Serpent & Fire – Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse, Sartorio, Graupner

Purcell, Henry;
Corelli, Arcangelo;
Handel, George Frideric;
Hasse, Johann Adolf;
Graupner, Christoph

Il Giardino Armonico;
Antonini, Giovanni;
Prohaska, Anna

Alpha 250

The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens – Dido and Cleopatra – and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from the 1640s to 1740. A firework display of arias, virtuosic and tragic by turns, written by the leading personalities of Baroque music (Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse) and composers still awaiting rediscovery suchas Sartorio, Graupner and the Venetian Castrovillari. For this programme built like a tragedy around the queens of Egypt and Carthage, whom she interprets with the passion and fervour that have made her reputation, Anna Prohaska is accompanied by one of today’s finest Baroque ensembles, Il Giardino Armonico; under the inspired guidance of their director Giovanni Antonini (who is also a dazzling recorder soloist in some of the arias), they keep us on the edge of our seats from start to finish. A top star in Germany, Anna Prohaska also sings on the world’s leading operatic stages, from La Scala to Covent Garden by way of Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Alpha

21-09-2016

3760014192500

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