Handel
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?
- Endless pleasure
- Scoglio d'immota fronte
- Quando spieghi i tuoi tormenti
- Ombra mai f?
- To fleeting pleasures make your court
- Lascia ch'io pianga
- Dunque, i lacci d'un volto...Ah! crudel
- Let the bright Seraphim
- V'adoro, pupille
- Da tempeste il legno infranto
- Ritorna, o caro e dolce mio tesoro
- Sommo rettor del cielo...D'una torbida sorgente
- Pensieri, voi mi tormentate
- Bel piacere ? godere fido amor!
- Calm thou my soul...Convey me to some peaceful shore
Music reviews of Handel
Music Review: An important voice serves Handel well
Rating: 5 Stars
Though it's true that Fleming's Italian is not that idiomatic, I find her very comfortable and at home in this repertoire, in fact much more so than in Puccini or Verdi, and quite frankly can anyone imagine the great Handel NOT liking her voice?. Let's not forget that Handel went to Italy to look for singers, not only for opera but also for oratorio. At some point he should have had enough of the likes of prim-and-proper Emma Kirkby. Certain roles like Alcina, Cleopatra and Rodelinda demand important voices, and singers with big personalities. The great failure of Rene Jacobs general excellent Giulio Cesare is his Cleopatra. Barbara Schlick is very good in Bach and church music, but the temptress Handel wanted is nowhere to be found; being a specialist in baroque music is not always a guarantee of success. Emma Kirkby herself would be a very poor Alcina or Cleopatra.
Fleming is probably not great in every aria, but she is certainly very, very good. My only complaint is that the extremely important recitatives were omitted, bad, bad idea, otherwise a fine hour of Handel with a lovely lady.
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Those who may have feared that Ren?e Fleming might approach Handel with a too-Romantic vocal attitude need not have; whether it's the leadership of the sympathetic, historically informed Harry Bicket, the sound of the spare but warm Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, plain good sense and musicianship, or any combination of these, here she offers sixteen arias in almost-impeccable Baroque fashion. I doubt whether sopranos of Handel's age had voices as plush as Ms Fleming's but she manages to keep her tone as light and as airy as possible in these selections, never leaning or swooping into an accompanying note in an "un-Baroque" manner, and the result is simply ravishing. The voice, of course, is almost unbelievably beautiful and agile, the technique impeccable, complete with a trill unmatchable in any soprano singing today. From the long-breathed lines of "O sleep why dost thou leave me" from Semele to the fireworks in Cleopatra's "Da tempeste.," with stops along the way at the famous "Ombra mai fu" and a complete rarity from the composer's Lotario, this CD is just breathtaking. Brava Fleming--and bravo Harry Bicket! Oh, yes--bravo Handel! --Robert LevineGeneral CDs
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