A French team takes on Handel's greatest Italian cantatas

A French team takes on Handel's greatest Italian cantatas

‘Haïm’s vision gives this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity, as if recorded live in concert. You might think you know these cantatas, but this is a performance to make you think again.’

 

Handel

Aminta e Fillide; Armida abbandonata; Trio Sonata in B minor; La Lucrezia

Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo-soprano); Le Concert D’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm

Erato 9029563362   96:10 mins (2 discs)

Freya Parr

Published: January 22, 2019 at 11:12 am

‘Haïm’s vision gives this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity, as if recorded live in concert. You might think you know these cantatas, but this is a performance to make you think again.’

Handel

Aminta e Fillide; Armida abbandonata; Trio Sonata in B minor; La Lucrezia

Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo-soprano); Le Concert D’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm

Erato 9029563362 96:10 mins (2 discs)

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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