Mitologia: Handel Arias & Duets

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Led by Curtis at the keyboard, soprano Christiane Karg and contralto Romina Basso drew inner character out of Handel’s score. Singing Orfeo’s aria, Karg floats a motionless straight tone – a... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: 88875199812
Label: Deutsche HM
Length: 69 minutes

Handel: Il Parnasso in festa, HWV 73: Già le furie vedo ancor

Work length1:44

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Il Parnasso in festa, HWV 73: Dopo d'aver perduto il caro bene (Accompagnato)

Work length0:53

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Il Parnasso in festa, HWV 73: Ho perso il caro bene

Work length6:40

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Semele, HWV 58: No, No, I'll Take No Less

Work length5:21

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60: Where Shall I Fly?

Work length5:54

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122: Felicissima quest'alma

Work length5:41

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Atalanta, HWV 35: Cara, nel tuo bel volto (Duetto)

Work length7:39

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Semele, HWV 58: Overture (Maestoso - Allegro - Adagio)

Work length7:16

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Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Semele, HWV 58: Gavotte

Work length2:44

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Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Semele, HWV 58: Come Zephyrs, Come

Work length5:57

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Arianna in Creta, HWV 32: Bell'idolo amato... Deh, Taci crudel (Rec. & Duetto)

Work length3:56

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Partenope, HWV 27: Voglio amare insin ch'io moro

Work length6:32

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Echegiate, festeggiate, Numi eterni, HWV 119: Echeggiate, festeggiate!

Work length3:56

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Handel: Echegiate, festeggiate, Numi eterni, HWV 119: Non più barbaro furore (Duetto)

Work length4:53

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Christiane Karg (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

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One of the very last recordings of baroque-pioneer conductor Alan Curtis (1934-2015), a supreme Handelian conductor and scholar. Alan Curtis, described by the New York Times’ as “one of the great scholar-musicians of recent times”, conducts a brilliant cast including German soprano star Christiane Karg and the Italian mezzo soprano Romina Basso. Christiane Karg is one of those fascinating voices of our time. She is certainly one of today’s most interesting German singers with an international profile. Many of her recordings such as “Scene!”, “Heimliche Aufforderung” or “Portrait” (for Berlin Classics) have been internationally acclaimed and were big commecial successes. A selection of arias, duets and instrumental pieces from Handel masterworks such as Semele, Hercules, Partenope, a.o. With liner notes by the british Handel specialist Dr. David Vickers. Incl. a dedication by mystery writer DONNA LEON, who was a close friend to Alan Curtis. Booklet texts in three languages (German, English, French).

As a specialist of baroque repertoire, Romina Basso has featured on several prizewinner Naïve Vivaldi Edition recordings and recently on Baroque Divas and Pergolesi's Adriano in Siria for Decca, Lamento and Voces de Sefarad as solo albums. She has a warm, well-focused mezzo voice and a highly engaging acting style, an ideally dark voice.

Reviews

January 2017

Led by Curtis at the keyboard, soprano Christiane Karg and contralto Romina Basso drew inner character out of Handel’s score. Singing Orfeo’s aria, Karg floats a motionless straight tone – a vocal production unusual for her – over the band’s stumbling dotted rhythms, as sorrow alters Orfeo’s experience of time. As the sex kitten Semele, Karg is the essence of coquetry, wilfully refusing to follow the band

December 2016

As ever, [Karg] ‘lives’ each of the characters intensely: in the blanched, grief-etched tone she brings to Orfeo’s lament from Parnasso in festa, in Cupid’s seductive ‘’Come, Zephyrs, come’…[Basso’s] firm, slightly androgynous mezzo and fiery temperament immediately impress…she and Karg make vivid, well-matched duet partners…an enjoyable, unclichéd programme

January 2017

The best of the solo singing, too- Karg's skill and delicacy in Partenope's 'Voglio amare fin ch'io moro', or the definition and personality allied to centered tone in Basso's title aria from the Echeggiate cantata - represent a high standard regularly matched by Curtis and his players.

6th November 2016

Alan Curtis’s last recording gathers a miscellany from English and Italian vocal works under the rubric of “mythology”...Karg’s agile No, no, I’ll take no less, from Semele, and Basso’s Where shall I fly?, from Hercules, are brilliantly sung in excellent English.

Mitologia: Handel Arias & Duets

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