Tomáš Král, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra & Jarosław Thiel - Kings in the North (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Northern Europe was a fertile ground for lyrical music: it has borrowed many memorable historical figures but is also indebted to it for many masterpieces by Baroque composers. Handel and Bach come to mind, of course, but we would be forgetting the Heinichen, Schürmann, Keiser and Telemann, whose brilliant opera music is so rarely performed. Many of them have portrayed monarchs, terrible or majestic, in their operatic works - roles that, unlike their southern colleagues, the composers of the Septentrion do not hesitate to entrust to lower voices.

The baritone Tomas Kral, who has been performing brilliantly for several years on international stages, takes on these different roles with equal ease, sometimes portraying the torment of a remorseful Nero (“Ach! Nero ist nicht Nero mehr!… Erstaune, sichrer Kreis der Welt” Keiser, Octavia), the despair of Sigebert (“Ich muss schweigend von dir gehen” Keiser, Fredegunda) or the ridiculous fatuity of Telemann’s imaginary tyrant, Damon (“Ihr krachenden Klüfte…”).

Mixing key arias of the repertoire (Rodelinda, Almira, Riccardo Primo…) and little-known treasures, the young baritone and the musicians of the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra offer a high-flying recital, between virtuosity and emotion.

Tracklist:
1. Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Alfred: Overture (02:48)
2. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Rodelinda, HWV 19: Tirannia gli diede il regno (Garibaldo) (02:42)
3. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Festa musicale, BeRi 32: Datti pace, alma reale (Federico I di Svezia) (05:11)
4. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Ludovicus Pius, oder Ludewig der Fromme: Dich soll der Freiheit Gold bekrönen (Ludovicus Pius) (06:15)
5. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Fredegunda: Ich muss schweigend von dir gehen (Sigibert) (04:35)
6. Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Almira, HWV 1: Courante (01:12)
7. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – La pace di Kamberga, S. 19: Si teme (Primislao) (04:25)
8. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – La fede ne' tradimenti: Questo mar (Garzia) (05:27)
9. Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Ottone, re di Germania, HWV 15: Concerto (02:46)
10. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra, HWV 23: Dell'empia frode il velo (Berardo) (04:16)
11. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Croesus: Gotter, übt Barmherzigkeit! (Croesus) (04:26)
12. Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Almira, HWV 1: Menuet (01:14)
13. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Octavia (Die römische Unruhe, oder Die edelmühtige Octavia): Ach! Nero ist nicht Nero mehr!… Erstaune, sichrer Kreis der Welt (Nero) (07:50)
14. Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon, TWV 21:8: Chaconne comique (02:32)
15. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon, TWV 21:8: Ihr krachenden Klüfte (Damon) (02:57)
16. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Pastorelle en Musique, TWV deest: Intrada (02:49)
17. Tomáš Král, Jaroslaw Thiel & Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra – Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten!, BWV 214: Kron und Preis gekrönter Damen (Fama) (04:38)


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