Jorge Juan Morata, Lixsania Fernández, Recondita Armonia Ensemble - Handel: Cantatas & Sonatas (2016) [Hi-Res]

• Title: Handel: Cantatas & Sonatas
  
• Year Of Release: 2016
  
• Label: Brilliant Classics
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +Booklet
  
• Total Time: 00:52:05
  
• Total Size: 291 / 545 mb
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Tracklist

01. Ah, che pur troppo è vero in D Minor, HWV 77: I. Recitative. Ah, che pur troppo è vero
02. Ah, che pur troppo è vero in D Minor, HWV 77: II. Aria. Col partir la bella Clori
03. Ah, che pur troppo è vero in D Minor, HWV 77: III. Recitative. In solitaria parte
04. Ah, che pur troppo è vero in D Minor, HWV 77: IV. Aria. Care mura!
05. Ah, che pur troppo è vero in D Minor, HWV 77: V. Recitative. Numi ingiusti spietati
06. Ah, che pur troppo è vero in D Minor, HWV 77: Vi. Aria. Da che perso ho la mia Clori
07. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: I. Largo
08. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: II. Vivace
09. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: III. Furioso
10. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: IV. Adagio
11. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: V. Alla breve
12. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: VI. Andante
13. Sonata in B Minor, HWV 367a: VII. A tempo di menuet
14. Dolce pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109: I. Aria. Dolce pur d'amor l'affanno
15. Dolce pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109: II. Recitative. Il viver sempre in pene
16. Dolce pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109: III. Aria. Se piú non t'amo non ti doler
17. Sonata in F Major, HWV 363a: I. Adagio
18. Sonata in F Major, HWV 363a: II. Allegro
19. Sonata in F Major, HWV 363a: III. Adagio
20. Sonata in F Major, HWV 363a: IV. Bourrée angloise
21. Sonata in F Major, HWV 363a: V. Menuetto
22. Care selve, aure grate in G Minor, HWV 88: I. Recitativo. Care selve, aure grate
23. Care selve, aure grate in G Minor, HWV 88: II. Aria. Ridite a clori
24. Care selve, aure grate in G Minor, HWV 88: III. Recitativo. Se cangiarsi potesse
25. Care selve, aure grate in G Minor, HWV 88: IV. Aria. Non ha forza nel mio petto

This attractive album focuses on the young and prolific Handel during his years of residence in Italy, the most celebrated product of which is his setting of Dixit dominus from 1707. However, at the invitation of various aristocratic patrons in Rome and Florence around this time, he also composed many secular cantatas which have only in recent years received their due attention on record; not least thanks to Brilliant Classics, who have published four volumes of Italian cantatas with the Contrasto Armonico ensemble (BC93999, BC94000, BC94230 and BC94257).

This album from another historically informed Italian ensemble is not a rival but complement to them. Ah, che pur troppo è vero (HWV 77) was composed in Florence around 1707, and Care selve, aure grate (HWV 88) was written in Rome between 1707 and 1708. A final contribution to the genre, Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno (HWV 109b), was produced in London around 1718, by which time Handel was the toast of London. All the cantatas tell tales of love found and lost, with pining arias and sprightly recitative, already distinguished by the powerful match of melody to mood and superb understanding of the voice that would make Handel the opera composer of his age.

The cantatas are interleaved with two instrumental sonatas. The obbligato instrument in mind was originally an oboe (HWV 363a) and recorder (HWV 367a) but their parts are taken here by a viola da gamba. HWV 367 is the most sophisticated of Handel’s chamber sonatas and has long been a favourite of flautists, but is here lent an unusual, mellower character by the lower string instrument. HWV 363 is also in four movements, more dance-like in character, and concluding with an irrepressibly lively Bourrée.

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