Handel Goes Wild (Deluxe Edition)
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Label: Erato
Cat No: 9029581170
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st September 2017
Contents
Works
Alcina, HWV34Artists
Nuria Rial (soprano)Valer Sabadus (countertenor)
Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet)
L’Arpeggiata
Conductor
Christina PluharWorks
Alcina, HWV34Artists
Nuria Rial (soprano)Valer Sabadus (countertenor)
Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet)
L’Arpeggiata
Conductor
Christina PluharAbout
George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L’Arpeggiata. The title of this new album refers first and foremost to the imaginative treatment his music receives from L’Arpeggiata, but Christina Pluhar reminds us that “Handel must have been pretty wild himself,” quoting this famous anecdote: “At a rehearsal for his opera Ottone, when the celebrated soprano Francesca Cuzzoni refused to sing the aria ‘Falsa immagine’, he became so furious that he grabbed her round the waist and threatened to throw her out of the window.”
Fortunately, the ‘wildness’ on this album is purely pleasurable. Handel Goes Wild is in the beguiling vein of Music for a While: Improvisations on Henry Purcell, released by L’Arpeggiata on Erato in 2014. Praising that album, BBC Music Magazine wrote: “Long experienced in fusing Baroque with jazz-inspired performance styles, L’Arpeggiata’s approach breathes new life into the Restoration composer, whose ground basses are akin to riffs, his melodies folk-like in their raw simplicity ... Baroque instruments and a jazz-style combo mix to intriguing effect.”
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