Handel: Israel In Egypt

Performers: Sean Watson (Baritone), Jason Nedecky (Baritone), Eve Rachel McLeod (Soprano), Nils Brown (Tenor), Peter Mahon (Countertenor), Bud Roach (Tenor), Jennifer Enns Modolo (Mezzo Soprano), Jennie Such (Soprano), Laura Albino (Soprano)
Conductor: Kevin Mallon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Aradia Baroque Ensemble

Though considered a failure in Handel’s times, Israel in Egypt is anything but. Had it been written as an opera, rather than an oratorio, I am sure it would have been Handel’s greatest triumph. With the universally know libretto – 10 plagues, burning bush and parting of the Red Sea – great choruses and some of the best arias, it would have given Aïda a run for its money. As is, it is a great showcase for Aradia’s and Kevin Mallon’s abilities.
- excerpt from Wholenote Magazine review, July 2008

One of the most exciting new groups to emerge in the early music world, the Toronto-based Aradia Ensemble specialises in presenting an eclectic blend of orchestral, operatic and chamber music played on original instruments. The group records for Naxos, for whom it has made more than twenty recordings. With its Artistic Director is Kevin Mallon the ensemble has toured internationally and has a busy local concert season at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. They have made two music videos, one film soundtrack, have collaborated with Isadora Duncan Dancers and Baroque dancers, have co-produced opera and worked with Balinese Gamelan.

While focusing heavily on the repertoire of seventeenth-century France and England, Aradia also performs works by the Italian and German masters of the baroque, as well as contemporary pieces commissioned by the group.

In July 2000 Aradia was the featured ensemble in residence at the New Zealand Chamber Music Festival and in July 2003 performed at Musica nel Chiostro in Tuscany. According to Robert Graves, Aradia is the Estruscan name for the goddess Artemis, twin sister of Apollo. She was sent by the gods to teach mankind to order the music of the natural world into song.

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