Marco Angioloni, Il Groviglio, Christopher Lowrey, Lucía Martín Cartón – Handel: Poro, re delle Indie (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:38:29 minutes | 3,06 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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In 1731, at the height of his London fame, Handel created his 28th opera seria: a vocal pyrotechnic about the rivalry, in love and war, between Alexander the Great and the Indian King Porus.
Rage and spite, love and glory drive the extraordinary arias that Handel entrusted to two of his favourite singers: the castrato star Senesino for the title role, and the soprano Anna Maria Strada del Po as the treacherous Cleofide. It was a sign of the work’s success and the prestige of its cast. Poro was performed twenty times in 1731, a virtually exceptional figure.
The young tenor Marco Angioloni – singing the role of Alexander – brings this opera back to life with his Ensemble Il Groviglio, and a magnificent cast that would have delighted Handel!
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Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey – The Lamb’s Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:24 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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The American countertenor Christopher Lowrey founded the vocal ensemble Altera ‘to form the beating heart of professional choral music in the United States’. Now regarded as one of the finest and most enterprising choirs on the North American continent, Altera has devised this musical tour through sacred territories which focuses on epic narratives from various periods, from Renaissance music to the present day. The programme includes timeless works by Gibbons, Lotti, Scheidt and Bruckner, as well as twentieth-century compositions by Poulenc, Messiaen and others. Barber’s celebrated Adagio sits alongside the moving Salvator Mundi , taken from Herbert Howells’s Requiem . Not forgetting three world premiere recordings of works written or arranged for Altera by composers Joanna Marsh, Zuzanna Koziej, and Michael Garrepy, who has arranged Were you there?
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