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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] some of Handel’s first operas were performed. Keiser’s operas have mostly not survived, but Ulysses has, and now it has gotten a spiffy reading. The work is mostly in German, but some of the arias are in Italian, as was common at the time in Germany (and occasionally in France). Handel’s oft-performed Serse (i.e., Xerxes), entirely Italian, is treated this year to a splendid recording that features two utterly marvelous sopranos, Mary Bevan and Lucy Crowe, under the responsive baton of Harry Bicket. Other Baroque operas that proved entertaining and enlightening were L’Idalma by Bernardo Pasquini (best known for his “cuckoo” piece for organ, gloriously orchestrated by Respighi in the Ancient Airs and Dances), Cavalli’s L’Egisto (featuring two remarkable and distinctive tenors: the lighter Zachary Wilder—a favorite of Boston audiences—and the darker Marc Mauillon), Lully’s Psyché (which is full of colorful details, including music for giants hammering at anvils, two […]
2023-12-11 06:22:00
The English Concert. Handel's Rodelinda regina de'Longobardi. December 10, 2023.
Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Balcony (Seat J3, $28).End of concert. The people in the front are (from L to R): Garibaldo, Rodelinda, Bertarido, Harry Bicket, Eduige, Grimoaldo, and Unulfo.Program - in concertRodelinda, HWV 19 (1725) by Handel (1685-1759).Conductor - Harry Bicket; Rodelinda - Lucy Crowe (soprano), Bertarido - Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Unulfo - Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (countertenor), Eduige - Christine Rice (messo-soprano), Garibaldo - Brendon Cedel (bass-bariton).Background. At his death, the King of Lombardy left his domain in equal parts to his three children: Bertarido, Eduige, and Gundeberto. Gundeberto has died, Bertarido is believed to have died - leaving the widow Rodelinda behind as Queen of Milan - and by wooing Eduige, Duke Grimoaldo has aspirations to the whole kingdom.Story. Grimoaldo has seized power, so Rodelinda and her son Flavio are his prisoners. Grimoaldo offers the throne to Rodelinda if she would marry him. Rodelinda refuses, and Eduige vows […]
2023-12-06 07:44:00
A lifetime's experience: John Nelson finally records Messiah in a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists
Handel: Messiah; Lucy Crowe, Alex Potter, Michael Spyres, Matthew Brook, the English Concert & Choir, John Nelson; EratoReviewed 4 December 2023Superb musicality and a life-time's experience from John Nelson make this a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists and an appendix with eight alternative readingsHandel wrote Messiah in 1741 for performances in Dublin in 1742. Unusually for Handel, the work was written without knowing quite who the soloists would be. The enthusiastic reception in Dublin was not repeated when Handel presented the work in London in 1743 and the work was only intermittently revived until Handel's charity performances for the Foundling Hospital began in 1750. From then on, Foundling Hospital performances of Messiah were a part of the London scene, and it is to these later performances that we owe the version of Messiah generally performed today.Handel constantly adjusted the work, revising and tweaking. For the 1749 revival the castrato Gaetano Guadagni […]
2023-11-27 14:00:25
Crowe’s feat
I can still vividly remember the first time the music of George Frideric Handel made an impression on me.
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