Haendel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

George Frideric Handel (Composer), Rinaldo Alessandrini (Conductor), Concerto Italiano (Orchestra), Deborah York (Performer), Sara Mingardo (Performer), Gemma Bertagnolli (Performer), Nicholas Sears (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Deborah York, Sara Mingardo, Gemma Bertagnolli, Nicholas Sears
• Orchestra: Concerto Italiano
• Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini
• Composer: George Frideric Handel
• Audio CD (May 8, 2001)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Opus 111
• ASIN: B00004ZBLE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,066 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Prima Parte

2. Prima Parte

3. Prima Parte

4. Prima Parte

5. Prima Parte

6. Prima Parte

7. Prima Parte

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10. Prima Parte

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Disc: 2

1. Seconda Parte

2. Seconda Parte

3. Seconda Parte

4. Seconda Parte

5. Seconda Parte

6. Seconda Parte

7. Seconda Parte

8. Seconda Parte

9. Seconda Parte

10. Seconda Parte

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Customer Reviews

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous recording, May 25, 2001

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J. Luis Juarez Echenique "pepechenique" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haendel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Audio CD)

Rinaldo Alessandrini was wise to choose this early (but fully mature) oratorio for his first Handel recording. The only other worthwhile recording with Minkowski in ERATO is now superseded in every department. Alessandrini has a superior orchestra in his fabulous Concerto Italiano who play Handel as if to the manner born. His soloists couldn't possibly be bettered: soprano Deborah York covers herself with glory in her great arias, and Gemma Bertagnolli is not too far behind. Sara Mingardo is the finest Italian mezzo since Bartoli switched to soprano and the sweet voiced tenor is a delight too. All in all, it would be VERY difficult for a better recording of Il Trionfo to come by. If you don't know this beautiful oratorio you are missing an important masterpiece.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A little-known but absolutely superb early Handel oratorio, June 28, 2004

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Bruce Bogin (rural France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haendel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Audio CD)

Somewhere I ran across a reference to this work and I bought it for one reason---Sara Mingardo. (See my review to Vivaldi's Farnace.) Additionally there is also Gemma Bertagnolli, Deborah York, Nicholas Sears and Concerto Italiano directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini. In other words a fabulous all-star cast. This is not great Handel Triumphalism that one gets in his grand oratorios and operas like Semele, Radimisto and the like. It is beautiful music, beautifully presented. Take my advice. Buy anything in which Sara Mingardo or Gemma Bertagnolli sings or hopefully both of them such as Vivaldi's La Verità in Cimento. Buy anything directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini such as Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade and his Vespri per L'Assunzione di Maria Vergine. And let us thank Opus 111 for making this work available to us.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must-have, March 7, 2005

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St. Mym "saintmym" (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haendel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Audio CD)

There is not a single duff piece in this early oratorio, and I cannot conceive of a better performance than it gets here (despite seeing a pretty impressive live version of it by Le Concert d'Astree last night in London). This is possibly the most glorious available recording of anything in the baroque repertoire. You can hear all the excitement that Handel must have felt on his exposure to the italian musical scene.

Buy it.

You will *not* regret it.