HANDEL GALA
Teodor Currentzis offers us a Handel Gala with overtures and arias from the composer's most famous operas.
PERFORMERS
musicAeterna, orchestra and choir
Teodor Currentzis, conductor
PROGRAM
“Augelletti, ruscelletti”, aria from the oratorio La resurrezione, HWV 47
“Zadok the Priest”, Coronation Hymn No. 1, HWV 258
“Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno”, aria from the oratorio La resurrezione, HWV 47
“Ah! Crudel nel pianto mio”, aria from the opera Rinaldo, HWV 78
Oberture of the opera Agrippina, HWV 6
“As with Rosy Steps the Morn”, aria from the oratorio Theodora, HWV 68
“De torrente in via bibet”, duo with choir from the psalm Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
“Oh, Let the Merry Bells Ring Round”, aria with chorus from the oratorio L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55
“Pena tiranna”, aria from the opera Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11
“Eternal Source of Light Divine”, fragment from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74
“Alla Hornpipe, núm. 2”, from the suite for orchestra The Water Music núm. 2 in Re major, HWV 349
“Who Calls my Parting Soul from Death”, duo from the oratorio Esther, HWV 50b
“He Saw the Lovely Youth”, chorus from the oratorio Theodora, HWV 68
“Piangerò la sorte mia”, aria from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17
“Ah! Stigie larve-Vaghe pupille”, recitative and aria from the opera Orlando, HWV 31
“O Love Divine, thou Source of Fame”, chorus from the oratorio Theodora, HWV 68
“Sing Ye to the Lord”, chorus with solo soprano from the oratorio Israel in Egypt, HWV 54
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