Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice

Album by Handel; Christopher Purves, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Released 3 December 2012

Tracklist

  • 1
    Rinaldo, HWV7a: Aria “Sibilar gli angui d’Aletto” (Argante)
    George Frideric Handel
    4:50
  • 2
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a: Accompagnato “I Rage, I Melt, I Burn!” –
    George Frideric Handel
    1:21
  • 3
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a: Air “O Ruddier Than the Cherry” (Polyphemus)
    George Frideric Handel
    6:59
  • 4
    Acis, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72: Aria “Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori” (Polifemo)
    George Frideric Handel
    6:59
  • 5
    L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Recitative “If I Give Thee Honour Due” –
    George Frideric Handel
    0:12
  • 6
    L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Air “Mirth, Admit Me of Thy Crew” (L’Allegro)
    George Frideric Handel
    2:34
  • 7
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47: Accompagnato “Qual’insolita luce” –
    George Frideric Handel
    1:09
  • 8
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47: Aria “Caddi, è ver” (Lucifero)
    George Frideric Handel
    4:15
  • 9
    Deborah, HWV 51: Air “Tears, Such as Tender Fathers Shed” (Abinoam)
    George Frideric Handel
    2:30
  • 10
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Air “To Pow’r Immortal My First Thanks Are Due” (Gobrias)
    George Frideric Handel
    3:55
  • 11
    Orlando, HWV 31: Accompagnato “Impari ognun da Orlando” –
    George Frideric Handel
    1:11
  • 12
    Orlando, HWV 31: Aria “Sorge infausta una procella” (Zoroastro)
    George Frideric Handel
    4:35
  • 13
    Theodora, HWV 68: Air “Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire” (Valens)
    George Frideric Handel
    3:56
  • 14
    Muzio Scevola, HWV 13: Aria “Volate più dei venti” (Porsena)
    George Frideric Handel
    3:24
  • 15
    Agrippina, GWV 6: Aria “Vieni, o cara” (Claudio)
    George Frideric Handel
    1:45
  • 16
    Riccardo Primo, Re d’Inghilterra, HWV 23: Aria “Nel mondo e nell’abisso”
    George Frideric Handel
    3:13
  • 17
    Apollo e Dafine, HWV 122: Aria “Mie piante correte” –
    George Frideric Handel
    2:50
  • 18
    Apollo e Dafine, HWV 122: Aria “Cara pianta” (Apollo)
    George Frideric Handel
    7:27
  • 19
    Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75: Air “Revenge, Timotheus Cries”
    George Frideric Handel
    7:55
  • 20
    Semele, HWV 58: Air “Leave Me, Loathsome Light” (Somnus)
    George Frideric Handel
    3:40

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