Ino)
21 Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "To Thee Thy Glorious Son of Worth" (Theodora, Didymus)
