Handel: Semele / Alarcon, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

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Label
Ricercar
Release Date
February 11, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      George Frideric Handel
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Millenium Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Choeur De Chambre De Namur, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 11, 2022
    • UPC
      5400439004375
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RIC437
    • LABEL
      Ricercar
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical

Semele is a masterpiece. For what else can one call a drama in which the perfect symbiosis of text and music conjures up such suggestive power? ‘To hold the mind, the ears and the eyes equally spellbound’: this recommendation by La Bruyère (Les Caractères: ‘Les ouvrages de l'esprit’) refers to the ‘machine plays’ so adored by the public in the Baroque period. But even without machinery or indeed without sets or real staging, Handel’s oratorio involves us in the tragic fate of his heroine with supreme skill.