Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice

Album by George Frideric Handel & Christopher Purves & Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen

First released: 3rd December 2012

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Rinaldo, HWV7a: Aria “Sibilar gli angui d’Aletto” (Argante)
    4:49
  2. 2.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a: Accompagnato “I Rage, I Melt, I Burn!” –
    1:20
  3. 3.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a: Air “O Ruddier Than the Cherry” (Polyphemus)
    3:12
  4. 4.
    Acis, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72: Aria “Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori” (Polifemo)
    6:58
  5. 5.
    L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Recitative “If I Give Thee Honour Due” –
    0:11
  6. 6.
    L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Air “Mirth, Admit Me of Thy Crew” (L’Allegro)
    2:33
  7. 7.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47: Accompagnato “Qual’insolita luce” –
    1:09
  8. 8.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47: Aria “Caddi, è ver” (Lucifero)
    4:14
  9. 9.
    Deborah, HWV 51: Air “Tears, Such as Tender Fathers Shed” (Abinoam)
    2:30
  10. 10.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Air “To Pow’r Immortal My First Thanks Are Due” (Gobrias)
    3:54
  11. 11.
    Orlando, HWV 31: Accompagnato “Impari ognun da Orlando” –
    1:11
  12. 12.
    Orlando, HWV 31: Aria “Sorge infausta una procella” (Zoroastro)
    4:35
  13. 13.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Air “Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire” (Valens)
    3:55
  14. 14.
    Muzio Scevola, HWV 13: Aria “Volate più dei venti” (Porsena)
    3:23
  15. 15.
    Agrippina, GWV 6: Aria “Vieni, o cara” (Claudio)
    1:45
  16. 16.
    Riccardo Primo, Re d’Inghilterra, HWV 23: Aria “Nel mondo e nell’abisso”
    3:12
  17. 17.
    Apollo e Dafine, HWV 122: Aria “Mie piante correte” –
    2:49
  18. 18.
    Apollo e Dafine, HWV 122: Aria “Cara pianta” (Apollo)
    7:27
  19. 19.
    Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75: Air “Revenge, Timotheus Cries”
    7:54
  20. 20.
    Semele, HWV 58: Air “Leave Me, Loathsome Light” (Somnus)
    3:40

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