Total Eclipse: Music for Handel’s Tenor | Naxos 8573914

Total Eclipse: Music for Handel’s Tenor

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573914

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 12th April 2019

Contents

Artists

Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Pacific MusicWorks Orchestra

Conductor

Stephen Stubbs

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Alexander's Feast, HWV75 (excerpts)
Concerti grossi (6), op.3
» no.2 in B flat major, HWV313
Concerti grossi (12), op.6
» no.7 in D major, HWV325
Israel in Egypt, HWV54
» The enemy said, I will pursue
Messiah, HWV56 (excerpts)
Ode for St Cecilia's Day, HWV76
» Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs
Samson, HWV57 (excerpts)
Saul, HWV53 (excerpts)

Artists

Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Pacific MusicWorks Orchestra

Conductor

Stephen Stubbs

About

John Beard (c. 1716–1791) was a young tenor who came to George Frideric Handel’s attention when still a teenager. He inspired the great composer to give new focus to the tenor voice within his English oratorios. Beard was Handel’s ideal in his demands for ‘articulate utterance of the words and a just expression of the melody’ – a collaboration that climaxed in Handel’s creation of the first truly great tenor part as the hero in Samson. Grammy Award-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan steps into John Beard’s shoes equipped with a voice of ‘shining quality and deep sensitivity’ (The New York Times).

This recording is the result of Pacific MusicWorks’ artistic director Stephen Stubbs and tenor Aaron Sheehan’s collaboration, to create an entirely new Handel programme that focuses on Sheehan’s deeply expressive tenor voice, and we are proud to have such a recording on the Naxos label.

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