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Handel: Enchantresses / Piau, Correas, Les Paladins
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Handel: Enchantresses / Piau, Correas, Les Paladins

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Details

Composer
George Frideric Handel
Artist
Sandrine Piau, Les Paladins, Jerome Correas
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Jan 14, 2022
Catalog #
ALPHA765
UPC
3760014197659

About

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)

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Lotario, HWV 26, Act I: Aria: Scherza in mar la navicella 05:50
    Track
    1
    Title
    Lotario, HWV 26, Act I: Aria: Scherza in mar la navicella
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  2. 2 Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II: Aria a 2: Il vostro maggio de' bei verdi anni 03:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II: Aria a 2: Il vostro maggio de' bei verdi anni
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  3. 3 Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act III Scene 7: Da tempeste 06:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act III Scene 7: Da tempeste
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  4. 4 Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322: I. Larghetto affettuoso 03:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322: I. Larghetto affettuoso
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  5. 5 Act III: Recitative: E pur così in un giorno 00:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act III: Recitative: E pur così in un giorno
    Duration
    00:39
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  6. 6 Act III: Aria: Piangero la sorte mia 06:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act III: Aria: Piangero la sorte mia
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  7. 7 Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322: II. Allegro 03:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322: II. Allegro
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  8. 8 O numi eterni, HWV 145, "La Lucrezia": Arioso: Alla salma infedel 03:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    O numi eterni, HWV 145, "La Lucrezia": Arioso: Alla salma infedel
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  9. 9 Alcina, HWV 34, Act III: Aria: Ah! mio cor 11:53
    Track
    9
    Title
    Alcina, HWV 34, Act III: Aria: Ah! mio cor
    Duration
    11:53
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  10. 10 Overture 03:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    Overture
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  11. 11 Act II: Destero dall' empia Dite 06:28
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act II: Destero dall' empia Dite
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  12. 12 Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6, HWV 324: I. Largo affettuoso 03:32
    Track
    12
    Title
    Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6, HWV 324: I. Largo affettuoso
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  13. 13 Alcina, HWV 34, Act I: Tornami a vagheggiar 04:43
    Track
    13
    Title
    Alcina, HWV 34, Act I: Tornami a vagheggiar
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas
  14. 14 Rinaldo, HWV 7a, Act II: Aria: Lascia ch'io pianga 05:14
    Track
    14
    Title
    Rinaldo, HWV 7a, Act II: Aria: Lascia ch'io pianga
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    George Frideric Handel
    Performer
    Sandrine Piau
    Ensemble
    Les Paladins
    Conductor
    Jérôme Correas