Royal Handel / Eva Zaicik, Le Consort

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Alpha
Release Date
January 8, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC
    • PERFORMER
      Le Consort, Zaicik
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 08, 2021
    • UPC
      3760014196621
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA662
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Flavio, re di Longobardi, HWV 16, Act II: Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    2. Caio Marzio Coriolano: Sagri numi

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    3. Admeto, HWV 22, Act II: Gelosia spietata Aletto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    4. Act III: Son stanco, ingiusti Numi

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    5. Act III: Deggio morire, o stelle

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    6. Inumano fratel

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    7. Stille amare

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    8. Floridante, HWV 14, Act I: Ma pria vedro le stelle

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    9. Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act II: L'aura che spira

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    10. Ottone, re di Germania, HWV 15, Act II: Ah! tu non sai quant'il mio cor sospira

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    11. Caio Marzio Coriolano: E' pur il gran piacer

      Composer: Attilio Ariosti

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    12. Crispo: Strazio, scempio, furia e morte

      Composer: Giovanni Bononcini

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    13. Radamisto, HWV 12, Act II: Ombra cara di mia sposa

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik

    14. Riccardo Primo, HWV 23, Act I: Agitato da fiere tempeste

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Le Consort

      Performer: Eva Zaïcik


London, February 1719: the birth of the Royal Academy of Music. George Frideric Handel was appointed musical director. German-born Handel, having spent four years in Italy, wanted to make London the new capital of opera. The only language to be sung on the stage of the King’s Theatre was to be Italian, and two other composers, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, were imported from the Italian peninsula. Both men were string players and contributed a new instrumental sweep to the company. Public enthusiasm reached considerable heights: thirty-four operas- more than 460 performances in all- were given at the Royal Academy over a period of nine years. Handel premiered his masterpieces Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Ottone and Radamisto. Ariosti and Bononcini also enjoyed great success between 1720 and 1723, notably with Coriolano (Ariosti) from which the sublime aria ‘Sagri numi’ is taken. ‘Royal Handel’ is a musical portrait of the first Royal Academy of Music. Eva Zaicik and her partners in Le Consort celebrate the prodigious variety of the Handelian genius and introduce us to previously unrecorded arias by Ariosti and Bononcini: ‘We are captivated by the ghostly sonorities of ‘Stille amare,’ the engulfing fury of “Agitato da fiere tempeste,” the virtuosity of ‘Gelosia, spietata Aletto,’ the swirling excitement of ‘L’aure che spira,’ the ascetic counterpoint of ‘Ombra cara’ and the poignancy of ‘Deggio morire’.’