Julia Lezhneva: Handel

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The voice itself is a staggeringly lovely instrument, possessing as it does a youthful purity that at the same time admits to an intoxicating creaminess hinting at something altogether less innocent.... — Opera, March 2016 More…

Release Date: 6th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: 4786766
Label: Decca
Length: 69 minutes

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Handel: La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47 / Parte Prima

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno"

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Handel: Rodrigo, HWV 5 / Act 1

Work length9:07

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Per dar pregio all’amor mio"

Track length9:07

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Excerpt, Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a

Work length6:33

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Lascia la spina cogli la rosa"

Track length6:33

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Excerpt, Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232

Work length2:48

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

Tecum principium in die virtutis

Track length2:48

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Excerpt, Handel: Agrippina

Work length3:52

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Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

Sinfonia

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Handel: Salve Regina, HWV 241

Work length12:34

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

Salve Regina

Track length3:15

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Ad te clamamus

Track length3:45

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Eia ergo, advocata nostro

Track length3:28

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O clemens, o pia

Track length2:06

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Handel: Agrippina, HWV 6 / Act 2

Work length6:31

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Pensieri, voi mi tormentate!"

Track length6:31

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Excerpt, Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a

Work length3:56

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Un pensiero nemico di pace"

Track length3:56

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Excerpt, Handel: Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122

Work length5:55

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Felicissima quest'alma"

Track length5:55

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Excerpt, Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a

Work length13:34

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Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Thomas Meraner (oboe), Marco Bianchi (violin), Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Recorded: 2015-01-10
Recording Venue: Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, Cremona

"Come nembo che fugge col vento"

Track length5:04

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"Pure del cielo intelligenze eterne"

Track length1:18

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"Tu del Ciel ministro eletto"

Track length7:12

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The emphasis for this album is very much on youth and prodigious talent: at 25, Julia Lezhneva is ideally suited to the soprano arias of the young Handel, who arrived in Italy from Germany as a 21 year old at the beginning of the 18th century.

She has the perfect partners in Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini whose recordings of music from the Italian baroque are celebrated for their “fizzing virtuosity” and “exquisite cushion of sound” (The Independent). For some tracks the orchestra is led by Dmitry Sinkovsky, the extraordinary Russian violinist and one of today’s most versatile Baroque musicians.

The music encompasses the best of Handel’s operatic and religious works from his years in Florence and Rome: the operas Rodrigo and Agrippina and the oratorios Il Trionfo and La Resurrezione as well as the complete Salve Regina and soprano solo from Dixit Dominus. Best known is the radiant “Lascia la spina” from Il Trionfo and its later incarnation as “Lascia ch'io pianga” from the opera Rinald.o

The recording was made in the famously musical and historic Italian city of Cremona in the beautiful auditorium of the Museo del Violino.

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March 2016

The voice itself is a staggeringly lovely instrument, possessing as it does a youthful purity that at the same time admits to an intoxicating creaminess hinting at something altogether less innocent. And if you want an unforgettable example of that here try ‘Felicissima quest’alma’ from Apollo e Dafne, where apparent artlessness is undermined by Lezhneva’s weightlessly floated but subtly nuanced lines. These are indeed sounds to ravish the senses!

12th November 2015

Lezhneva’s bell-like soprano is one of the most exciting emerging voices around, and she doesn’t disappoint in this recital of early Handel. Surely no instrumentalist’s fingers can move faster than Lezhneva’s vocal cords; she is able to somersault with the violin, hold her tone straight like the oboe, and then out-trill both of them. So there is lots to admire here – but also lots to love.

12th November 2015

Her long-held notes in “Per dar pregio all’amor mio” are unwavering, while the fluttering coloratura passages separating them are positively birdlike; and the clarity and power of her intonation in “Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno” is quite outstanding. Lezhneva proves equally adept at secular and sacred demands

New York Times 24th November 2015

in “Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno,” the opening track of this impressive but curiously aloof recording, the young Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva runs circles around the instrumentalist with her pert and fleet coloratura.

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