[.ca] Glories Of Handel Opera

The glories could have been even more...glorious:
Handel operas nowadays receive impressive stage productions and become increasingly popular. This is a great collection if you want to hear some of your favourite Italian opera singers like Sutherland, Tebaldi, Pavarotti, Evans, Berganza and Horne sing Handel. Especially the young Sutherland and Pavarotti are sensational! Considering on the other hand that Decca has now recorded many Handel operas with excellent Baroque singers, I find this recording to be somewhat outdated. It wasn't necessary for example to have Sutherland, Horne and Berganza sing two different roles when the same parts have recently been recorded by excellent newcomers like Dessay, Von Otter, or Scholl to name a few. Why stick to the past when the present has so many wonderful Handel singers? Overall however, a decent introduction to Handel's music.

Splendid Anthology from the Past 40 years:
This fine CD is an anthology of splendid performances dating from 1960-1995 by the world's most celebrated opera singers of great music by Handel, who in my opinion wrote better for the voice than anyone else. Enjoy! You will listen to it again and again.

• Alcina: Tornami a vagheggiar - Kirkby
• Orlando: Ah Stigie larve! - Bowman
• Orlando: Gia latra Cerbero - Bowman
• Orlando: Vaghe pupille non piangete - Bowman
• Riccardo Primo: Atterrato il muro cada - Mingardo
• Atalanta: Care selve ombre beate - Pavarotti
• Semele: Hence Iris hence away - Horne
• Rodelinda: Io t'abbraccio - Sutherland
• Ezio: Se un bell'ardire puo innamorarti - Forbes Robinson
• Giuliu Cesare: Piangero la sorte mia - Teresa Berganza
• Alcina: Dream Music - Kirkby
• Rinaldo: Armida dispietata! Lascia ch'io pianga - Bernadette Greevy
• Alcina: Sta nell'Ircana pietrosa tana tigre sdegnosa - Teresa Berganza
• Serse: Frondi tenere - Ombra mai fu - Renata Tebaldi
• Berenice: Si tra i ceppi e le ritorte la mia fe risplendera - Geraint Evans
• Rodelinda: Dove sei amato bene? - Marilyn Horne
• Giuliu Cesare: Da tempeste il legno infranto - Joan Sutherland