Author: GARDINER / ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 2001-09-18

Details: Amazon.ca A Handel/Vivaldi record: nothing very original a priori. And yet, this new recording by John Eliot Gardiner reveals a magnificent and forgotten work by Handel. It was in March 2001 that Professor Marx, from Hamburg, announced the discovery of this score in the imposing library of the Royal Academy of Music in London. Many elements were subsequently reused by Handel in other works. Musicologists do not yet know whether it was composed in Germany or later, during Handel's stay in Italy. There remains an astonishing Gloria without choir, for solo voice, both virtuoso and moving. The chosen interpreter, the young Canadian soprano Gillian Keith, winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Prize, is also a revelation who will make people talk about her, thanks to an art of vocalization and an astounding musicality. Created in Rome, the famous Dixit Dominus is a psalm with a bubbling and breathless character, which enjoyed relentless success. Like Vivaldi's Gloria, composed in 1716 to celebrate the victory of the Venetians over the Ottomans. Under the vigorous and inhabited baton of John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists shine with all their fire. --Frank Erikson

UPC: 028946259726

EAN: 0028946259726

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood