Harmonia Mundi: HMU907422

As Steals the Morn

A dramatic collection of solo arias and scenes for tenor drawn for oratorio and opera - some of Handel's most lovely music, brilliantly performed by Mark Padmore and The English Concert, led by Andrew Manze. The concluding duet As steals the morn with soprano Lucy Crowe is an added bonus.

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As Steals the Morn

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HMU907422

As Steals the Morn

Handel - Arias & scenes for tenor

Handel:

Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (Alceste, Act IV)

Where'er you walk (from Semele)

Urne voi (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Part I)

Forte e lieto (from Tamerlano)

Oh per me lieto, avventuroso giorno! (from Tamerlano)

Figlia mia (from Tamerlano)

Tu, spietato (from Tamerlano)

Total eclipse (Samson)

Did love constrain thee? (Samson, Act II, 2)

Your charms to ruin led the way

Let but that spirit …(Samson,Act III, 1)

Then shall I make …;

Thus when the sun from’s watry bed (Samson)

Fatto inferno…Pastorello d'un povero armento (from Rodelinda)

Esther: Tune your harps to cheerful strains

Heav'n smiles once more … (Jephtha, Act II, 2)

His mighty arm (Jephtha, Act III, 1)

Jephtha: Waft her, angels, through the skies

As steals the morn (from L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato)

Mark Padmore (tenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor) & Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe obligato)

The English Concert, Andrew Manze

“Handel was one of the first Baroque composers to invest his talents in the tenor voice and here this unique English legacy is recalled. Through his shading, dynamic range and commitment to the text, Padmore seduces the listener.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008

“Tenors are fighter pilots - dashing, heroic, unhappy out of the limelight - and Padmore is an ace among them, soaring through this disc on a velvet voice in various Handelian guises. Semele falls for his smooth flattery in Where'er you walk', though he decelerates after the intro speed set by The English Consort under Andrew Manze. His blinded Samson is harrowingly persuasive in 'Total Eclipse', he shows off impressive no-breath acrobatics in Jephtha and dramatises outrageously in the Tameriano extract. The alto Robin Blaze and the soprano Lucy Crow are his top-notch, bit-part crew.” The Times

“Padmore reveals the composer's enormous affective range in singing that is variously passionate, tender and ardent. In this ravishing music Padmore is sympathetically partnered by Lucy Crowe with an intuitively responsive oboe obbligato by Katharina Spreckelsen. An outstanding recital.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2007 *****

“This is one of the most alluring recitals of its kind that has come my way for a very long time.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2007

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - May 2007

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2008

Vocal Award Winner

Harmonia Mundi - HMU907422

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Press comments:

"This is one of the most alluring recitals of its kind that has come my way for a very long time"BBC MUSIC Magazine

Tenors are fighter pilots - dashing, heroic, unhappy out of the limelight - and Padmore is an ace among them, soaring through this disc on a velvet voice in various Handelian guises. The Times

A beguilingly rich and sensitive recital from one of the most thoughtful tenors of his generation. Underpinned by Andrew Manze’s unobtrusive and warm-hearted English Concert, Mark Padmore uses his extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy to remind us that the most exalted tenor arias from the operas and oratorios can achieve true potency out of contest.” Gramophone

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