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<< -- 4 -- Robert Anderson MUSICAL DELIGHTS
Act 3 offers a last fling for the wicked ones in a superb duet 'Al trionfo
del nostro furore' [listen -- CD3 track 9, 0:00-1:28].
Bluster as they will, there is no chance that their cause can prevail, and the
opera ends with the happiest of choral reconciliations between Christians and
pagans [listen -- CD3 track 18, 0:00-1:25]. There is
little point in pretending that Rinaldo makes much dramatic sense or is
any sort of commentary on the First Crusade, and it is frustrating that some of
the more sensational effects occur in secco recitative. But as an anthology
of what Handel could offer to the connoisseurs of London the day after his
twenty-sixth birthday, it is brim-ful of musical delights. Singers and orchestra
give a performance of vitality and appropriate style under the watchful direction
of René Jacobs.
Copyright © 18 June 2003
Robert Anderson, Egypt
Handel: Rinaldo
HMC 901796.98 DDD Stereo NEW RELEASE (3 CDs) 67'28"/74'56"/50'35" - TT 193' 2003 harmonia mundi
Vivica Genaux, soprano (Rinaldo); Miah Persson, soprano (Almirena); Inga Kalna, soprano (Armida); Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor (Goffredo); James Rutherford, baritone (Argante); Christophe Dumaux, countertenor (Eustazio); Dominique Visse, countertenor (Mago cristiano); Freiburger Barockorchester; René Jacobs, director
Georg Friedrich Haendel: Rinaldo - Opera seria in three acts (1711) |
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