Recordings of Vivaldi operas are extremely scarce, and whether or not that will -- or should -- ever change is an open question. But excellent performances like this one make a good case for the music deserving wider appreciation, and offer a different perspective on a composer who, despite having been one of the greatest operatic composers of his ...
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) was a worthy successor to Monteverdi on the Venetian musical scene, and while his operas may not sustain the level of exalted musical inspiration and psychological depth of Monteverdi's, they come close enough to fully deserve the recognition they are beginning to receive. Like Monteverdi, Cavalli was a master ...
The biblical story of the princess Judith, who seduces and then beheads the invading Assyrian general Holofernes, has attracted composers from the early days of opera almost down to the present day with its mixture of gore, patriotic self-sacrifice, and latent feminist themes. (Go here to get in the mood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Judith ...
George Frederick Handel's first oratorio is perhaps most familiar in its English version, The Triumph of Time and Truth, but that is a later reworking of the original in Italian, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (1707), the version that appears on this marvelous 2008 Hyperion release. This complex work presents an interweaving of lyricism, ...
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