Handel - Alessandro (George Petrou, Max Emanuel Cencic, Karina Gauvin) [2012]

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Handel - Alessandro (George Petrou, Max Emanuel Cencic, Karina Gauvin) [2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 3cd, 941.51 MB
Classical | Label: DECCA | Catalog Number: 4784699 | CD1:78’07; CD2:66’04; CD3:45’55

Handel’s ninth major opera for London, Alessandro was written as a showcase for the “Rival Queens”, the two famous Italian sopranos – Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni – whose supposed enmity, both personal and professional, not only generated good publicity for Handel’s latest opera but also added extra dramatic frisson to the two divas’ jealous clashes on stage.
Still something of a rarity even in this heyday of the Handel revival, Alessandro has only ever been recorded twice before over the past 30 years, and never previously with such a starry trio of singers in the three lead roles.
Marking the start of an exciting new partnership with the sensational Croatian counter-tenor Max Emanuel Cencic (and his company Parnassus Arts), this new recording stars Cencic himself as Alexander the Great (a role originally sung by the legendary castrato Senesino), with acclaimed French Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin as the Scythian princess Lisaura, and the sensational young Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva – making her debut appearance as Decca’s latest exciting solo signing – in the role of Roxana, the Persian princess who finally wins the conqueror’s heart.
Recorded at the Megaron concert hall in Athens, this new recording of Handel’s classical epic features the period instruments of Armonia Atenea conducted by George Petrou, the brilliant young Baroque specialist whose previous recordings of Handel operas (Oreste, Arianna in Creta, Tamerlano, Giulio Cesare and the pasticcio Alessandro Severo) have won numerous international awards.

Performer:
Alessandro - Max Emanuel Cencic
Rossane - Julia Lezhneva
Lisaura - Karina Gauvin
Tassile - Xavier Sabata
Leonato - Juan Sancho
Clito - In-Sung Sim
Cleone - Vasily Khoroshev
The City of Athens Choir
Armonia Atenea
Conductor - George Petrou

Tracklisting:
CD1
01. Overture
02. Atto primo. E tanto ancor s'indugia a superate questo vil muro?
03. Sinfonia e Recitativo accompagnato: Ossidraca superba
04. Recitativo: Grazie all'eterno Giove Leonato
05. Aria: Fra le stragi e fra le morti
06. Recitativo accompagnato: Che vidi! - Che mirai?
07. Recitativo: Ecco Tassile, il re dell'indi
08. Aria : Quanto dolce amor saria se non fosse gelosia
09. Recitativo: Ne' trofei d'Alessandro trionfa ancor quest'alma
10. Aria: Lusinghe piu care
11. Recitativo: Sveturato ch'io sono!
12. Aria: Vibra, cortese Amor, un altro strale
13. Solo e coro: Fra le guerre e le vitorrie fama eterna il ciel mi da
14. Recitativo: Aprestrasti, o Cleone, a sacrefici a Giove Alessandro
15. Recitativo: Dalla vittoria alla bellezza in braccio passa un felice vincitor
16. Aria: No, piu sofrir non voglio
17. Recitativo accompagnato: Vilipese belezze
18. Recitativo: Pur ti ritrovo; e perche mai partisti?
19. Aria : Men fedele, men costante finge il labbro, e non il cor
20. Recitativo: Si, lusingando ei parla, e par che m'ami
21. Aria: Un lusinghiero dolce pensiero
22. Recitativo: Tu, che Rossane adori
23. Aria: Pregi son d'un alma grande l'amicizia
24. Recitativo: Sempre del suo valor fido seguace saro
25. Aria: A sprone, a fren leggiero un nobile destriero contento
26. Sinfonia
27. Recitativo: Al magnanimo, al forte, al vincitore
28. Sinfonia
29. Recitativo accompagnato: Primo motor delle superne sfere
30. Recitativo: Figlio del Re degl'immortali
31. Duetto: Placa l'arma, quieta il petto!
32. Recitativo: Fra gli uomini e fra i Numi
33. Aria: Da un breve riposo di stato amoroso
CD2
01. Atto secondo. Recitativo accompagnato ed Arioso: Solitudine amate in cui sfogarmi
02. Aure, fonti, ombre gradite
03. Recitativo ed Arioso: Eccola in preda al sonno
04. Aria: Vano amore
05. Recitativo: Tiranna passion, lasciami in pace!
06. Aria: Sempre fido e disprezzato
07. Recitativo: Pur troppo veggio d’Alessandro
08. Aria: Che tirannia d'Amor!
09. Recitativo: Qui aspetto l'incostante
10. Aria: Alla sua gabbia d'oro suol ritornar talor quell'augellin
11. Recitativo: Vince al fin la belta
12. Aria: Risolvo abbandonar la bella che mi sprezza
13. Recitativo: Finto sereno e d'Alessandro in volto
14. Aria: La cervetta nei lacci avvolta
15. Sinfonia - Recitativo: Dopo il sublime onor delle gran geste
16. Recitativo: Oh Dei! che infausta nuova!
17. Aria: Il cor mio, ch'e gia per te tutto amore e tutto fe
18. Recitativo: Svanisci oh reo timore di tormentosa gelosia!
19. Aria: Dica il falso, dica il vero
CD3
01. Atto terzo. Arioso: Sfortunato e il mio valore
02. Recitativo: L'adulator s'appressa
03. Aria: Saro qual vento, che nell'incendio spira
04. Recitativo: La resa liberta dunque, oh Rossane, a lasciarne t'alletta?
05. Aria: Si, m'e caro imitar quel bel fiore
06. Recitativo: Sento un'interna inusitata gioja
07. Aria: Brilla nell'alma
08. Recitativo: Qual tormento crudel soffrir non fanno ambo assalendo
09. Aria: L'amor, che per te sento
10. Recitativo: Si generoso affetto degno e d'amor
11. Aria: Pupille amate
12. Recitativo: Numi eterni
13. Aria: Tempesta e calma sento nell'alma
14. D'uom fiero nel soglio si domi l'orgoglio
15. Recitativo: Chi osera traditore assalire Alessandro?
16. Aria: Prove sono di grandezza
17. Recitativo accompagnato: Spegni, oh supremo Regnator de' Numi
18. Duetto e coro: In generoso onor, bella, ti cede il cor?
19. Cara, la tua belta in me sol regnera?
20. Amico arrida il Ciel al nostro amor fedel

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