Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Deutsche Arien (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 52:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # 7 47400 2 | Recorded: 1985
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 52:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # 7 47400 2 | Recorded: 1985
Handel’s music from his early years, in Hamburg and Italy, has a remarkably sure touch, coupled with an exuberant spirit which he seldom matched again.
The Nine German Arias are to texts by Brockes who, preparing a later edition, praised Handel for ‘[setting] them to music in a very special way’. Emma Kirkby expresses with radiant ease and simplicity the confident Pietistic message which runs through them, of God’s goodness reflected in the beauties of nature.