Handel Cantate 02

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Mitchell Sandler sings with a perfectly shaded mixture of power and melancholic sensitivity, his vocal phrasing neatly dovetailing with the contrapuntal eloquence of the three violins and cello…hitherto... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

Release Date: 14th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: AYHC02
Label: ayros
Length: 61 minutes

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Handel: Sonata Op. 4 No. 5

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Contrasto Armonico, Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández, Mitchell Sandler, Pierre-Augustine Lay

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II. Allemanda

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Handel: Spande ancor a mio dispetto

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Contrasto Armonico, Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández, Mitchell Sandler, Pierre-Augustine Lay

I. Spande ancor a mio dispetto

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II. O! che da fiere pene

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III. Da balza in balza

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Handel: Dalla guerra amorosa

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Contrasto Armonico, Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández, Mitchell Sandler, Pierre-Augustine Lay

I. Dalla guerra amorosa

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II. Non v'alletti un occhio nero

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III. Fuggite, si fuggite

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IV. La bellezza è com'un fiore

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V. Fuggite, si fuggite, a chi servo d'amor

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Handel: Sonata Op. 4 No. 3

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Contrasto Armonico, Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández, Mitchell Sandler, Pierre-Augustine Lay

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II. Corrente

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III. Sarabanda

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IV. Tempo di Gavotta

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Handel: Nell'Africane selve

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II. Langue trema

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IV. Chiedo amore, altro non bramo

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Handel: Cuopre tal volta il cielo (HWV 98)

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II. Tuona, balena

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III. Così fiera procella

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IV. Per pietà de'miei martiri

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Handel’s cantatas represent an important musical repertoire that until recently has been little known. Consisting of about 100 separate works, most were written over a period of a few years for private performance in Italy.

They range from musical miniatures containing only two arias connected by recitative and accompanied by continuo (a bass line typically realized by cello and harpsichord) to larger works with named characters, a dramatic story, and rich instrumental forces. Telling more often than not about the pangs of love, these are intimate works, with texts frequently written by (and sometimes about) members of the privileged audience for which they were composed. A number of Handel’s cantatas have texts by one of his important Italian patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj.

The project of Marco Vitale to record all of Handel’s cantatas is thrilling. The continuo cantatas have never been recorded in full and many have never been recorded at all. Thus, this project will bring to life largely unknown music by one of the world’s greatest composers. Further, performance all the cantatas will place the larger, instrumental works in the musical context of their creation.

This project is the continuation of the ‘Handel Complete Cantatas’ series appeared recently on the market with four volumes issued. This is the second volume presented by the ayros recording label, as continuation of the series . This CD features the bass-baritone Mitchell Sandler, who worked in other CD productions of Contrasto Armonico (Aci, Galatea e Polifeo & La Resurrezione). The CDs contains also two trio-sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli.

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October 2015

Mitchell Sandler sings with a perfectly shaded mixture of power and melancholic sensitivity, his vocal phrasing neatly dovetailing with the contrapuntal eloquence of the three violins and cello…hitherto none of the handful of recordings that group together all four of Handel's bass cantatas has managed to maintain the musical sophistication achieved consistently here.

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