If Love's A Sweet Passion [CD]
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With If Love's a Sweet Passion, soprano Arianna Savall, tenor Petter Udland Johansen, and the Freitagsakademieunder the direction of Katharina Suske present a carefully curated selection of vocal and instrumental works by Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel. The album illuminates essential aspects of Baroque affect, stylistic hybridity and dramatic rhetoric. It's program brings together Purcell's distinctly English musical language - marked by rhetorical clarity and subtle chromatic inflection - with Handel's Italianate, operatically expansive melodic writing and his masterful shaping of musical character. This recording unites two central Baroque traditions - the English 'consort style' of Purcell and the Italianate dramaturgy of Handel - within a coherent artistic and dramaturgical framework.
Tracklist:
- Fairy Queen, Z.629: Duetto. If Love's a Sweet Passion
- King Arthur, Z.628-Aria: How Blest Are Shepherds
- Solomon, HWV 67-Recitative: May Peace in Salem Ever Dwell!
- Solomon, HWV 67-Aria: Will the Sun Forget to Streak
- Esther, HWV 50-Aria: Tune Your Harps
- Amadigi Di Gaula, HWV 11-Recitative: Il Crudel M'abbandona
- Amadigi Di Gaula, HWV 11-Aria: Ah! Spietato!
- Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato, HWV 55-Duetto: As Steals the Morn
- Terpsichore, HWV 8B-Chaconne
- Giulio Cesare, HWV 17-Recitative: Che Sento? Oh Dio!
- Giulio Cesare, HWV 17-Aria: Se Pietà Di Me Non Senti
- Semele, HWV 58-Aria: Where'er You Walk
- Semele, HWV 58-Aria: I Must with Speed Amuse Her
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49-Recitative: Ye Verdant Plains and Woody Mountains
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49-Recitative ; Aria: O Didst Thou Know the Pains
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49-As When the Dove Laments Her Love
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49-Recitative: 'Tis Done, Heart
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49-Aria: Heart, the Seat of Soft Delight
- Dido and Aeneas-Recitative: Thy Hand Belinda -
- Dido and Aeneas-Aria: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)
- King Arthur, Z.628: Chaconne ; Duetto. How Happy the Lover
UPC: 4262353970898
Label: Prospero Classical
Release Date: 6.12.26
Format: CD
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