Handel: Arias and dances: Excerpts From Agrippina and Alcina

George Frederick Handel (Composer), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Orchestra), Karina Gauvin (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Karina Gauvin
• Orchestra: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
• Composer: George Frederick Handel
• Audio CD (April 6, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Analekta
• ASIN: B00001P4SJ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #594,934 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture

2. Musette

3. Menuet

4. Aria ''Di, Cor Mio'' (Alcina)

5. Aria ''Tornami'' (Morgana)

6. Entree

7. Menuet

8. Gavotte

9. Aria ''Barbara'' (Oberto)

10. Aria "Ombre Pallide" (Alcina)

11. Entree Des Songes Agreables - Entree Des Songes Funestes - Entree De Songes Agre

12. Aria ''Mi Restano Le Lagrime'' (Alcina)

13. Overture

14. Aria ''Non Ho Cor Che Per Amarti'' (Agrippina)

15. Aria "Ogni Vento'' (Agrippina)

16. Gigue

17. Sarabande

18. Matelot

19. Aria "Vaghe Perle'' (Poppea)

20. Menuet

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling and refinement in a natural recording, February 9, 2000

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This review is from: Handel: Arias and dances: Excerpts From Agrippina and Alcina (Audio CD)

My knowledge of classical music is patchy but I love Handel and I have other recordings of these Handel arias. My favourite is this one ( along with Kathleen Ferrier's, on Decca vinyl ). Gauvin's voice is light, joyful, and marvellously expressive -- you feel she has the music down pat and can simply put her soul into singing it. Tafelmusik is equally joyful, energetic and precise. The sound of the recording is open and lovely. No shrill highs, but purity of timbre and lots of space. I can still hear the Ogni Vento, and I last listened to it nearly a month ago. A wonderful disc.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Handel, December 1, 2008

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This review is from: Handel: Arias and dances: Excerpts From Agrippina and Alcina (Audio CD)

This cd is a delight in every way. I am a huge fan of Handel and this program does him honor. Karin Gauvin is an outstanding singer and her bel canto technique is amazing. Joan Sutherland sang some of this material (from Alcina) and Gauvin is at least her equal if not her better. Jeanne Lamon and the Canadian group Tafelmusik provide outstanding support and the overtures and interludes are very well done and in the best baroque style. In short...if you are a true Handelian, you must have this disc.