Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Sandrine Piau, Les Paladins
Conductor: Jérôme Correas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA765
Release: 2022
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Lotario, HWV 26: Aria “Scherza in mar la navicella”
02. Rinaldo, HWV 7a : Aria “Il vostro maggio”
03. Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17: Aria “Da tempeste”
04. Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6: I. Larghetto affetuoso
05. Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17: Recitativo “E pur così”
06. Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17: Aria “Piangerò la sorte mia”
07. Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6: II. Allegro
08. Lucrezia, HWV 45 : Aria “Alla salma infedel”
09. Alcina, HWV 34 : Aria “Ah! mio cor!”
10. Amadigi Di Gaulo, HWV 11 : Overture
11. Amadigi Di Gaulo, HWV 11 : Aria “Desterò dall’empia Dite”
12. Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 6: I. Larghetto e affettuoso
13. Alcina, HWV 34: Aria “Tornami a vagheggiar”
14. Alcina, HWV 34: Aria “Lascia ch’io pianga”
Handel is one of Sandrine Piau’s cult composers, and everyone has vivid memories of her magnificent Alcina live: “Where once I portrayed light-hearted, pirouetting heroines, this new album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women”.
“Queens, sorceresses, sirens… we were attracted by the musical and emotional intensity of the hopes, disappointments and sufferings of these women, not forgetting the malice or cruelty that they also know how to deploy”, continues Jérôme Correas, the soprano’s longstanding musical partner and conductor of Les Paladins. With Almirena, Cleopatra and Alcina, Handel explores all the facets of these defeated heroines, whose boldly delineated characters live once more in Sandrine Piau’s passionate interpretation.