Handel - Complete Cantatas Vol.1          | Brilliant Classics 93999

Handel - Complete Cantatas Vol.1

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93999

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 9th November 2009

Contents

About

Handel’s cantatas represent an important but until recently little-known area of his work. Even now, newly discovered works are found and performed to much excitement in the media and among lovers of Handel’s music. They were written during his time in Rome from 1707–8, and were intended for private use. They range from miniatures consisting of two arias, recitative and a basso continuo, to large-scale works with all the drama of his operas, complete with named characters, a plot and large orchestral forces.

Marco Vitale is recording the first ever complete cycle of these cantatas. He has returned both to Handel’s manuscripts, where they are extant, and to many of the intervening manuscripts. He has also taken decisions on the pitch of these recordings as a result of his research into the different tunings that were standard in Rome and Venice at the time of the works’ composition.

Many of the cantatas have never been recorded before and this release is sure to generate considerable interest both in itself and as the first volume of a groundbreaking project.

These are new recordings, made in 2009, and include extensive booklet notes and sung texts.

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