Handel: Cantatas and Sonatas

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Release Date: 19th Aug 2016
Catalogue No: 95362
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 51 minutes

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Handel: Ah, che pur tropo e vero, HWV 77

Work length12:53

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Jorge Juan Marata
Recondita Armonia

Recitative. Ah, che pur troppo e vero

Track length1:05

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Aria. Col partir la bella Clori

Track length3:12

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Recitative. In solitaria parte

Track length0:43

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Aria. Care mura!

Track length1:51

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Recitative. Numi ingiusti spietati

Track length0:46

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Aria. Da che perso ho la mia Clori

Track length5:16

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Handel: Flute Sonata in B minor, Op 1 No 9b, HWV367b

Work length14:43

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Lixsania Fernández
Recondita Armonia

I. Largo (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length2:34

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II. Vivace (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length2:59

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III. Furioso (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length2:10

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IV. Adagio (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:24

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V. Alla breve (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:43

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VI. Andante (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length2:21

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VII. A tempo di Menuet (Arr. For viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:32

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Handel: Dolc' e pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109a

Work length7:56

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Jorge Juan Marata
Recondita Armonia

Aria. Dolce pur d'amor l'affanno

Track length5:11

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Recitative. Il viver sempre in pene

Track length0:38

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Aria. Se più non t'amo non ti doler

Track length2:07

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Handel: Oboe Sonata in f major, HWV 363a

Work length8:42

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Lixsania Fernández
Recondita Armonia

I. Adagio (Arr. Viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:53

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II. Allegro (Arr. Viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:52

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III. Adagio (Arr. Viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length2:36

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IV. Bourree angloise (Arr. Viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:14

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V. Menuetto (Arr. Viola da gamba and chamber ensemble)

Track length1:07

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Handel: Care selve, aure grate, HWV 88

Work length7:41

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Jorge Juan Marata
Recondita Armonia

Recitative. Care selve, aure grate

Track length0:40

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Aria. Ridite a Clori

Track length4:01

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Recitative. Se cangiar si potesse

Track length0:33

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Aria. Non ha forza nel mio petto

Track length2:27

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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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