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Handel - Alcina
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Special offer. Handel: Alcina
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Handel: Alcina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings firebrand fioritura (vocal embellishment), impeccably naturalistic recitative and an inimitable everywoman pathos to the soprano title-role. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Handel Edition Volume 3 - Tamerlano, L'Allegro ed il Penseroso, etc.
RecommendedDerek Lee Ragin (Tamerlano), Nigel Robson (Bajazet), Nancy Argenta (Asteria), Michael Chance (Andronico), Jane Findlay (Irene), René Schirrer (Leone)
English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Taking Milton as his starting point, Handel illustrated in music the contrasts of mood and character between the cheerful and the thoughtful. Then, prompted by his librettist, Charles Jennens,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Choral
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Handel : Alcina [Highlights]
Renée Fleming (soprano vocals), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano vocals), Natalie Dessay (soprano vocals), Kathleen Kuhlmann (contralto vocals), Les Arts Florissants (chorus)
William Christie
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Handel: Arias and dances from Alcina & Agrippina
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
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Handel: Alcina
Joan Sutherland (Alcina), Fritz Wunderlich (Ruggiero), Norma Procter (Bradamante), Jeannette Van Dijck (Morgana), Nicola Monti (Oronte), Thomas Hemsley (Melisso)
Cappella Coloniensis, Ferdinand Leitner
Despite relatively numerous orchestral strings (and mono sound), this live concert broadcast anticipates many present-day approaches to staging Handel. —
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Handel: Alcina
Arleen Augér, Della Jones, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Eiddwen Harrhy, Patrizia Kwella, Maldwyn Davies & John Tomlinson
Opera Stage Chorus & City of London Baroque Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Handel: Alcina
Anja Harteros (Alcina), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero), Deborah York (Oberto), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), John Mark Ainsley (Oronte), Christopher Purves (Melisso)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Ivor Bolton
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Handel: Alcina
Arleen Augér (Alcina), Della Jones (Ruggiero), Kathleen Kuhlmann (Bradamante), Maldwyn Davies (Oronte), Eiddwen Harrhy (Morgana), Patrizia Kwella (Oberto), John Tomlinson (Melisso)
City of London Baroque Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
It would be hard to devise a septet of soloists more stylish than those on the reissued EMI set, with Arleen Auger brilliant and warm-toned...Della Jones stands out in the breeches role of Ruggiero... —
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