Your Tuneful Voice: Handel Oratorio Arias

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Davies's quick coloratura is dazzling in the final aria, 'How can I stay when love invites?' — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: VIVAT105
Label: Vivat
Length: 67 minutes

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Excerpt, Handel: Belshazzar

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Oh Sacred Oracles of Truth

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Excerpt, Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth

Work length7:05

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Mortals Think That Time Is Sleeping

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Excerpt, Handel: Esther

Work length4:45

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Rachel Chaplin (oboe)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains

Track length4:45

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Excerpt, Handel: Alexander Balus

Work length2:35

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Mighty Love Now Calls to Arm

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Overture

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King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

I. Grave

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II. Menuet

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Excerpt, Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

No. 1, Eternal Source of Light Divine

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Excerpt, Handel: Solomon

Work length3:32

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Welcome as the Dawn of Day

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Excerpt, Handel: Semele

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Kati Debretzeni (violin)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell

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Excerpt, Handel: The Choice of Hercules

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay

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Excerpt, Handel: Jephtha

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Overture

Work length7:43

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King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

I. Andante

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II. Allegro

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III. Menuetto

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Excerpt, Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Thou Shalt Bring Them In

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Excerpt, Handel: Esther

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death

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The Triumph of Time & Truth, HWV 71

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Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

On the Valleys

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Excerpt, Handel: Esther

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Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Rachel Chaplin (oboe)
King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 6-8 September 2013
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey, United Kingdom

How Can I Stay When Love Invites

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Acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies and The King’s Consort perform an outstanding programme of Handel arias from some of the composer’s finest oratorios.

Eleven varied solo arias include ‘O sacred oracles of truth’, the delicate ‘Tune your harps’, ‘Eternal source of light’ (with supreme trumpet playing from Crispian Steele-Perkins), the melodious ‘Your tuneful voice’ and the virtuoso ‘Mighty love now calls to arm’, as well as rarities including ‘On the valleys, dark and cheerless’ and an especial jewel, ‘Mortals think that Time is sleeping’.

Iestyn is joined in two glorious duets by soprano Carolyn Sampson, including the ecstatic ‘Welcome as the dawn of day’ and the ghostly ‘Who calls my parting soul from death’.

Recorded in the well-nigh perfect acoustic of Menuhin Hall with a large and colourful orchestra, who also contribute two splendid overtures.

36 page booklet with authoritative liner note (in three languages) by renowned Handel scholar Prof. Donald Burrows, together with full texts, and 16 photos from the recordings.

Reviews

March 2014

Davies's quick coloratura is dazzling in the final aria, 'How can I stay when love invites?'

March 2014

Davies's phrasing is to be admired, spanning as it does long lines of breath control.

12th February 2014

a first class anthology of Handel arias. The singing of Iestyn Davies is a delight from start to finish and he receives ideal support from Robert King and his players.

13th February 2014

[the slow arias] allow us to appreciate Davies's extraordinary evenness of tone, his immaculate breath control and the rapt subtlety of his phrasing...the handful of virtuoso arias are delivered with terrific panache and a bravura technique that is second to none. The King's Consort under Robert King are dark-toned and admirably sensual throughout.

8th February 2014

Iestyn Davies brings a grace and calm entirely appropriate to these Handel arias...Throughout, Davies’ control is remarkable.

6th February 2014

he cherishes the words while negotiating the technical hurdles with amazing fluency and consistency of timbre...Davies’s definition of the varying moods in these arias is of an absorbing order, matched as it also is by the King’s Consort’s judicious range of colour in the orchestral accompaniments on a disc that highlights a countertenor voice in its prime.

Early Music Today

Davies is in his prime of vocal flexibility, and authoritative in modes both pious (‘O sacred oracles of truth’) and warlike (‘Mighty love now calls to arm’). Two cameos from Carolyn Sampson are, naturally, ravishing.

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