EMS 26 February - Opera Profile: Handel's Alcina

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 23-02-17, 16:22

**doversoul1** · 23-02-17, 17:55

The CD used on the programme

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/DG%2BArchiv/4777374

Handel: Alcina. DG Archiv: 4777374. Buy download online. Joyce 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

...and this has just been released. No stage plops, clever or silly, just singing.
Coupled with Tamerlano which, to me, doesn’t work too well with the same setting.

Handel: Alcina & Tamerlano

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Alpha/ALPHA715

Handel: Alcina & Tamerlano. Alpha: ALPHA715. Buy 2 Blu-rays online. Sandrine Piau (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Angelique Noldus (Bradamante), Sabina Puertolas (Morgana), Chloe Briot (Oberto), Daniel Behle (Oronte), Giovanni Furlanetto (Melisso), Edouard Higuet (Astolfo), Sophie Karthäuser (Asteria), Ann Hallenberg (Irene), Delphine Galou (Andronico),...

(apologies; I don’t know how many times I have posted this) but here are some arias (Maite Beaumont sings Ruggiero here and in the CD)

Sandrine Piau as Handel's Alcina - Ah! Mio cor - Les Talens Lyriques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZzsjgW3IRM

With special thanks to the great OEDIPUS COLONEUS who I took this part of the production from, in order to highlight this ground- and heartbreaking performan...

Maite Beaumont sings "Verdi prati" from Händel's Alcina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okP20oCC0FM

Maite Beaumont sings "Verdi prati" from Händel's Alcina

Maite Beaumont sings "Stà nell'Ircana pietrosa", Ruggiero's aria from Alcina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW8gXBf6PAY

Live recording at La Monnaie De Munt. January 2015.

Back to Radio3, would it be too much to ask if the other eight in the series to be repeated too?

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**doversoul1** · 26-02-17, 09:10

2.00 pm today.

The programme is/was an interview with the late Alan Curtis.

Lucie Skeaping talks to the American harpsichordist and musical director Alan Curtis at his home in Florence

EMS 26 February - Opera Profile: Handel's Alcina

EMS 26 February - Opera Profile: Handel's Alcina

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