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Composer:
George Frideric Handel

Artist(s):
Ian Bostridge

Conductor:
Harry Bicket

Background: Handel has always been an important part of Ian Bostridge's singing life. This recording partly sprung from his early roots in singing the oratorios and his familiarity with past British singers who made the Handel tenor a cultural fixture. The repertoire is a mixture of English and Italian language arias from both opera and oratorio.

Bostridge has commented that even Handel himself would not have minded him 'stealing' arias for this album which were not originally written for the tenor voice, as octave transposition was a practise commonly used by Handel. For example he re-used the aria 'Dopo Notte', originally written by him for castrato voice in Ariodante, as a tenor aria in one of his later operas.

It is Bostridge's aim to put the spotlight back on the Handel tenor with this album, whilst he also attempts to represent with the programme Handel's 'ability to recreate himself while remaining essentially the same'.

CATALOGUE NR: 3822432
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.25
RELEASE DATE: 16-Jul-2007

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Great Handel
TRACKS: Semele : Where E're You Walk. Jephtha : Comfort Ye. Messiah : Ev'ry Valley. Fronde tenere. Serse : Ombra mai fu. Acis & Galatea : Love Sounds the Alarm / Love in Her Eyes. Acis & Galatea : Happy We (duet with Kate Royal). Samson : Scherza Infida. Ariodante : Doppo notte. Samson : Total Eclipse. L'Allegro : As Steals the Morn (duet with Kate Royal). Hide though thy hated beams. A father offering up his only child. Jephtha : Waft her angels through the sky.
ORCHESTRA: Age of Enlightenment Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Harry Bicket
ARTISTS: Ian Bostridge      

- Proms-2007 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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