Orchestre Baroque de Montréal, Joël Thiffault - Handel: Ouvertures (1999)

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Title: Handel: Ouvertures
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: ATMA Classique
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:10:33
Total Size: 396 Mb
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Tracklist:

1 Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70: (Moderato) - Allegro - Lentement 05:31
2 Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70: Menuet 02:11
3 Handel: Lotario, HWV 26: (Moderato) - Allegro - A tempo ordinario 04:42
4 Handel: Lotario, HWV 26: (Moderato) 02:43
5 Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: (Moderato) - Allegro - Lentement 09:32
6 Handel: Alcina, HWV 34: (Moderato) - Allegro 03:12
7 Handel: Alcina, HWV 34: Musette - Un peu lentement 01:49
8 Handel: Alcina, HWV 34: Menuet - Allegro, e forte 01:12
9 Handel: Ottone, Re di Germania, HWV 15: (Moderato) - Allegro 05:14
10 Handel: Ottone, Re di Germania, HWV 15: (Gavotte) 02:06
11 Handel: Ottone, Re di Germania, HWV 15: (Allegro) 03:00
12 Handel: Athalia, HWV 52: Allegro - Grave - Allegro 06:28
13 Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV 8b: (Moderato) (Allegro) Lentement 04:18
14 Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV 8b: Largo 04:46
15 Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV 8b: Allegro 02:41
16 Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV 8b: (Menuet) 02:11
17 Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV 8b: Adagio 04:43
18 Handel: Il pastor fido, HWV 8b: (Allegro) 04:14

Performers:
Orchestre Baroque de Montréal (OBM)
Joël Thiffault

With more than seventy vocal works for the stage and the concert hall - mainly the fruit of his Italian opera period in London and his imposing series of oratorios - Handel left us as many instrumental overtures. In these is crystallized his art of immediate expression through his undeniable creative ability in translating images into sounds, in creating by genuine musical metaphors and highly personal means of pictorial suggestion, true-to-life or psychological portraits inspired by History and the Old Testament. The Montreal Baroque Orchestra, under the stylish direction of Joël Thiffault, deliver some of Handel’s most telling overtures in all their theatrical and dramatic design.