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“Canzoni d’amore” (“Love songs”) – Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848) – LIVE in concert – Berlin 1998. Luca Casagrande Baritone Jessica Nardon Piano (Piano Erard XIX cent.) Donizetti was a prolific composer. He composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, almost 300 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and […]

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Sandrine Piau, soprano – “Wie, willst du noch nicht gehn? … Geloso tormento mi va rodendo il cor” – Recitative and Aria of Almira – “Almira” or “ALMIRA, Königin von Castilien, or Der in Kronen erlangte Glücks-Wechsel” (“Almira, Queen of Castille, or The Change of Fortune Gained with a Crown”) (HWV 1). The first opera […]

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Nathalie Stutzmann – Alto – “Agitato da fiere tempeste” – “Riccardo Primo” – G. F. Händel This isn’t a vid. But you can hear Nathalie Stutzmann in the same aria. A GREAT live performance.

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Nuria Rial, soprano – “Il volo così fido” – “Riccardo Primo” – G. F. Händel. Riccardo Primo, Re d’Inghilterra (HWV 23) Libretto: Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani First performance: 11th November 1727, King’s Theatre, London Cast: Riccardo I – Francesco Bernardi, called “Senesino” (Alto-castrato) Costanza – Francesca Cuzzoni (Soprano) Pulcheria – Faustina Bordoni (Soprano) […]

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Vivica Genaux, mezzosoprano, as Arminio – Geraldine McGreevy, soprano, as Tusnelda – “Il fuggir cara mia Vita” – Duet from “Arminio”. Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco “Arminio” (HWV 36) – Libretto: Unknown, after Antonio Salvi, 1703, from de Campistron, 1684 – First performance: 12th January 1737, Covent Garden Theatre, London. Cast: Arminio – Domenico Annibali […]

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Arleen Augér – “Care Selve” – “Atalanta” – G. F. Handel. My favourite.

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Karina Gauvin – “Care Selve” – “Atalanta” 1736 – G. G. Handel. Beautiful recording. The Spring opera season of 1736 was to be Handel’s shortest. It started on 19th February with the premiere of his new oratorio Alexander’s Feast, which proved enormously successful. He followed this with revivals of “Acis and Galatea” and “Esther”. The […]

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His cheerful, ebullient personality stood in sharp contrast to a brief life bookended by tragedy: Fritz Wunderlich, voted in a 2008 survey by BBC Magazine as the fourth greatest tenor of all time. Although he is particularly remembered as an outstanding Mozartean stylist, Wunderlich had a wide-ranging repertoire that encompassed lyric tenor roles in operas […]

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Fritz Wunderlich – “Mi lusinga il dolce affetto” – “Alcina” – G. F. Händel – Live in Köln 1959. Great voice and rendition. Great dynamic and beautiful voice colors. This aria is for castrato voice, but no one actual fake “castrato” aka “countertenor” can sing like that. Just some female voice “en travesti”.

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Fritz Wunderlich (1930 – 1966) – “Semplicetto, a Donna credi” from “Alcina – G. F. Händel. Beautiful, elegant belcanto renditino by a great tenor. “Excerpt from the fabulous 1959 edition of Alcina, with Joan Sutherland and Fritz Wunderlich at their best. I will immediately delete this clip under request of the owners Messrs Deutsche Grammophon.” […]