Handel - Saul (English Oratorio in Three Acts) HMW 53

George Frideric Handel (c. 1685-1759)

Saul, English Oratorio in Three Parts HMW 53

Joachim Carlos Martini

Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra

Junge Kantorei

Soloists

Marcel Beekman; David Cordier; Stephan MacLeod;Claron McFadden; Barbara Schlick; Knut Schoch; Gotthold Schwarz

Handel: Riccardo Primo - Les Talens Liriques, Christophe Rousset

Handel: Riccardo primo, Re d’Inghilterra

Riccardo primo: Sara Mingardo 

Costanza: Sandrine Piau 

Berardo: Olivier Lallouette 

Isacio: Robert Scaltriti 

Pulcheria: Claire Brua 

Oronte: Pascal Bertin

Les Talens Lyriques (on period instruments)

Director: Christophe Rousset

Handel: Rodrigo - Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

Handel - Rodrigo  

Gloria Banditelli, 

Sandrine Piau, 

Elena Fedi, 

Rufus Müller, 

Roberta Invernizzi, 

Caterina Calvi

Il Complesso Barocco 

Alan Curtis

Conversazioni 1 - Cantatas from a Cardinal's Court - Andrew Radley, Sounds Baroque

Conversazioni I: Cantatas from a Cardinal's Court

Works by Albinoni, Caldara, Handel, and Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti.

Sounds Baroque

Andrew Radley, countertenor

Julian Perkins, director

Handel - Gloria, Dixit Dominus / Cummings, Kirkby

Georg Friedrich Handel

Gloria, Dixit Dominus 

Emma Kirby's radiant performance on the premiere recording of Handel's rediscovered 'Gloria' is well worth the entrance price. The Royal Academy's Baroque Orchestra also give a strong performance, albeit one lacking the richer tones of John Eliot Gardiner's period ensemble on the Philips (462 597-2) recording which appeared a couple of months later. By Handel's standards this a fairly straight setting of a traditional text, but all the expected flourishes, trills, sustains and extended runs are there to add the colour we would expect. The outcome is a splendid combination of required simplicity and appropriate elaboration.

G.F.Handel: Arias and Duets - Sandrine Piau, Sara Mingardo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

G.F.Handel: Arias and Duets
Sandrine Piau, Sara Mingardo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

Georg Frideric Handel - Theodora - William Christie

Georg Frideric Handel - Theodora
Frode Olsen, David Daniels, Richard Croft, 

Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt, Michael Hart-Davis
The Glyndebourne chorus
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
William Christie
Recording 1996

Haendel: Italian Cantatas /Véronique Gens/Les Basses Réunies (Reuploaded)

Georg Friedrich Haendel:  Cantatas.

Véronique Gens, soprano. Les Basses Réunies