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Handel: Ottone

Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), Lauren Snouffer (Teofane), Pavel Kudinov (Emireno), Ann Hallenberg (Gismonda), Xavier Sabata (Adalberto), Anna Starushkevych (Matilda)

Il Pomo d’Oro, George Petrou

Handel: Ottone

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The leading man is Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), his tone keen, flexible and brilliant…[Xavier Sabata] brings emotionality and intelligence to the role of Adalberto…Ann Hallenberg as Gismonda,...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20174 out of 5 stars

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Handel: Ottone

Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), Lauren Snouffer (Teofane), Pavel Kudinov (Emireno), Ann Hallenberg (Gismonda), Xavier Sabata (Adalberto), Anna Starushkevych (Matilda)

Il Pomo d’Oro, George Petrou

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The leading man is Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), his tone keen, flexible and brilliant…[Xavier Sabata] brings emotionality and intelligence to the role of Adalberto…Ann Hallenberg as Gismonda,...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20174 out of 5 stars

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Handel’s Ottone, re di Germania is presented here in a new recording by Max Emanuel Cencic and a superb cast, under the baton of George Petrou with Il Pomo d’Oro.

Premiered in London in 1723, Ottone was one of Handel’s most successful operas during his lifetime. This rare recording breathes new life into one of the master’s greatest works.

Also featuring three “bonus” arias performed in the 1726 revival.

  • Release date: 26th May 2017
  • Label: Decca
  • Catalogue number: 4831814
  • Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Ottone, HWV 15
Work length3:22:31
a) Lentement - Allegro
Track length3:20
b) Gavotte
Track length1:20
"Pur che regni il figlio amato"
Track length2:55
"Chi più lieto è di me"
Track length2:21
"La speranza è giunta in porto"
Track length2:59
"Vien di Romano inclita figlia"
Track length1:26
"Bel labbro formato per farmi beato"
Track length4:21
"È tale Otton?"
Track length1:09
"Falsa imagine, m’ingannasti"
Track length6:35
Concerto
Track length2:32
"Te, che assalir le nostre navi osasti"
Track length1:30
"Del minacciar del vento si ride"
Track length4:03
"Tutto a più liete cure"
Track length2:48
"Ritorna, o dolce amore, conforta questo sen"
Track length4:14
"Anch’io sperai"
Track length0:35
"Di resti pui così"
Track length6:04
"Tu la madre d’Otton?"
Track length1:57
"Pensa ad amare"
Track length3:23
"Adelaide, di cui con tanta lode; Indietro, indietro"
Track length1:00
"Stenti la Bianca mano"
Track length1:10
"Giunge Otton?"
Track length0:38
"Affanni del pensier, un sol momento"
Track length7:14
Sinfonia
Track length0:10
"Cedi il ferro, o la vita"
Track length0:52
"Tu puoi straziarmi"
Track length2:15
"È di più mio rival?"
Track length0:47
"Dell’onda ai fieri moti"
Track length3:18
Sinfonia
Track length0:29
"Per breve spazio a me colui "
Track length1:37
"Lascia, che nel suo viso"
Track length3:23
"Ah! che più non resisto"
Track length1:56
"Ah! tu non sai quant’il mio cor sospira"
Track length5:07
"Ben a ragion Matilda"
Track length1:05
"Veni, o figlio"
Track length6:55
"Spera simi dice"
Track length5:10
"Quegli, è certo il mio sposo"
Track length2:44
"All’orror d’un duolo eterno il mio amore"
Track length3:36
"O illustre Teofane"
Track length1:24
"Alla fama, dimmi il vero"
Track length3:12
"Con gelosi sospetti"
Track length0:32
"Dopo l’orrore"
Track length5:17
"O grati orrori"
Track length2:29
"S’io dir potessi al mio crudele"
Track length5:10
"Del gran sasso"
Track length1:09
"Le profonde vie dell’onde"
Track length2:10
"Odo gente"
Track length2:04
"Deh! non dir, che molle amante"
Track length3:25
"Già d’ogni interno"
Track length1:11
"Odo il suono"
Track length0:55
"Notte cara"
Track length4:25
"Dove sei? Dolce mia vita!"
Track length4:12
"Già t’invola"
Track length1:54
"Trema, tiranno"
Track length2:33
"lo son tradito"
Track length1:27
"Tanti affanni"
Track length5:45
"Empi, al vostro attentato"
Track length0:52
"D’inalzar i flutti"
Track length3:49
"Perchè in vita tornai"
Track length1:06
"Temerario pirata"
Track length0:54
"Si, mi traete alme"
Track length0:48
"Benchè mi sia crudele"
Track length3:58
"Deh! ti trattiene"
Track length1:48
"Nò, non temere, o bella!"
Track length3:26
"Pur cangiasti alla fin"
Track length0:37
"Gode l’alma consolata"
Track length4:26
"Uno de’ servi miei"
Track length1:45
"Nel suo sangue, e nel tuo pianto"
Track length2:32
"Matilda, arresta si piede"
Track length2:09
"Frena, crudel"
Track length0:43
"A’ teneri affetti"
Track length3:41
"Ma qual caso"
Track length1:24
"Faccia ritorno l’antica pace"
Track length1:33
"Cervo altier"
Track length4:20
"Io sperai trovar riposo"
Track length5:38
"Un disprezzato affetto"
Track length4:50

Awards and reviews

September 2017

The leading man is Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), his tone keen, flexible and brilliant…[Xavier Sabata] brings emotionality and intelligence to the role of Adalberto…Ann Hallenberg as Gismonda, menacing, imperious and agile; Anna Starushkevych as Matilda, tender and magnanimous; Pavel Kudinov as Emireno, darkly handsome of tone…you’ll wonder why Ottone remains relatively obscure
4 out of 5 stars

September 2017

Petrou draws rhythmically animated, sensitively coloured playing from the crack Italian band...The cast is uniformly strong...Cenčić, with his unusually powerful, sensuous countertenor, rescues [Ottone] from self-regarding wimpishess. ..this new recording is emphatically the version to have of an opera whose dramatic flaws are redeemed by magnificent individual scenes and any number of good tunes.

26th May 2017

Cenčić lends his ripe countertenor to the title role of a relatively neglected Handel opera and leads a performance to relish...Hallenberg all but upstages everyone around her...George Petrou’s orchestra offers eloquent and elegant support throughout.
4 out of 5 stars
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