Händel Goes Wild: (casebound deluxe)

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The Baroque instrumentalists display lyricism, drive, and percussive energy, and the jazz instrumentalists improvise on the germs of Handel’s imagination with infectious enthusiasm…There are... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2017
Catalogue No: 9029581170
Label: Erato
Length: 75 minutes

Opus Klassik Awards

2018

Winner - Ensemble (instrumental)

Handel: Sinfonia (From Alcina, HWV 34) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length5:01

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L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Venti, turbini" (From Rinaldo, HWV 7b) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length5:40

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Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "O sleep, why dost thou leave me" (From Semele, HWV 58) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length3:07

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Nuria Rial (soprano)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Vivaldi: Improvisation on Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 157: I. Allegro (Arr. Pluhar)

Work length4:14

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L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Cara sposa" (From Rinaldo, HWV 7b)

Work length9:30

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Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: Semele, "Where'er you walk" (From Semele, HWV 58) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length3:37

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Nuria Rial (soprano)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: Sinfonia, "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" (From Solomon, HWV 67) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length4:09

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L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Pena tiranna" (From Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length6:36

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Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Piangerò la sorte mia" (From Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length5:37

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Nuria Rial (soprano)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Kapsberger: Canario (Arr. Pluhar)

Work length4:54

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L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Verdi prati" (From Alcina, HWV 34) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length3:45

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Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Tu del Ciel ministro eletto" (From Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length3:47

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Nuria Rial (soprano)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Mi lusinga il dolce affetto" (From Alcina, HWV 34)

Work length6:38

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Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: Improvisation on "Lascia ch'io pianga" (From Rinaldo, HWV 7) [Arr. Duran & Turrisi]

Work length3:48

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L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

Handel: "Ombra mai fu" (From Serse, HWV 40) [Arr. Pluhar]

Work length5:02

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Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar

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With Händel Goes Wild Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L’Arpeggiata once again embark on some musical time travel, this time in the company of soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi. The album features sumptuously reimagined versions of some of Handel’s most celebrated operatic arias. “All baroque composers used strict forms,” explains Christina Pluhar, “but those forms would also allow the singers and musicians to improvise and add ornament freely.” Highlighting the composer’s dynamism and temperament, she says: “Handel must have been pretty wild himself.”

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. Händel 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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December 2017

The Baroque instrumentalists display lyricism, drive, and percussive energy, and the jazz instrumentalists improvise on the germs of Handel’s imagination with infectious enthusiasm…There are some natural moments of departure, where the music invites sensual creativity and if you enjoy the lounge-style piano and clarinet soundworld there’s much to enjoy.

21st September 2017

I wouldn’t say wild exactly, but Handel does go a bit off-road on this polished jam session from L’Arpeggiata...It’s sometimes hard to know who is winning – and, for anyone who doesn’t hate this disc immediately, that will be part of the appeal.

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