Carestini - The Story of a Castrato (2007) more music like this

performed by Philippe Jaroussky (counter tenor), Le Concert D'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
composed by Carl Heinrich Graun, Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frederick Handel, Giovanni Maria Capelli, Johann Adolf Hasse, Leonardo Leo, Nicola Porpora

Following the trend of singers releasing recitals based on the repertoire of great performers of previous centuries -- Cecilia Bartoli's tribute to Maria Malibran and Juan Diego Flórez's to Giovanni Battista Rubini, for instance -- countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has devoted a CD to the repertoire of eighteenth century castrato Giovanni Carestini, ...

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Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (2007) more music like this

performed by Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Emmanuelle Haïm (organ), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Pavol Brslik (tenor), Sonia Prina (alto), Stéphanie-Marie Degand (violin), Le Concert D'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

Handel wrote the secular oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The triumph of Time and of Enlightenment) to the text of one of his patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili, in Rome in 1707. The libretto, which doesn't stand up to close logical scrutiny, centers on Beauty, who must choose between self-indulgent Pleasure and the austerity of ...

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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2004) more music like this

performed by Alice Coote (vocals), Carolyn Sampson (vocals), Christopher Maltman (vocals), Emmanuelle Haïm (regal), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Emmanuelle Haïm (organ), Ian Bostridge (vocals), Les Sacqueboutiers, Lorenzo Regazzo (vocals), Malcolm Bennett (vocals)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

After almost 400 years, you might think Monteverdi's L'Orfeo would have lost its luster. But in the right hands it can still be deeply exciting, allowing you to relive the birth of an electric and emotionally charged new art form. Emmanuelle Haïm's new L'Orfeo, starring Ian Bostridge, is that kind of experience. It combines truly electric ...

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (2003) more music like this

performed by Belinda Camilla Tilling (soprano), Cécile de Boever (soprano), David Daniels (counter tenor), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Felicity Palmer (contralto), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Le Concert D'Astrée, Paul Agnew (tenor), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Henry Purcell

Wild, passionate, and over in less than an hour, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one of the greatest operas ever composed and it has received some of the greatest performances of any opera ever recorded. And while some of them have been sung with more refinement or more fervor, few can match this performance with Susan Graham as Dido and Ian ...

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Delirio: Handel's Italian Cantatas (2005) more music like this

performed by Atsushi Sakai (cello), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Héloïse Gaillard (recorder), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Patrick Beaugiraud (oboe), Stéphanie-Marie Degand (violin), Le Concert D'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

Two decades ago Handel's early Italian-language cantatas were little known, but sopranos have discovered that they provide a top-level vocal workout while offering more than a hint of the mature Handel's genius. This disc by French singer Natalie Dessay, one of the hottest sopranos on the scene, is going to be hard to beat. Dessay shares the ...

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Monteverdi: Combattimento (2006) more music like this

performed by Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Emmanuelle Haïm (organ), Le Concert D'Astrée, Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

Maybe you've wondered about whether this could work. What happens if you drop modern operatic stars into early music? Specifically, into early music as performed by a group with such an unerring way of making seventeenth century music come alive as Le Concert d'Astrée and its conductor, Emmanuelle Haïm? Would the forces clash? Would the style ...

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Monteverdi: Combattimento [Includes DVD] (2006) more music like this

performed by Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Emmanuelle Haïm (organ), Le Concert D'Astrée, Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

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Handel & J. S. Bach: Arias (2001) more music like this

performed by David Daniels (counter tenor), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Jerome Hantai (harpsichord), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Stephanie Blythe (contralto), Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach

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Handel: Arcadian Duets (2002) more music like this

performed by Anna-Maria Panzarella (soprano), Brian Asawa (counter tenor), Emmanuelle Haïm (organ), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Juanita Lascarro (soprano), Laura Claycomb (soprano), Le Concert D'Astrée, Natalie Dessay (soprano), Patricia Petibon (soprano)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Opera: New Generation (2007) more music like this

performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (alto), David Daniels (counter tenor), Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Felicity Lott (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass), José van Dam (baritone)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Gounod, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claudio Monteverdi, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frederick Handel, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Henry Purcell, Jacques Offenbach, Jean-Philippe Rameau

This two-disc set is a sampler of operatic singers from the corporately related Virgin Classics and EMI labels, and like most such samplers it delivers a good deal less than it promises. The marketing is scattershot, for one thing: the two-disc set purports to offer both the "new generation" of singers and "greatest arias" -- whether of these ...

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Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (2003) more music like this

performed by Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Laurent Naouri (baritone), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Le Concert D'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

This is an excellent recording of Handel's "other" Acis -- an Italian cantata he composed during a visit to Naples ten years before he wrote the more famous English masque Acis and Galatea. Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée play with pathos, imagination, and impeccable style, never forgetting that, in a work for such intimate forces, ...

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The Glories of Handel Opera (2000) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Alicia Nafe (vocals), Bernadette Greevey (vocals), Emma Kirkby (vocals), Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord), Forbes Robinson (vocals), Geraint Evans (vocals), James Bowman (vocals)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Bach: Magnificat; Handel: Dixit Dominus (2007) more music like this

performed by Karine Deshayes (soprano), Laurent Naouri (bass), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (alto), Stéphanie-Marie Degand (violin), Toby Spence (tenor), Le Concert D'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach

The nuanced and lively playing Emmanuelle Haïm draws from Le Concert d'Astrée is the strongest element in this recording of Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Dixit Dominus. Its colorful, briskly articulated performance is a delight throughout, but the singing of the soloists and chorus lacks the same consistency. The chorus' sound is somewhat murky ...

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