AKADEMIE FÜR ALTE MUSIK BERLIN & CHRISTOPHER AINSLIE
Handel: Arias for Counter-Tenor
Christopher Ainslie
Countertenor
Members of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and students of the Barenboim-Said Academy
Thomas Arne
Overture from „The Judgement of Paris“
George Frideric Handel
"Otton, Otton" – "Voi che udite il mio lamento" (from Agrippina)
George Frideric Handel
Overture from Alcina
George Frideric Handel
"Gia l’ebro mio ciglio" (from Orlando)
George Frideric Handel
Suite from Radamisto
George Frideric Handel
"Vivi tiranno" (from Rodelinda)
William Boyce
Symphony in C major Op. 2 No. 3
George Frideric Handel
"T'amai, quant'il mio cor" (from Amadigi di Gaula)
George Frideric Handel
"Pena tiranna" (from Amadigi di Gaula)
Charles Avison
Concerto grosso No. 5 in D minor (after Domenico Scarlatti)
George Frideric Handel
"Stille Amare" (from Tolomeo, re d'Egitto)
Countertenor Christopher Ainslie—who made his debut with the Boulez Ensemble last season—and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin present a selection of arias from the operas of George Frideric Handel that celebrate the joys and sorrows of love. The musicians are joined by students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie who will work with the ensemble for first-hand training in historical performance practice. Instrumental pieces by Handel’s London contemporaries frame the operatic excerpts.
Approximate running time: 1h 45m with one intermission
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