Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details

Handel: Orlando

Bejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)

B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs

Handel: Orlando

Awards:

Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im...

BBC Music Magazine, July 20144 out of 5 stars

More reviews

Handel: Orlando

Bejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)

B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs

Purchase product

Download

Audio formats guide

96 kHz, 24 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$23.50

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$18.50

320 kbps, MP3

$13.25

This release includes a digital booklet

Stream now Hi-RES 96 kHz, 24 bit
Free 30 day trial

Awards:

Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im...

BBC Music Magazine, July 20144 out of 5 stars

More reviews

About

Grammy award winning conductor Rene Jacobs, “the most exciting opera conductor of the day” (Münchner Merkur), leads the dynamic B’Rock Orchestra Ghent and an outstanding cast in Handel’s most spectacular and ravishingly beautiful creations, Orlando.

  • Release date: 12th May 2014
  • Label: DG Archiv
  • Catalogue number: 4792199
  • Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Orlando
Work length2:39:33
Ouverture
Track length4:49
1. Acc. "Gieroglifici eterni"
Track length2:21
2. Cavatina "Stimulato della gloria"
Track length1:58
Rec. "Purgalo ormai" / 3. Sinfonia / Rec. "Mira"
Track length1:46
4. Aria "Lascia Amor"
Track length3:54
5. Acc. "Imagini funeste" / 6. Aria "Non fu già"
Track length6:58
7. Acc. "Quanto diletto" / Rec. "Io non so" / 8. Acc e Rec. "Itene pur"
Track length2:53
9. Aria "Ho un certo rossore"
Track length3:09
Rec. "M'hai vinto al fin" / 10. Duettino "Ritornava al suo bel viso" / Rec. "Spera, mio ben"
Track length3:03
11. Aria "Chi possessore" / Rec. "Ecco Dorinda"
Track length4:48
12. Aria "Se'l cor mai ti dirà"
Track length3:42
Rec. "Povera me!" / 13. Aria "O care parolette" / Rec. "Noti a me sono"
Track length4:10
Rec. "Noti a me sono"
Track length2:52
14. Aria "Se fedel vuoi"
Track length4:07
Rec. "T'ubbidiro" / 15. Aria "Fammi combattere"
Track length4:01
Rec. "Angelica, deh ! lascia..."
Track length2:19
16. Terzetto "Consolati, o bella"
Track length4:47
17. Cavatina "Quando spieghi" / Rec. "Perchè, gentil Dorinda"
Track length4:43
18. Aria "Se mi rivolgo al prato"
Track length5:44
Rec. "È questa la mercede" / 19. Aria "Cielo! se tu il consenti"
Track length4:57
Rec. "A qual rischio vi espone" / 20. Aria "Tra caligini profonde"
Track length5:01
Rec. "Da queste amiche piante" / 21. Aria "Verdi allori"
Track length5:49
Rec. "Dopo tanti perigli" / 22. Aria "Non potrà dirmi ingrato" / Rec. "Dove guidate"
Track length5:37
23. Aria "Verdi piante"
Track length7:28
Rec. "Ah! perfida" / 24. Acc. "Ah! stigie larve"
Track length9:35
25. Sinfonia / Rec. "Di Dorinda alle mura"
Track length2:12
26. Aria "Vorrei poterti amar"
Track length3:06
Rec. "Più obbligata gli sono" / 27. Aria e Rec. "Unisca amor in noi"
Track length3:55
28. Già lo stringo"
Track length2:09
Rec. "Di Dorinda all'albergo" / 29. Aria "così giusta è questa speme"
Track length5:43
Rec. "S'è corrisposto un core" / 30. Aria "Amor è qual vento"
Track length5:34
Rec. "Impari ogn'un da Orlando" / 32. Aria "Sorge infausta une procella"
Track length5:43
Rec. "Dorinda, e perchè piangi?"
Track length1:49
33. Duetto "Finchè predi ancora il sangue" / Rec. "Vieni! Vanne precipitando" / 34. Acc."Già per la man d'Orlando"
Track length4:41
35. Arioso "Già l'ebbro mio ciglio"
Track length4:22
Rec. "Ecco il tempo prefisso" / 36. Acc. "Tu, che dal gran Tonante" / 37. Sinfonia / Rec. "Ah! che fate, Signor?"
Track length3:05
Rec. "Dormo ancora, o son desso?" / 38. Duettino "Per far, mia diletta" / Rec. "Che vedo, oh Dei!"
Track length3:48
39. Acc. "Vinse incanti" / 40. Coro "Tronfa oggi'l mio cor"
Track length2:55

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

July 2014

Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im brings youthful playfulness to the role of Dorinda...All is well paced under René Jacobs's direction with a fine contribution from the B'Rock orchestra.
4 out of 5 stars

6th July 2014

This Orlando is the most dramatic on disc — although not all will love Jacobs’s extremes of slow and fast tempi, or the “baroque” sound effects. Bejun Mehta’s psychotic titular antihero is superb throughout, and I’ve never heard a more thrilling — or sinister — Zoroastro than Konstantin Wolff, while Sophie Karthäuser and Kristina Hammarström blend raptly as the lovers

Early Music Today

Spectacular: the singing is both passionately committed and richly expressive, with Bejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica) and Sunhae Im (Dorinda) absolutely spellbinding.
View download progress

Download queue