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Special offer. George Frideric Handel: Ballo Per Orchestra

Overtures & Arias

Dominik Kiefer (director), Capriccio Barockorchester

Stylish playing in a lively acoustic, but I found myself longing to hear a human voice in the arias.

Special offer. George Frideric Handel: Ballo Per Orchestra

Overtures & Arias

Dominik Kiefer (director), Capriccio Barockorchester

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Stylish playing in a lively acoustic, but I found myself longing to hear a human voice in the arias.

About

Some three hundred compositions by Handel such as Overtures, dances and short instrumental interludes titled Ritornello, Sinfonia or Sarabande are hardly ever perceived as a separate category, despite appearing in his most important compositions. Such observations provided the basis for this concept album. The predominant instruments of the first Suite are the horns, which originally play an important role in the Overture to Handel's great success Samson and the operas Giulio Cesare and Ariodante. In the second group, launched by the Overture to the early opera Teseo, various solo instruments are highlighted: horn, recorder and in particular the traverse flute. The last cycle focuses on the virtuoso trumpet.

Contents and tracklist

Overture. Grave
Track length3:14
Overture. Allegro
Track length1:48
Overture. Menuet
Track length2:01
Sinfonia. Larghetto
Track length1:41
Augelletti. Adagio
Track length4:51
Vo' far guerra
Track length6:22
Sinfonia
Track length2:52
Ballo
Track length1:34
Overture
Track length4:46
Let Festal Joy
Track length4:33
Menuet
Track length1:19
Overture. Allegro
Track length1:52
Ritornello
Track length2:01
Sarabande
Track length2:28
Sprich vor mir ein süsses Wort
Track length2:02
Occhio belli
Track length2:28
Overture. Grave
Track length3:55
Overture. Andante
Track length2:09
With Honor Let Desert Be Crowned
Track length2:44
Rondeau
Track length2:10
Softest Sounds
Track length4:39
Sinfonia
Track length1:11

Awards and reviews

February 2023

Stylish playing in a lively acoustic, but I found myself longing to hear a human voice in the arias.

December 2022

Capriccio Barockorchester under their concertmaster/director Dominik Kiefer are deft hands at this repertoire and play with sensitivity and rhythmic verve... If you’re after an instrumental ‘highlights’ selection from a variety of Handel’s large-scale music this is a well-played example.
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