Handel: Orlando

Christophe Dumaux (Orlando), Elena de la Merced (Angelica), Jean Michel Fumas (Medoro), Rachel Nicholis (Dorinda) & Alain Buet (Zoroastro) Grande Ecurie & Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire

Recorded live théâtre municipal de Tourcoing, 4/3/2008

In his setting of Orlando (drawn from Tasso’s Orlando furioso) Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. Orlando’s mad scene and his slumber aria are among the composer’s most striking creations. Everything in the opera arouses admiration: the extremely varied scoring, the exuberant vocal writing, the rhythmic invention, and the supple melodies. Includes an essay on opera seria, or not so seria, by Baroque pioneer Jean-Claude Malgoire, himself

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