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Alan Curtis, Maite Beaumont, Il Complesso Barocco, Simone Kermes - Handel: La Maga Abbandonata (2003)

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Alan Curtis, Maite Beaumont, Il Complesso Barocco, Simone Kermes - Handel: La Maga Abbandonata (2003)

Alan Curtis, Maite Beaumont, Il Complesso Barocco, Simone Kermes - Handel: La Maga Abbandonata (2003)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:27 | 327 MB
Genre: Baroque, Opera, Vocal | Label: DHM | Catalog: 74321 95644 2

Equally known for his live performances and musicological work in establishing new performing practices for early opera, Alan Curtis enjoyed a fruitful career. A scholar, as well as a conductor and harpsichordist, Curtis edited several important works with an appreciation for authenticity, effective performance, and – in the case of opera – stage-worthiness. Several of his best recordings were issued in the 1990s and in the new millennium. Curtis studied first at Michigan State University and attained his bachelor's degree there in 1955.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Handel: Alcina (2015) [BDRip]

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Handel: Alcina (2015) [BDRip]

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Handel: Alcina (2015) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 188 min | 4,03 Gb
Audio: Italiano / AC3 / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 320 Kbps
Classical | Alpha | Sub.: French, English, German, Dutch

This Handelian diptych, the brainchild of the director Pierre Audi, was conceived in a style of great purity, right down to the costumes, the decors and the sumptuous chiaroscuro lighting. In order to replicate this aesthetic, reminiscent of Renaissance paintings, with the greatest possible fidelity, the performances, filmed in high resolution, are being released on BLU RAY only. Christophe Rousset and his orchestra convey exceptional fervor in this music, here served by the finest Handelian voices imaginable, foremost among them Sandrine Piau, who enjoyed a genuine triumph in the stage production. Nor can one forget the dramatic performance of Jeremy Ovenden in Tamerlano, or the beauty of the voices of Ann Hallenberg, Sophie Karthauser, Delphine Galou and the countertenor Christophe Dumaux. Christophe Rousset writes of this production: “…In Alcina, Handel gives us one of his most dramatically accomplished scores, in which each character follows a wholly individual trajectory, and the different “stages” of love are delicately handled.”

Alessandro de Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Telemann: Flavius Bertaridus (2012)

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Alessandro de Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Telemann: Flavius Bertaridus (2012)

Alessandro de Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Telemann: Flavius Bertaridus (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.0 Gb | Total time: 76:13+75:27+68:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88691926052 | Recorded: 2011

This live recording of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Flavius 'Bertaridus" is a rarity: The performance at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has been hailed by critics and frenetic. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described this world premiere recording under the direction of Alessandro di Marchi - one of the leading specialists in historical performance practice. As "a milestone in German music history," "Not a single scene, no aria want to miss it," the Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes to di Marchis spectacular interpretation with orchestra and chorus of the Academia Montis Regalis. The opera is entirely filled with wonderful singers like Maite Beaumont, Ann-Beth Solvang and Nina Bernstein.

Michael Hofstetter, Orquestra Simfonica del Gran Teatre del Liceu - Handel: Giulio Cesare (2006)

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Michael Hofstetter, Orquestra Simfonica del Gran Teatre del Liceu - Handel: Giulio Cesare (2006)

Michael Hofstetter, Orquestra Simfónica i Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu - Handel: Giulio Cesare (2006)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 216 min | 6,30+7,70 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: TDK | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Catalan, Italiano | Recorded: 2004

“Giulio Cesare” is one of Handel’s most fascinating and exquisite works. It was brought to Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu under the direction of Herbert Wernicke, who produced a new adaptation including fragments of other Handel operas such as “Rinaldo”, “Orlando” and “Tolomeo”. This freely-interpreted and updated version does not seek to set the opera in a contemporary context but rather to reveal hidden aspects of the work: its psychology, its history and politics. The orchestra is conducted by Michael Hofstetter and the title role is sung by the Italian-Spanish countertenor Flavio Oliver, who is one of the leading male sopranos in the world today.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Alcina (2009)

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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Alcina (2009)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Alcina (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.02 Gb | Total time: 76:24+72:16+54:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 477 7374 | Recorded: 2007

Alan Curtis' stellar recording of Alcina, which joins a respectable number of very fine recordings of the opera, is remarkable for the supple liveliness of his conducting and the outstanding performances of the soloists. The elasticity of his performance, leading Il Complesso Barocco, should dispel any misconceptions about Baroque music being rigid and metronomic. The nuanced care with which he brings out the emotional depth of Handel's writing is evident from the first measures of the overture and enlivens the entire opera.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Radamisto (2005)

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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Radamisto (2005)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Radamisto (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 829 Mb | Total time: 61:01+65:25+50:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | 5 45673 2 | Recorded: 2003

Joyce Di Donato and Maite Beaumont are outstanding as the devoted couple tormented by Tiridate’s abuse of power. Their flexible and agile voices are ideally displayed in the opening scenes of Act 2 – Beaumont’s sublime ‘Quando mai’ followed by Di Donato’s powerful ‘Ombra cara’. Patrizia Ciofi is suited to the moods of the Tiridate’s long-suffering wife. Dominique Labelle is the most rounded and ideally equipped Handel soprano in the cast: the music effortlessly trips off her tongue in ‘Mirerò quel vago volto’…

Daniele Rustioni, Orchestra of Teatro Real - Verdi: Falstaff (2020) [Blu-Ray]

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Daniele Rustioni, Orchestra of Teatro Real - Verdi: Falstaff (2020) [Blu-Ray]

Daniele Rustioni, Orchestra of Teatro Real - Verdi: Falstaff (2020) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29991 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 128 min | 34,1 Gb
Audio1: Italiano / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 16-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3818 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6480 kbps / 29,97 fps | 128 min | 7,31 Gb
Audio: Italiano / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | BelAir | Sub: English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese

Out of Giuseppe Verdi’s adoration for William Shakespeare three masterpieces were born : Macbeth, Otello and, as a musical testament, his only comedy Falstaff. But in accordance with its librettist Arrigo Boito’s wish to remove the original bourgeois farce The Merry Wives of Windsor out of the English mists and to warm it up to the clear Tuscan sun, Falstaff transforms Shakespeare’s morality play into an ode to life, to pleasure and to reconciliation that forgives human vices, rewards intelligence and virtue, and praises that spark of madnessthat gives life its flavour. Shakespeare’s most famous and subversive comic character has indeed proved to be a fertile ground for Verdi who, then eighty-years old, signed with Falstaff his most modern, most ambitious, but also wisest and ambiguous opera.

Simone Kermes Collection [12CDs] (2003-2019)

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Simone Kermes Collection [12CDs] (2003-2019)

Simone Kermes Collection [12CDs] (2003-2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 4,05 Gb | Total time: 14 h 26 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Music | Recorded: 2002-2018

Known for her idiosyncratic performances of baroque repertoire and eccentric personal style, the German coloratura soprano Simone Kermes trained in her native Leipzig, with early successes including the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition. Bach has not, however, figured prominently in her career since then – Kermes gravitated towards Vivaldi, Handel and the Neapolitan composers who wrote for the great castrati, such as Riccardo Broschi, Alessandro Scarlatti and Porpora. (She has recorded several solo albums of such repertoire for Sony, including Dramma, and Colori d’Amore – reviewing the latter, BBC Music Magazine described her as ‘a remarkable artist, charming, fascinating and boldly risk-taking by turns’).

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Antonio Vivaldi: Motezuma (2006)

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Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Antonio Vivaldi: Motezuma (2006)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Antonio Vivaldi: Motezuma (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 966 Mb | Total time: 77:00+63:41+54:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 0289 477 5996 6 | Recorded: 2005

Conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire must be kicking himself pretty hard right now. Several years ago, impatient that no trace of Antonio Vivaldi's only opera set in the New World, Motezuma, seemed to be turning up, Malgoire cobbled his own version of the work by pulling together a variety of music from other bits and scraps of Vivaldi and fitting it to the extant libretto. Lo and behold, with the rediscovery of the Berliner Singakademie collection in Russia early in this century, the manuscript of Motezuma is now a known quantity, and it turns out that Malgoire's concoction bears no resemblance whatsoever to it. Nonetheless, even he has to be grateful that this extraordinary score has been located, and now, recorded by Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco on the Archiv Produktion release Vivaldi: Motezuma.