Iestyn Davies / Handel: Your Tuneful Voice - Handel Oratorio Arias (2014) [Official Digital Download - 24bit/96kHz]

Acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies and The King’s Consort perform an outstanding programme of Handel arias from some of the composer’s finest oratorios. Eleven varied solo arias include ‘O sacred oracles of truth’, the delicate ‘Tune your harps’, ‘Eternal source of light’ (with supreme trumpet playing from Crispian Steele-Perkins), the melodious ‘Your tuneful voice’ and the virtuoso ‘Mighty love now calls to arm’, as well as rarities including ‘On the valleys, dark and cheerless’ and an especial jewel, ‘Mortals think that Time is sleeping’.

Iestyn is joined in two glorious duets by soprano Carolyn Sampson, including the ecstatic ‘Welcome as the dawn of day’ and the ghostly ‘Who calls my parting soul from death’.

Recorded in the well-nigh perfect acoustic of Menuhin Hall with a large and colourful orchestra, who also contribute two

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies, Rachel Chaplin, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Carolyn Sampson, …
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort

Reviews: “Davies's quick coloratura is dazzling in the final aria, 'How can I stay when love invites?'”

“Davies's phrasing is to be admired, spanning as it does long lines of breath control.”

“a first class anthology of Handel arias. The singing of Iestyn Davies is a delight from start to finish and he receives ideal support from Robert King and his players.”

Tracklisting:

1. Belshazzar: O sacred oracles of truth by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1744; England
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 5 Minutes 1 Secs.
2. The Triumph of Time and Truth: Mortals think that Time is sleeping by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1757
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 7 Minutes 5 Secs.
3. Esther, HWV 50b: Tune your harps to cheerful strains by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Rachel Chaplin (Oboe), Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1732; London, England
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 4 Minutes 45 Secs.
4. Alexander Balus: Mighty love now calls to arm by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1747
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 2 Minutes 35 Secs.
5. Birthday Ode for Queen Anne: Eternal source of light divine by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Crispian Steele-Perkins (Trumpet), Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1713
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.
6. Solomon: Welcome as the dawn of day by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (), Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1748; England
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.
7. Semele: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Kati Debretzeni (Violin), Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1743; England
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 5 Minutes 12 Secs.
8. The Choice of Hercules: Yet can I hear that dulcet lay by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1750; England
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 49 Secs.
9. Jephtha: Up the dreadful steep ascending by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1752
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 36 Secs.
10. Israel in Egypt: Thou Shalt Bring Them In by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1738
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 15 Secs.
11. The Triumph of Time and Truth: On the valleys, dark and cheerless by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1757
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 4 Minutes 0 Secs.
12. Esther: How can I stay when love invites by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1718; Germany
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 6 Secs.
13. Jephtha: Overture: (Grave) - Allegro - (Grave) by George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1752
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 5 Minutes 8 Secs.
14. Jephtha: Overture: Menuet by George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1752
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 1 Minutes 37 Secs.
15. Samson: Overture: Andante - Adagio by George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1741
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 17 Secs.
16. Samson: Overture: Allegro - Adagio by George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1741
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 1 Minutes 37 Secs.
17. Samson: Overture: Menuetto by George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1741
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs.
18. Esther: Who calls my parting soul from death by George Frideric Handel
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (), Iestyn Davies ()
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1718; Germany
Venue: The Menuhin Hall, Surrey
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.



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