Sandrine Piau, Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari - Handel: Between Heaven & Earth (2009) CD-Rip

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Artist: Sandrine Piau, Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari
Title: Handel: Between Heaven & Earth
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Naïve
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:16:48
Total Size: 447 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

La Resurrezione Hwv 47
1 Aria 'Disserrative "O Porte D'Averno" 4:36

Theodora Hvv 68
2 Recative 'O Thou Bright Sun' 0:38
3 Aria 'With Darkness Deep As My Love' 3:25

A Song For St. Cecilia's Day
4 Aria 'What Passion Cannot Music Raise And Quell' 8:47

Messiah Hvv 56
5 Aria 'Rejoice Greatly' 3:52

Theodora Hwv 68
6 Largo 1:26

Alexander Balus Hwv 68
7 Aria 'O Take Me From This Hateful Light' 4:37
8 Recatative 'Forgive, O Queen' 0:29
9 Accompagnato 'Calm Thou My Soul' 0:44
10 Aria 'Convey Me To Some Peaceful Shore' 2:48

Joseph And His Brethen Hwv 59
11 Recitative 'Art Thou Not Zaphnath? Is Not Egypt Sav'd?'' 0:29
12 Aria 'Prophetic Raptures Swell My Breast' 8:07

I'allegro, Il Penseroso, Ed Il Moderato Hwv 55 6:11
13 Duet 'As steals the morn upon the night'
Tenor Vocals – Topi Lehtipuu

Solomon Hwv 67
14 Symphony ('The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba') 2:49

I'allegro, Il Penseroso, Ed Il Moderato Hwv 55
15 Accompagnato 'First And Chief On Golden Wing' 0:49
16 Aria 'Sweet bird' 12:40

Concerto Grosso In B Flat Major, Op.3 N.2 Hwv 313
17 Largo 2:40

Samson Hwv 57
18 Aria 'Let The Brihght Seraphims' 5:10

Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno Hwv 46a
19 Accompagnato 'Pure Del Cielo' 1:00
20 Aria 'Tu Del Ciel Ministro Eletto' 5:25

Performers:
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Topi Lehtipuu (tenor)

Accademia Bizantina
Stefano Montanari (first violin and conductor)

Luka Marzana (trumpet on track 01, 18), Jonathan Pia (trumpet on track 01), Marko Frezzato (cello on track 04, 17), Alberto Guerra (bassoon on track 13), Molly Marsh (oboe on tracks 13, 14, 17), Emiliano Rodolfi (oboe on track 14), Marcello Gatti (flute on track 16), Paolo Ballanti (cello on track 17), Stefano Montanari (violin on track 20)

Recorded in December 2008 in the church of San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo (Italy)
Release Date: September 29, 2009

French soprano Sandrine Piau, despite her frequent appearances on Baroque recordings, may not seem a first choice for the sheer athleticism of Handel, but wait until you hear her. Piau substitutes grace, precision, and sheer beauty for brawn, and the results are astonishing. She chooses arias ideally suited to her talents. "Rejoice greatly," from Messiah, is full of spiky flash, and lengthy pieces like "Prophetic raptures swell my breast" (track 12), from Joseph and His Brethren, are beautifully developed, with Piau sliding with impossible smoothness into high notes in the later stages. Passagework in faster pieces is a shower of bright sparks, while in "Sweet bird," from L'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato (track 16), you will become deliciously disoriented after a while as to whether it is Piau or one of the instruments providing the bird effects. The Accademia Bizantina under violinist/director Stefano Montanari provides the more conventional zip that lets Piau's subtler approach weave its remarkable spell. With the usual striking graphics from Naïve and excellent notes unpacking the album's theme of the interpenetration of sacred and secular in Handel's oratorio-heavy world, this is a superb vocal recording. If you had to complain of one thing, it's that there's a slight disconnect between sound and syntax in Piau's treatment of English, but with beauty like this you won't care. Texts are in French, English, and Italian, where that is the original.

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