Sandrine Piau – Handel: Enchantresses (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sandrine Piau – Handel: Enchantresses (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:18 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Handel is one of Sandrine Piau’s cult composers, and everyone has vivid memories of her magnificent Alcina on DVD (ALPHA715): ‘Where once I portrayed light-hearted, pirouetting heroines, this new album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women.’. . . ‘Queens, sorceresses, sirens . . . we were attracted by the musical and emotional intensity of the hopes, disappointments and sufferings of these women, not forgetting the malice or cruelty that they also know how to deploy’, continues Jérôme Correas, the soprano’s longstanding musical partner and conductor of Les Paladins. With Almirena, Cleopatra and Alcina, Handel explores all the facets of these defeated heroines, whose boldly delineated characters live once more in Sandrine Piau’s passionate interpretation.

Tracklist:

01. Les Paladins – Lotario, HWV 26: Aria “Scherza in mar la navicella” (05:50)
02. Les Paladins – Rinaldo, HWV 7a : Aria “Il vostro maggio” (03:08)
03. Les Paladins – Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17: Aria “Da tempeste” (06:30)
04. Les Paladins – Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6: I. Larghetto affetuoso (03:22)
05. Les Paladins – Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17: Recitativo “E pur così” (00:51)
06. Les Paladins – Giulio Cesare In Egitto, HWV 17: Aria “Piangerò la sorte mia” (06:32)
07. Les Paladins – Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6: II. Allegro (03:10)
08. Les Paladins – Lucrezia, HWV 45 : Aria “Alla salma infedel” (03:01)
09. Les Paladins – Alcina, HWV 34 : Aria “Ah! mio cor!” (11:50)
10. Les Paladins – Amadigi Di Gaulo, HWV 11 : Overture (03:31)
11. Les Paladins – Amadigi Di Gaulo, HWV 11 : Aria “Desterò dall’empia Dite” (06:28)
12. Les Paladins – Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 6: I. Larghetto e affettuoso (03:30)
13. Les Paladins – Alcina, HWV 34: Aria “Tornami a vagheggiar” (04:46)
14. Les Paladins – Alcina, HWV 34: Aria “Lascia ch’io pianga” (04:44)

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