Rudolph Palmer, Brewer Baroque Chamber Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: Siroe (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 774 Mb | Total time: 55:29+52:10+53:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Newport Classic | # NCD 60125 | Recorded: 1989
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 774 Mb | Total time: 55:29+52:10+53:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Newport Classic | # NCD 60125 | Recorded: 1989
''Siroe'' (1728), the Italian opera that the huge popularity of ''The Beggar`s Opera'' drove from the London stage (and nearly ruined poor Handel), is hardly less fascinating. The plot resembles that of ''King Lear'' and is buoyed along by some of the most subtle and varied music Handel ever wrote for the theater. Again, the realization by members of Palmer`s ''stock company''