Sandrine Piau - Between heaven & earth (Handel Arias)
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Artist: Sandrine PiauPerformer: Sandrine Piau
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina
Performer: Paolo Ballanti
Performer: Alberto Guerra
Performer: Marcello Gatti
Performer: Emiliano Rodolfi
Performer: Molly Marsh
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-29
Music Label: Naive
Soundtracks:
- La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47: Aria: Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno
- Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: Recitative: O Thou bright Sun!
- Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: Aria: With darkness deep as is my woe
- Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Song for St Cecilia's Day) for soloists, chorus & orchestra, HWV 76: Aria: What passion cannot Music raise
- Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Aria: Rejoice greatly
- Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: Largo
- Alexander Balus, oratorio, HWV 65: Aria: O take me from this hateful light
- Alexander Balus, oratorio, HWV 65: Accompagnato: Calm thou my soul
- Alexander Balus, oratorio, HWV 65: Aria: Convey me to some peaceful shore
- Joseph and His Brethren, oratorio, HWV 59: Aria: Prophetic raptures swell my breast
- L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pastoral Ode), oratorio, HWV 55: Duet: As steals the morn upon the night
- Solomon, oratorio, HWV 67: Symphony 'The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'
- L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pastoral Ode), oratorio, HWV 55: Accompagnato: First and chief on golden wing
- L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pastoral Ode), oratorio, HWV 55: Aria: Sweet bird
- Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3/2, HWV 313: Largo
- Samson, oratorio, HWV 57: Aria: Let the bright seraphims
- Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a: Accompagnato: Pure del cielo
- Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a: Aria: Tu del Ciel ministro eletto
Music reviews of Between heaven & earth (Handel Arias)
Music Review: Handel - Between Heaven and Earth, by Sandrine Piau
Rating: 5 Stars
The Queen has arrived from Sheba and she is Sandrine Piau.
The album is called "Between Heaven and Earth" and is an all-oratorio recital. There are only 3 instrumental tracks, but they rock - the Queen of Sheba never arrived with such zest, and the other 2 are perfectly timed and placed to let you recover from the emotions stirred by the arias.
(Another oratorio recital, by Karina Gauvin, has great singing but soporific playing)
From the first trumpet call of "Disseratevi, o porte d'Averno", you sit up and take notice. Piau's voice is not the strongest, but she knows how to play this aria. Expressively, she beats the competition and makes me wish Accademia Bizantina would record (yet another) 'La Resurrezione'. Or any other oratorio, for that matter.
Every song's tempo is perfectly judged, the singing exalted or pathetic as required, and the playing is top notch. I dare you not to be moved to tears by the 'Alexander Balus' excerpts starting with "O take me from this hateful light" to "Convey me to some peaceful shore".
Though I prefer King's very slow tempo for "As steals the morn", this version's singing is the best I've heard. That song is one of the most beautiful ever written (by anyone), and it shows.
You might want to check out her album Opera seria Sandrine Piau - Handel Opera Seria or the cheaper re-issue Haendel, Opera Seria with Christophe Rousset, a Must for Baroque Opera lovers
If you don't have this disc, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ?
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