Handel at the Opera

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Handel's music is never more winsome than when it's written for special occasions, not least operas. Several of the items in this programme are arias, but they aren't sung. Like today's musicals,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Feb 2000
Catalogue No: CHAN0650
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 66 minutes

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Excerpt, Handel: Alcina

Work length10:29

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Overture

Track length3:22

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Musette. Un peu lentement

Track length1:51

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Gavotte

Track length0:52

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Sarabande. Gavotte (Reprise)

Track length2:42

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Minuet

Track length1:42

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Handel: Alcina, HWV 34, Act II Scene 12

Work length3:50

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Verdi prati

Track length3:50

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Handel: Alcina, HWV 34, Act II

Work length6:44

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Entrée des Songes agréables

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Entrée des Songes funestes

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Entrée des Songes agréables effrayés

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Le Combat des Songes funestes et agréables

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Excerpt, Handel: Arminio

Work length4:31

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Overture

Track length3:27

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Minuet

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Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Ombra mai fu, "Largo" (Arr. for Orchestra)

Work length3:03

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Excerpt, Handel: Berenice, regina d'Egitto, HWV 38

Work length8:26

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Overture

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Andante larghetto (Minuet)

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Ghigg

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Handel: Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II Scene 4: Lascia ch'io pianga (Arr. for Orchestra)

Work length4:05

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Excerpt, Handel: Rodelinda

Work length6:55

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Overture

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Minuet

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Handel: Rodelinda, HWV 19, Act I

Work length4:30

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Dove sei, amato bene

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Excerpt, Handel: Ariodante

Work length5:27

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Overture

Track length3:30

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Alla breve

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Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, Act I

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Volate, amori

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Excerpt, Handel: Ariodante

Work length4:30

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

Musette. Lentement

Track length1:34

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Musette. Andante

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Allegro

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2010

Handel's music is never more winsome than when it's written for special occasions, not least operas. Several of the items in this programme are arias, but they aren't sung. Like today's musicals, though not for calculated commercial reasons, some became what we would now term pops, and Handel reworked them as instrumental pieces, so no liberty has been taken here in presenting them in that form. The charm of this music hasn't escaped the notice of others in recording studios, but it has never been more persuasively captured than it is by Collegium Musicum 90. Other recordings exist of the complete operas and some of the individual instrumental items, but Arminio is represented by only one aria; there's nothing run-of-the-mill about the fugal subject of the Overture, or its treatment, and the Minuet is winsome and light of step. Collegium Musicum 90 fields a team of 32 players but their sound is marvellously light and transparent even when in full flood, and their use of period instruments (or copies thereof) leads also to a natural, revelatory balance. Flawless recording and excellent notes by Standage complete an outstanding issue.

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