Handel: Enchantresses / Piau, Correas, Les Paladins

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January 14, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      George Frideric Handel
    • PERFORMER
      Sandrine Piau, Les Paladins, Jerome Correas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 14, 2022
    • UPC
      3760014197659
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA765
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Lotario, HWV 26, Act I: Aria: Scherza in mar la navicella

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    2. Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II: Aria a 2: Il vostro maggio de' bei verdi anni

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    3. Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act III Scene 7: Da tempeste

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    4. Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322: I. Larghetto affettuoso

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    5. Act III: Recitative: E pur così in un giorno

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    6. Act III: Aria: Piangero la sorte mia

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    7. Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322: II. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    8. O numi eterni, HWV 145, "La Lucrezia": Arioso: Alla salma infedel

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    9. Alcina, HWV 34, Act III: Aria: Ah! mio cor

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    10. Overture

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    11. Act II: Destero dall' empia Dite

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    12. Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6, HWV 324: I. Largo affettuoso

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    13. Alcina, HWV 34, Act I: Tornami a vagheggiar

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas

    14. Rinaldo, HWV 7a, Act II: Aria: Lascia ch'io pianga

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Les Paladins

      Performer: Sandrine Piau

      Conductor: Jérôme Correas


Handel is one of Sandrine Piau’s cult composers, and everyone has vivid memories of her magnificent Alcina on DVD (ALPHA715): ‘Where once I portrayed light-hearted, pirouetting heroines, this new album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women.’. . . ‘Queens, sorceresses, sirens . . . we were attracted by the musical and emotional intensity of the hopes, disappointments and sufferings of these women, not forgetting the malice or cruelty that they also know how to deploy’, continues Jérôme Correas, the soprano’s longstanding musical partner and conductor of Les Paladins. With Almirena, Cleopatra and Alcina, Handel explores all the facets of these defeated heroines, whose boldly delineated characters live once more in Sandrine Piau’s passionate interpretation.

Includes arias from:

Lotario | Rinaldo | Giulio Cesare | Alcina | Amadigi di Gaula | O numi eterni

Plus movements from the Concerti grossi

REVIEW:

Sandrine Piau, not English and not even Italian, is arguably the greatest Handelian soprano of the day. She gets excellent support from the smooth historical performance group Les Paladins. She and director Jérôme Correas mesh beautifully. This all comes down to a magnificent artist at the top of her powers.

-- AllMusicGuide.com (James Manheim)