Browse: Alan Curtis Handel Operas (series)
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Handel: Ariodante
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Ariodante), Karina Gauvin (Ginevra), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Polinesso), Sabina Puértolas (Dalinda), Topi Lehtipuu (Lurcanio), Matthew Brook (King of Scotland), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Odoardo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
in Alan Curtis's scrupulously detailed performance, Joyce diDonato's gleaming legato and coloratura are upstaged by the elegance of Karina Gauvin's Ginevra. While diDonato offers recklessly inventive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th May 2011
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unolfo), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Of available recordings this set has the edge, for its greater dramatic urgency and richer characterisation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Alcina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings firebrand fioritura (vocal embellishment), impeccably naturalistic recitative and an inimitable everywoman pathos to the soprano title-role. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Handel: Tolomeo, Re di Egitto HWV25
Ann Hallenberg (Tolomeo), Karina Gauvin (Seleuce), Anna Bonitatibus (Elisa), Romina Basso (Alessandro), Pietro Spagnoli (Araspe)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Tolomeo is sung here by Ann Hallenberg, whose range of technical skills includes neat runs and a very presentable trill. As his wife Seleuce, Karina Gauvin is charming, and decorates her music... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Ezio, HWV29
Sonia Prina (Valentiniano), Ann Hallenberg (Ezio), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Massimo), Karina Gauvin (Fulvia), Marianne Andersen (Onoria), Vito Priante (Varo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…a long succession of fine arias offering opportunities for six principals that are fully seized on this occasion. With keenly etched orchestral playing and lucid sound, this is unusually consistent,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Giulio Cesare), Karina Gauvin (Cleopatra), Romina Basso (Cornelia), Emoke Barath (Sesto), Filippo Mineccia (Tolomeo), Johannes Weisser (Achilla), Milena Storti (Nireno), Gianluca Buratto (Curio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
if all ears were once on the Egyptian seductress Cleopatra, now they are focused on the grieving Roman widow Cornelia...Curtis presents a Giulio Cesare that is as volatile and ambiguous as Mozart's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Deidamia
Simone Kermes (Deidamia), Dominique Labelle (Nerea), Anna Maria Panzarella (Achille), Anna Bonitatibus (Ulisse), Furio Zanasi (Fenice) & Antonio Abete (Licomede)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
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Handel: Giove in Argo
Ann Hallenberg (Iside), Theodora Baka (Diana), Karina Gauvin (Calisto), Anicio Zorzi ('Arete' - Giove), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani ('Arete' - Giove), Johannes Weisser (Licaone), Vito Priante (Erasto - Osiri)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
this reconstruction is notable for the unusual balance between arias and choruses, of which there are nine horns, oboe and recorders. Though the voices blend oddly with Curtis's choir, the choral... — More…
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Handel: Floridante
Marijana Mijanovic (Floridante), Joyce DiDonato (Elmira), Roberta Invernizzi (Timante), Vito Priante (Oronte), Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (Rossane), Riccardo Novaro (Coralbo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Curtis directs with well-paced assurance and has assembled an effective cast drawn mainly from a pool of semi-regulars. As always with these pieces, veritable voyages of discovery, the score... — More…
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